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COACHELLA 2013: Phoenix brings out surprise guest for headlining set
![R. Kelly joins Phoenix on stage at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Denis O’Regan/Coachella)](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rkelly3-380x252.jpg)
R. Kelly joins Phoenix on stage at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Denis O’Regan/Coachella)
Phoenix headlined Coachella Saturday and the French indie rock band brought out a special guest, too.
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COACHELLA 2013: Review of The Postal Service
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The Postal Service at Coachela 2013 (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
The Postal Service came onto the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival stage Saturday, April 13 with some mood music and a packed field for the anticipated reunion.
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COACHELLA 2013: Live coverage from Twitter
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Justice performs on the main stage at Coachella 2012. (2012/File Photo)
We’re out at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival all weekend long. Stay up to date with what we’re up to with our Twitter stream.
We also want you to be a part of it. Just use the #PECoachella hashtag (capitalization doesn’t matter) to send us photos, musings and more and we’ll give you some love here in the Audio File blog. We will be using the #PECoachella hashtag on Twitter and Instagram.
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COACHELLA 2013: Review of Portugal. The Man
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A giant beach ball gets tossed around as the sun goes down during Portugal. The Man’s show Saturday night. (Nikie Johnson/Staff photo)
Portugal. The Man wants you to listen to more Weezer.
So John Gourley announced midway through the bands’s show at Coachella on Saturday night. He tried to make that happen, ending one of the first songs, “Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs),” with a few bars of “Say it Ain’t So.”
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COACHELLA 2013: The Make-Up gets up close at Coachella
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Ian Svenonius, of The Make-Up, stands on the crowd during the band’s set on April 13, 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
The Make-Up is more than just psychedelic garage rock out of Washington, D.C–The Make-Up is an experience.
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COACHELLA 2013: Major Lazer rolls over the crowd
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Major Lazer rolls into the crowd at Coachella 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Sure, Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips did the giant beach ball thing first, but did they have vuvuzelas like Major Lazer did? Nope.
COACHELLA 2013: Anyone for the activities tent?
I’d been thinking before Coachella started that it would be fun to stop in at one of the activity tents that are set up in the campgrounds. I just had to go outside the festival grounds and back in, along the orange path, so I stopped to check out the activities tent in campground 10 around 5:30 p.m.
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COACHELLA 2013: Afternoon scenes
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People do handstands during the Dropkick Murphys. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
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Red Bull Speakeasy (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
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COACHELLA 2013: Red Bull Speakeasy lets you time travel
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A poem custom written at Coachella 2013.
One of the secret spots of the Coachella Festival is one that requires a password.
Nestled inside the beer garden nearest to the main stage, ladies dressed in Prohibition-era garb ask you to whisper a password in their ear.
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