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Al Barr of the Dropkick Murphys at the Pomona Fox in 2011. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
As I started putting together everything for the big Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival interactive map I realized I kept running into songs about boxing or referencing boxing or boxers. Some are literal, some more metaphorical.
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Coachella 2013 performer Passion Pit will headline Tachevah in Palm Springs on Wednesday, April 17. (Contributed Image)
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2013 performer Passion Pit will headline the Tachevah Block Party in Palm Springs on Wednesday, April 17 outside the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs.
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See Biggie Smalls at Coachella? Share your photo with us with the #PECoachella hashtag. (2012/File Photo)
The big news of the day is that the city of Indio approved Goldenvoice’s proposal to keep the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in town through 2030 and add two more festivals each year.
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Sheryl Crow performs on the Mane stage during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio. (2012/File Photo)
Remember last summer when everyone started freaking out about the possibility of no Coachella in 2014 and the rumors started flying about where the Coachella and Stagecoach Festivals would move to after an Indio city councilman proposed a tax on large events?
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Rock star Jesse Hughes, of Eagles of Death Metal, talks to Samanta Arteaga, 8. Eagles of Death Metal will play the Ace in Palm Springs. (Diane A. Rhodes/Freelance Photographer)
Third Man Records is celebrating the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival being in Indio for two weekends with a pop-up shop at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs
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Fans enjoy Coachella at dusk. (2007/File Photo)
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be streaming sets live on YouTube again this festival season.
The channel, at http://www.youtube.com/coachella, will be presenting performances from the first weekend of the festival, April 12-14, 2013, from the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
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Daft Punk (AP Photo)
It’s April Fools’ Day, so keep that in mind, but reader Justin Rothgeb just alerted me to a link of a video of Daft Punk on Viddy supposedly proclaiming that they’re coming to the desert.
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A hologram of Tupac Shakur was a big hit at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (AP Photo)
We are less than two weeks away from the kickoff of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The fest is always full of surprises, most notably in 2012, it was the lifelike Tupac Shakur hologram that appeared during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s set that stunned everyone.
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Get to know the Coachella 2013 artists with some unorthodox math. (Jessica Halston/Staff Artist)
I have the fourth installment of the 2013 Coachella Festival interactive infographic series for you this morning.
This week, we looked at how Bat for Lashes channels both Enya and Bjork, why the Yeah Yeah Yeahs rock so hard and the amazing powers of Reignwolf.
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Pitchfork reports Daft Punk will NOT be at Coachella 2013. (Daft Punk/Facebook)
Earlier today I posted about the most popular question I’ve received about the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival–“Will Daft Punk play Coachella?”
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