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Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    M83 Brings Their Epic Synth Rock--And a Saxophone!--to the Paramount Theatre

    M83 Thurs, April 27th, 2012 The Paramount Theatre Last time M83 played Seattle--two back-to-back shows at the now improbably small seeming Neumos--there was one minor but significant thing missing: the saxophone. The saxophone solo on "Midnight City" is without a doubt the most audacious and triump ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    A Look Back at Coachella 2012: Vol. II, Courtesy of Our Brothers and Sisters LA Weekly

    For the second weekend in a row, our friends over at LA Weekly spent the last few days rigorously covering Coachella. Below is a look at highlights from Sunday, and here is the Weekly's complete Coachella coverage Courtesy of LA Weekly By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Coachella: 5 Signs You're An Aging Hipster

    This post is courtesy of our sister paper, LA Weekly, who had a team of writers and photographers at Coachella over the weekend. We thought this post was particularly appropriate (and, yes, hit home ...) By Lilledeshan Bose Aging hipsters--the very same people Coachella targeted when it began hold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Hail Mary! This 2Pac Hologram At Coachella Is The Best! Discuss Amongst Yourselves...

    While attending Couch-ella (term credit for watching the Coachella Youtube feed from the confines of your Futon: Mark Gajadhar of Champagne Champagne), I found myself captivated by the 2Pac cameo (via hologram) during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's set last night at the festival. The projected Tupac Shaku ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Tacoma's Oberhofer Comes "Home" For a Rowdy Set at The Sunset

    By Keegan Prosser Oberhofer The Sunset Thursday, April 5 Tacoma's own Oberhofer made a triumphant return to Washington Thursday night via a show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard that felt more house party than formal concert. Having recently released their debut album, Time Capsules II, the up-an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2012

    fIREHOSE

    By Keegan Prosser Oberhofer The Sunset Thursday, April 5 Tacoma's own Oberhofer made a triumphant return to Washington Thursday night via a show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard that felt more house party than formal concert. Having recently released their debut album, Time Capsules II, the up-an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2012

    Sleigh Bells

    By Keegan Prosser Oberhofer The Sunset Thursday, April 5 Tacoma's own Oberhofer made a triumphant return to Washington Thursday night via a show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard that felt more house party than formal concert. Having recently released their debut album, Time Capsules II, the up-an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Q&A: Brad Oberhofer Talks Tacoma, Snoop, and Steve Lillywhite

    By Keegan Prosser The buzz surrounding Brooklyn-based group Oberhofer is hard to ignore: in addition to playing last month, the four-piece just released their debut LP, Time Capsules II, and are rolling through Washington for a run of shows - before hitting up Coachella in April. So what's the deal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Sasquatch! Should Sell Out Within a Week, Plus 7 Other Things We Just Learned About the Fest From Founder Adam Zacks

    Sure, it's his job to sell tickets. But Sasquatch! founder Adam Zacks has a strong track record of accurately predicting when his four-day festival at the Gorge over memorial day weekend will sell out. And it usually does. Yesterday Zacks told me that he expects the fest's four-day passes -- there a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Sasquatch 2012: The Year Indie Adult-Contemporary Broke

    The first thing I thought when I heard the line-up announcement last night was: man, Sasquatch is never going to be Coachella. That's fine--Sasquatch is smaller, prettier, more chill. And it's not just the gorgeous natural scenery, either. In recent years, Sasquatch has gotten a lot of mileage out o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Get it Together: 10 Band Reunions We'd Like to See Stop by Seattle in 2012

    With this year's Coachella announcement, we learned that, like every year, some cool artists would be reuniting for the festival-- in this case, hardcore bands At the Drive-In and Refused, as well as the U.S. debut of re-formed Brit Pop deities Pulp. Reunions these days are a common occurrence. In f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Let's Talk Odds On Pulp, Refused, At the Drive-In, and Jeff Mangum Making It Up To Seattle (Sorry, Radiohead)

    No offense, but Thom Yorke's lazy eye and Radiohead's increasingly ponderous noodling are mainstays of the touring circuit, and while it's good news they're not shirking the rest of the West Coast for Coachella, they're hardly the most interesting items on yesterday's line-up announcement for the Ca ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2011

