Posts Tagged ‘Coachella’

The Mars Volta have announced their sixth album, Noctourniquet, which should be hitting stores on March 27th. This endeavor is the newest set of tracks released from the band since they released their last album, Octahedron, in 2009. As with previous Mars Volta albums, the music was composed by Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and is very dramatic [...]

Apparently, Snoop Dogg will be unveiling his new cigar brand, made with “premium tobacco from the Dominican Republic,” at this year’s Coachella Festival where he will headlining alongside Dr. Dre. According to a recent press release from Snoop, he says the following: “Throughout my career I have been lucky enough to travel the world and try all [...]

Reblogged from : Now that the lineup announcement for Coachella 2012 has dropped, the SF Bay Area gets to reap the benefit of being the next closest major city to welcome artists on the Coachella bill who want to pick up extra shows. After months of speculation rightly predicted Radiohead for the headliner spot, they’ve announced a show at HP Pavillion [...]

Reblogged from : Click for full-size Coachella’s 2012 lineup has been announced on its Facebook page. Some thoughts: Radiohead is confirmed after heavy speculation, but No Doubt was a swing and a miss as a headliners guess. The Black Keys will headline Fridays, and Dr. Dre / Snoop Dogg are the totally surprising – and totally [...]

Reblogged from : There is perhaps no better case study of the Internet’s star-making capabilities than the career arc of Toronto’s Abel Tesfaye, better known to us as The Weeknd. Beginning with House of Balloons in March 2011, Tesfaye unleashed 3 mixtapes that circulated like wild fire, thanks to a public endorsement by Drake along the way. [...]

Reblogged from : At The Drive-In surprised us today with an out-of-the-blue tweet announcing their reunion in 2012. It simply read: “¡ ATTENTION ! To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silence THIS STATION IS …NOW…OPERATIONAL” After the news broke, ATDI’s official site broke under heavy traffic, but [...]

Reblogged from : Die Antwoord, the South African rap group who recorded a viral hit with their video for “Enter the Ninja” and played their first international show at Coachella 2010, now bring a series of tour dates to US soil. After a recent split from Interscope Records (in which the group rejected Interscope’s suggestion [...]