DIGITAL JOURNALIST
The Cure plays Coachella 2009 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. (2009/File Photo)
It’s January–that magical time of the year when the anticipation for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival lineup increases tenfold and the rumor mill goes on overload, where even a polo ball is seen as a clue to the year’s lineup.
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Lee Koch is playing Temecula this week. (Nicole Koch/Contributed Photo)
Temecula-based singer-songwriter Lee Koch is playing a special show at Sorrel in Temecula on Thursday, Jan. 10.
The show is free and starts at 7 p.m and is open to guests 21 and older.
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Particles Like Planets (Contributed Image)
Hemet’s Particles Like Planets will be opening for Life House at the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival on Feb. 16.
The band goes on at 7 p.m. and fair admission gets you into the show.
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RV’ers enjoy the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. (2010/File Photo)
As we await the information about the 2013 Coachella Festival lineup and tickets, here’s something I came across when I was writing up something on the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival’s Battle of the Bands–the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio is accepting reservations for offsite camping for the twin editions of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.
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Rival Sons performs at March Air Reserve Base. (2010/File Photo)
Here’s a band that has been around for a while, but has a killer new album out. If you like the epic blues-inspired rock that came out of the early 1970s, check out Rival Sons.
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Dave Grohl performs with Them Crooked Vultures at the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (File Photo)
I just had a thought that I wanted run by fellow Coachella festival fans out there–could the Sound City Players be a wild all-star group on the Coachella 2013 lineup?
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The Rolling Stones perform at the Prudential Center in Dec. 2012. (Evan Agostini/AP)
It’s amazing what the power of a photo and the anticipation of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival lineup can do. On Thursday, Jan. 3, Coachella posted a photo of a round object on the Eldorado Polo Club field on the festival’s Facebook page.
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Davis Fetter (Contributed Image)
When I took over the music beat from my predecessor many moons ago (back when the original MySpace was still the best way to find local music), one of the local bands that he kept raving about was Venus Infers.
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Noa James (Contributed Image)
Two Inland rappers are heading on the road this winter for the Road to Paid Dues tour.
Noa James and Curtiss King, who have been putting out some of the best music to come out of the region year after year with Black Cloud Music, will be joining Murs on the tour, which goes around the U.S. and ends at the Paid Dues Independent Hip-Hop Festival in San Bernardino in March.
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival just posted a new photo on the Coachella Facebook page of a spherical object in front of the Santa Rosa Mountains out in Indio.
Here’s my question–is it a round stone, perhaps rolling, on the Empire Polo Club field? Is it a hint that The Rolling Stones headlining rumors may be real? Is it Goldenvoice just having fun with all of the anticipation?
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