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Fans enter the Empire Polo Club grounds for Coachella 2009. (2009/File Photo)
If you purchased a shuttle pass along with passes for the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, you have until Thursday, Feb. 7 to change shuttle lines.
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Solwave is playing Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Thursday.
San Francisco rock band Solwave is coming to the Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Gordon Raphael, who has produced The Strokes, will be producing Solwave next month.
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Deap Vally (Brian Sheffield/Contributed Image)
Today’s Audio Files features two blues-influenced artists out of the greater Los Angeles area who are both playing the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Daniel Bambaataa Marley is going to be at The Barn at UC Riverside on Wednesday, Feb. 6. (Contributed Image)
Celebrate what would have been Bob Marley’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at The Barn at UC Riverside.
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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis shouts while holding the the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning the Super Bowl. (AP Photo)
Today was a really special day for me. I’m from Baltimore and I’m a huge football fan. I come from a family where the Colts’ Mayflower move 30 years ago is still a sore subject so to see my beloved team in the Super Bowl, and have Ray Lewis play his final game in it was just incredible.
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Now this is the coolest Coachella-related infographic I’ve seen yet. The folks over at JESS3 took all of the Coachella 2013 artists and looked at their “Likes” on Facebook to see how it related to where they were listed on the poster and driving ticket sales.
The broke down the list of artists into “tiers,” or lines on the poster.
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The Audio Files feature has finally returned to the blog. Between all of the festival news of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival announcement and Lightning in a Bottle moving to Riverside County, it’s been a little crazy around here.
Speaking of festivals, here are two bands playing Coachella 2013 that you need to love, especially because they feature members of Fugazi.
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Nate Barcalow leaps and twists across the stage of the Glass House in Pomona during Finch’s performance at the Glass House in Pomona on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Nearly a dozen years ago, as the latest wave of pop-punk crested, five friends from Temecula forged something edgier in the form of Finch.
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Lighting in a Bottle 2012. (Watchara Phomicinda/Contributed Image)
Earlier this week I posted about how the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved The Do LaB’s proposal for Lightning in a Bottle at the Lake Skinner Recreation Area and now I have some more information about the festival.
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Listen to Skee-Lo’s new album for free through Nov. 26. (Contributed Image)
Baltimore and San Francisco won’t be the only cities represented during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The music of Moreno Valley’s Skee-Lo will be in the spotlight during the part of the Super Bowl that the non-football fans love: the commercials.
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