DIGITAL JOURNALIST
Where’s Waldo? At weekend one of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
The video making the rounds on social media today is Jimmy Kimmel tricking Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival goers into thinking they know these made up bands. Maybe I should add these people into the “People you see at Coachella” blogs.
Continue reading
The sun sets at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Charlotte Bray/Freelance Photographer)
Now that I’ve dragged myself out of bed, I’ve been reflecting on everything relating to the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Six days, two weekends, nearly 200 performers, 60 mph wind gusts, one weird R. Kelly/Phoenix mashup.
Continue reading
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2013 (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Many thanks to everyone who used the #PECoachella hashtag for weekend two. Here are some great photos from the weekend from readers, colleagues and sources.
Continue reading
Father John Misty performs at Coachella 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Father John Misty wasn’t just a musical set at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, it was comedy in between some great California country songs.
Continue reading
OMD performs at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
OMD was one of my highlights of the entire 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, of both weekends. They were fantastic.
Continue reading
Wu-Tang Clan performs at Coachella 2013. (Charlotte Bray/Freelance Photographer)
The Wu-Tang Clan’s Sunday night set at the Outdoor Theatre was so nuts at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival that people filled the area all the way back to the Gobi Tent and Do Lab spaces, plus started to spill over near the main stage.
Continue reading
OMD performs at Coachella 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Here’s a look at how we spent our Sunday at weekend two of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. We tried to hit different things than last week.
Continue reading
Andy McCluskey of OMD dances at Coachella 2013 on Sunday, April 21. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
OMD played a pitch-perfect set you could dance to without entering the Sahara Tent on the closing night of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
Continue reading
Wu-Tang Clan performs at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Well, if you weren’t wearing a Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt today, you were probably wearing a Wu-Tang one.
The popular rap group not only filled the area designated for the Outdoor stage tonight, but out into the realm of the Do Lab, Gobi Tent, and almost reached the main stage space.
Continue reading
La Roux performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 21, 2013, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. (VANESSA FRANKO/STAFF PHOTO)
Narrowing down all the amazing photographs our Coachella team took of the performers on Sunday, April 21, wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it. Check out the “best-of” photo gallery here.
Continue reading