Category Archives: Music

Wu-Tang Clan performs at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Well, if you weren’t wearing a Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt today, you were probably wearing a Wu-Tang one.

The popular rap group not only filled the area designated for the Outdoor stage tonight, but out into the realm of the Do Lab, Gobi Tent, and almost reached the main stage space.
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La Roux performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 21, 2013, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. (VANESSA FRANKO/STAFF PHOTO)

Narrowing down all the amazing photographs our Coachella team took of the performers on Sunday, April 21, wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it. Check out the “best-of” photo gallery here.
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La Roux performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 21, 2013, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. (VANESSA FRANKO/STAFF PHOTO)

Don’t miss these brilliant photos of La Roux performing Sunday night, April 21, in the Mojave Tent at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Social Distortion’s Sunday evening set as the sunshine rallied one last time over the masses at the Empire Polo Club was 50 minutes of California at the state (and the country’s) premier music festival.

With staples like “Mommy’s Little Monster” and “Story Of My Life” ringing from the main stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Social Distortion became the kings of California, punkers who have become iconic rock legends.
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Alex Clare performs Sunday, April 21, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (CHARLOTTE BRAY/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER)

Singer-songwriter Alex Clare performed Sunday, April 21, in the Mojave Tent at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
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Dinosaur Jr. performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 21, 2013. (CHARLOTTE BRAY/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER)

Dinosaur Jr. performed as the day was waning Sunday, April 21, at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. See the photos here.
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Is that the sound of surf guitar and witty lyrics? Then it must be Vampire Weekend.

The quartet played at the man stage Sunday, April 21, to a huge crowd of dancing festival goers.

The show started with a brief orchestrated overture, and quickly went into “Cousins.”

They didn’t mess around with a lot of talk, expect to pitch their upcoming album, “Modern Vampires of the City” out in three weeks.
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Fans sit and watch Dinosaur Jr. at Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre on Sunday, April 21. (VANESSA FRANKO/STAFF PHOTO VIA INSTAGRAM)

Dinosaur Jr ‘s afternoon set was like a picnic for the crowd who sat down around the Outdoor Theatre to watch the rock antics of the alternative band on the final day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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