Where We Live: Empire Polo Field – Indio, CA

By Ted Maider on January 8th, 2010

We all should be familiar with this one…

Coachella 2010 = April 16-18, 2010

By Alex Young on October 8th, 2009

Save the date…

Stagecoach slashes prices, sign of things to come?

By Alex Young on November 8th, 2008

Earlier this week, GoldenVoice officially kicked of next year’s summer festival season with the lineup announcement for the 2009 edition of the Stagecoach Music Festival. But as impressive as the bill for the Indio, California based event turned out to be, it was the accompanying ticket prices which ultimately most caught our attention.
Two-day passes for [...]

Stagecoach unveils 2009 lineup

By Alex Young on November 6th, 2008

See what I’m talking about? It’s only November 6th and we already have our first major festival announcement for 2009.
Though more than six months away, the Stagecoach Music Festival announced its 2009 initial lineup earlier this morning. Scheduled to take place between April 25 and 26 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California, the [...]

Festival Outlook (Part XIX)

By Alex Young on November 5th, 2008

The days are getting shorter, the months are getting colder, and the year is all but over. This basically means two things: first, aside from a few folks down south, we’re basically in the off season of music festivals. But as depressing as the time of the year may be, do bear in mind point [...]

Festival Outlook (Part XVIII)

By Alex Young on October 8th, 2008

With the exception of a few lucky southerners, the cool sounds, overwhelming crowds, tired feet, and everything else the 2008 summer festival season brought with it, are now but all distant memories. The stages have been disassembled, the bands have moved onto smaller, much more intimate venues, and no matter how hard we try to [...]

Stagecoach to return in 2009, just two days this time…

By Alex Young on August 29th, 2008

Goldenvoice is ready to starting talking about the 2009 festival season, only not about the festivals you’d expect, at least just not yet. In an interview with The Desert Sun, festival founder/producer Paul Tollett confirmed that the country-friendly Stage Coach Music Festival will return in 2009 for a third go around, only unlike this year’s [...]

Coachella attendance figures released

By Alex Young on May 20th, 2008

Despite the late addition of Prince and anticipation leading up to reunion performances by Portishead and The Verve, this year’s recent edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, whether a result of the increasing over saturation of the market and/or a reflection of the state of the economy, failed to match last year’s [...]

The Eagles to play Stagecoach

By Alex Young on February 13th, 2008

Goldenvoice has announced that the Eagles will headline the newly added third day (Friday, May 2) of the 2008 Stagecoach Music Festival.
The Eagles–Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit–will perform current hits from their new album, Long Road Out of Eden, including the Grammy-award winning “How Long” (“Best Country Performance by Duo [...]

2008 Summer Festival Outlook (Part IV)

By Alex Young on January 4th, 2008

New name, same great posting…
Today sees major and numerous additions to South by Southwest. We’ve also included a couple more festivals after the jump.
Click here to view the master list
* = Lineup Addition

South by Southwest 2008:
March 12-16, 2008 – Austin, Texas
What we know:

R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, The Vines, The Black Keys, Jens Lekman, Vampire [...]