    Lauryn Hill

    No offense, but Thom Yorke's lazy eye and Radiohead's increasingly ponderous noodling are mainstays of the touring circuit, and while it's good news they're not shirking the rest of the West Coast for Coachella, they're hardly the most interesting items on yesterday's line-up announcement for the Ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    The 75 Greatest Things You Missed at Coachella This Year

    All photos: Curtis Cartier/Seattle WeeklyThe hunt for drugs at the Sahara Tent for many was hardly a secret.​There was a massive music festival in Southern California this past weekend. Maybe you heard about it? Coach-something? Anyway, lots of stuff happened. I should know--I was there, man. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends Checking Out Moe Bar's Live Stream of Coachella, All Weekend Long

    ​Moe Bar streaming live concerts was proven to be a good time. This weekend, they're following up their LCD Soundsystem event with a live stream of all three days of Coachella Music and Arts Festival--that's April 15-17 (today, Saturday, and Sunday). SW's own uber-blogger Curtis Cartier is h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends Spending This Sunday Night With Titus Andronicus at Vera

    ​New Jersey's Titus Andronicus released one of the best-reviewed albums of 2010; a year later The Monitor is still rocking many a stereo with its raucous, galvanizing Civil War-themed punk tunes. Live, the band sounds pretty much like you'd expect them to after listening to their record--they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Why Washington State's Flag Always Flies on Saturdays

    ​Gameday is to college football as Rolling Stone is to music. Just as the venerable magazine will always send correspondents at Bumbershoot or Coachella, each Saturday ESPN's traveling circus broadcasts from the campus featuring that week's most exciting game. Which means Gameday has never gon ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2010

    Portugal. The Man

    ​Gameday is to college football as Rolling Stone is to music. Just as the venerable magazine will always send correspondents at Bumbershoot or Coachella, each Saturday ESPN's traveling circus broadcasts from the campus featuring that week's most exciting game. Which means Gameday has never gon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Bear In Heaven Makes a New Music Video With a Little Help From Eyjafjallajökull

    A nice moment during the dust cloud from Bear In Heaven on Vimeo. A lot of bands got their schedules fucked up by that damned Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland - Coachella was missing a few acts last weekend, and we had to last-minute pull a preview of The Mary Onettes' show at the Sunset. But h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Public Image Ltd American Bandstand = 10:53 of Surreal TV

    Public Image Ltd, fronted by fomer Sex Pistol John Lydon, plays Seattle tonight for the first time since 1992, taking the stage at Showbox at the Market on the fourth stop of a month-long, 24-date tour of the U.S. and Canada that kicked off last week in California with appearances on Jimmy Kimmel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    A.M. Music News: Notorious B.I.G., Guru, Sly Stone, and Other Folks We Miss

    ​-- Rolling Stone: The Black Crowes' Dec. 5 set at Showbox Sodo will be the band's last local show before they start another indefinite hiatus just two weeks later. -- MTV: Gang Starr's Guru--born Keith Elam--has died of cancer. He was 43. -- New York Times: Jon Pareles on Sly Stone's Coache ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Q&A: Derek Miller of Sleigh Bells on Treats, M.I.A., and Opening For Yeasayer

    Sleigh Bells is opening for Yeasayer tonight at Neumos.​You may not have heard the Brooklyn experimental/electronic/noise-rock band Sleigh Bells, but I'm making it my goal right now to change that. The duo of Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss is making some of the trippiest, most high-octane, exc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    A.M. Music News: New Porn at Neptune, Glee, and a Free MP3 From The National

    Jason CrepsThe New Pornographers​-- Matador: There's a listening party for the forthcoming New Pornographers album, TK, at Greenwood's Neptune Coffee at 6 p.m., Friday, April 23. There are going to be free things (beer, records, etc.), and you've gotta RSVP. -- NYT: A sold out Coachella (not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    A.M. Music News: John Prine, Hey Marseilles, Kate McGarrigle, and Sly & the Family Stone

    -- Check out the new Hey Marseilles music video for "From a Terrace," above. -- STG: John Prine's coming to The Paramount. If it's half as good as his 5th Avenue Theatre gig a couple years back, it's one not to miss. -- The Guardian: Kate McGarrigle, folk singer and mother of Rufus and Martha Wai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Coachella Lineup Announced, Short on Seattle Bands

    Tickets for Coachella go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 22. ​The lineup for the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was released this morning, and maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to be pretty short on Seattle bands. True, there are some great and diverse acts on the three-day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    A.M. Music News: John Prine, Hey Marseilles, Kate McGarrigle, and Sly & the Family Stone

    -- Check out the new Hey Marseilles music video for "From a Terrace," above. -- STG: John Prine's coming to The Paramount. If it's half as good as his 5th Avenue Theatre gig a couple years back, it's one not to miss. -- The Guardian: Kate McGarrigle, folk singer and mother of Rufus and Martha Wai ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2009

    Pixies

    -- Check out the new Hey Marseilles music video for "From a Terrace," above. -- STG: John Prine's coming to The Paramount. If it's half as good as his 5th Avenue Theatre gig a couple years back, it's one not to miss. -- The Guardian: Kate McGarrigle, folk singer and mother of Rufus and Martha Wai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Leonard Cohen Comes to Seattle!

    Leonard Cohen If you're not sitting, you better: the venerable Leonard Cohen will be in Seattle at WaMu Theater on April 23 as part of his first US tour in 15 years. Tickets go on sale March 2 at 10 a.m. and will cost anywhere from $69.50 to $250. Excuse me my teen-girl moment, but: eeeeee! When I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    2009 Coachella Lineup Announced

    Sir Paul McCartney wants YOU to buy a ticket to Coachella Coachella music festival has announced it's full lineup this morning and I can imagine the internets are going to be on fire because of it. Tickets went on sale an hour ago, so if you head to their website, which is linked above, you can pur ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2008

    The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Sir Paul McCartney wants YOU to buy a ticket to Coachella Coachella music festival has announced it's full lineup this morning and I can imagine the internets are going to be on fire because of it. Tickets went on sale an hour ago, so if you head to their website, which is linked above, you can pur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2008

    Fleet Foxes Open Sasquatch!

    Sir Paul McCartney wants YOU to buy a ticket to Coachella Coachella music festival has announced it's full lineup this morning and I can imagine the internets are going to be on fire because of it. Tickets went on sale an hour ago, so if you head to their website, which is linked above, you can pur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2008

    New Releases: First Listen Edition (Atmosphere, Portishead 12", Flight of the Conchords)

    Sir Paul McCartney wants YOU to buy a ticket to Coachella Coachella music festival has announced it's full lineup this morning and I can imagine the internets are going to be on fire because of it. Tickets went on sale an hour ago, so if you head to their website, which is linked above, you can pur ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    Can Sasquatch’s “Carbon Negative” Efforts Help Save the Planet?

    Or is it all just PR?

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2008

    This Charming Man

    The romantic rush of Swedish pop

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Coachella Expands

    The romantic rush of Swedish pop

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    Swervedriver Un-hiatus-ing!

    The romantic rush of Swedish pop

  • Music

    August 1, 2007

    Justice, the Go, and the Local Label Ready to Take on Journey

    New day rising.

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2007

    Daft Punk

    Disco

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2007

    Sasquatch Sighting

    Disco

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2007

    Rage Against the Reunion

    Disco

  • Film

    June 7, 2006

    Seattle Weekly PickCoachella

    Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., June 9–Thurs., June 15. Not rated. 115 minutes.

  • Music

    May 5, 2004

    DVD Reviews

    Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., June 9–Thurs., June 15. Not rated. 115 minutes.

  • Music

    May 28, 2003

    The Color of Money

    From TV ads to Vegas venues, Blue Man Group take their brand of performance art to the bank.

  • Music

    May 21, 2003

    Days of Our Nights

    The kids are Alright, Bumbershoot bonanzas, the death of a legend, and more.

  • Music

    February 19, 2003

    Days of Our Nights

    Coachella's definite maybes; the Faint get busy; Coldplay cry; and more.

  • Music

    May 8, 2002

    Days of our nights

    Coachella's definite maybes; the Faint get busy; Coldplay cry; and more.

  • Music

    March 13, 2002

    Days of our nights

    Coachella's definite maybes; the Faint get busy; Coldplay cry; and more.

  • Music

    February 27, 2002

    Days of our nights

    Coachella's definite maybes; the Faint get busy; Coldplay cry; and more.

  • Music

    October 20, 1999

    Death Cab turns down sex and candy; more noise please.

    Coachella's definite maybes; the Faint get busy; Coldplay cry; and more.

  • Music

    September 29, 1999

    Maximum underdrive

    An onslaught of music festivals makes for a hectic, uncertain season.

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