• Coachella Sets 2016 Festival Dates at Empire Polo Grounds, Ticket Sales Details

    Coachella may have only been a month and a half ago, but the two-weekend California festival has already announced details for when it will take place in 2016 and when tickets will go on sale. Coachella will be back in Indio, California next year in its traditional two-weekend format on April 15-17 and April 22-24. Tickets go on sale sooner then you may be ready for - this Thursday June 4 at 11 a.m. PST.

  • Coachella Tweets Drop 83 Percent During Weekend Two (Because of Nicki Minaj and DMX?)

    Coachella's second weekend featured a massive drop off in social media mentions, despite being an easy sell-out, like the first weekend. Billboard reports that while 3.5 million tweets mentioned Coachella directly during the event's first rendition the previous weekend (with Nicki Minaj and AC/DC driving traffic), only 600,000 mentions went out over the past weekend. What's the story?

  • Kanye West Made Surprise Appearance During Stromae's Coachella 2015 Set For 'Alors On Danse'

    Though Kanye West was not on the bill at Coachella, he appears to have stole the show. The "Only One" rapper made a surprise appearance during The Weeknd's set on Saturday night to perform a medley of different songs including "All Day" that span the Chicago rapper's career. On Sunday he showed up once again, but to perform alongside someone rather unexpected - Belgian electro-pop star Stromae. Kanye came out as the sun had set over in the Indio valley during the Frenchman's 7:55-8:45 set to perform his verse from the remix Stromae's hit single "Alors On Danse" that gave the worldwide hit even more legs. The second and often forgotten rapper on the remix Gilbere Forte was not in attendance.

  • Coachella 2015: The Weeknd Brings Out Kanye West As Surprise Guest During Set

    As Coachella has become bigger and bigger as a festival, it is has become more about the spectacle and which artist can pull off the bigger stunt with some sort of marketing gimmick or special guest that will have more people write and talk about it over the next few days. The Weeknd understood the magnitude of his role as the final performer on the main stage at Coachella Saturday night and brought out a very special guest for the occasion. The "Earned It" crooner invited Kanye West to perform four tracks alongside him.
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