Music lovers, unite.Previously a 48-hour aural orgasm, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella) is a three-day (formerly a one or two-day) annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. swells to a three-day sonic rapture this year. The additional day of performances boosts the lineup at the marquee music event--held in sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel Indio, Calif. from April 27 to April 29--to more than 100 acts, including some of the most distinguished artists of our time: Bjork, Sonic Youth, the Arcade Fire Arcade Fire (often known as "The Arcade Fire") is an indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 2003 by the husband and wife team Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, the band's work features lush, anthemic arrangements and diverse instrumentation, necessitating a , Peaches, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, a reunited Rage Against the Machine, and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Rufus Wainwright takes the stage on Friday, hopefully playing "Tiergarten" and "Between My Legs," two gems from his upcoming album Release the Stars. And 23-year-old Mika, championed in the United Kingdom and the American blogosphere The total universe of blogs. See blog. , will be singing about married men and their male lovers during Coachella's Sunday closer. Queer-fronted Brooklyn, N.Y., rock quartet Grizzly Bear grizzly bear or grizzly, large, powerful North American brown bear, characterized by gray-streaked, or grizzled, fur. Grizzlies are 6 to 8 ft (180–250 cm) long, stand 3 1-2 to 4 ft (105–120 cm) at the humped shoulder, and weigh up to also performs Sunday, sandwiched somewhere between Air and Willie Nelson. The bad news? All three days are long sold out. But with music this good, it may be worth hunting for scalpers in the 100-degree heat. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion