DIGITAL JOURNALIST
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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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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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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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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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.
A campgrounds activity tent is dead at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. (Nikie Johnson/Staff photo)
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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People do handstands during the Dropkick Murphys. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Red Bull Speakeasy (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
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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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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