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Robert Bose, left, 41, attaches battery-powered LED lights to balloons during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., on April 12, 2013. (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
We’re back at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for day two. Stay up to date with what we’re up to with our Twitter stream.
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Lots of free stuff is available for people who help recycle water bottles. (Nikie Johnson/Staff photo)
Did you know you can get a free bottle of cold water if you bring 10 empty bottles to be recycled?
Did you know you could get a free VIP upgrade if you bring in 1,500 empty bottles?
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The Dropkick Murphys perform at the Pomona Fox. (2011/File Photo)
Just had a chance to talk with Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphy’s, one of my all-time favorite bands. I think I’ve seen them about 15 times in non-work environments.
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The Recyclosaurus Rex at Coachella. (Nikie Johnson/Staff photo)
Have you seen the Recyclosaurus Rex yet? It eats empty water bottles. And will eventually poop them out.
It’s a project of a group called Global Inheritance that’s working with the Coachella organizers on recycling program and a bunch of other cool stuff. (Here’s some info on their bottle exchange program and the freebies available.)
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Vintage Trouble at Coachella 2013 (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
If you didn’t shake off your hangover and make your way into the festival grounds for Vintage Trouble, you missed one of the best sets of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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An artwork called Helix Poeticus, by Poetic Kinetics, travels slowly through the crowd during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., on April 12, 2013. (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
Brothers Jan Nichols, 70, and Jon Nichols, 65, are at their fifth Coachella festival. (Nikie Johnson/Staff photo)
Not everyone at Coachella is in their 20s … or their 30s … or even under retirement age.
Just ask brothers Jan and Jon Nichols.
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Suedehead performs at Coachella 2012. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
We’re back at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for day two. 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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Jurassic 5 at Coachella 2013. (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
Jurassic 5 was one of the reunion shows happening Friday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Check out our photo gallery from the band’s set on the Outdoor Theatre stage.
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The Stone Roses perform on the Coachella stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., on April 12, 2013. (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
The Stone Roses returned to the U.S. with a set at Friday night’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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