Subject: Indio

• Video Savant: Swervedriver's “Duel”

  April 22, 2008

• What You Missed Over the Weekend Part XVIII

  This weekend had so many festivals going on that both Navel Gazing and Heard Mentality were working through the weekend. First, we had Luke Y. Thompson pulling double duty blogging his little heart out at the Newport Beach Film Festival AND attending his big movie premiere in Hollywood. While Dave Segal and Erin DeWitt were off at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio listening their little ears off for our reading pleasure. Speaking of a festivals, Gustavo Arellano attended th

  April 28, 2008

• What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XVIIII

  On Saturday, Luke Y. Thompson headed to OC Weekly photographer John Gilhooley's art show at Memphis in Santa Ana, featuring a slew of OC Weekly covers beautifully displayed on a chartreuse wall and printed on glossy, over-sized paper (oh, the glory of glossy!). And across the street from Gilhooley's show was an exhibition where casts had been made from the boobs of the OC Rollergirls team, and painted different creative ways. See kids? Art can be fun! Our Art Director, Kelly Lewis, played volle

  May 5, 2008

• Coachella, Stagecoach Dates Announced

  Goldenvoice announced today that next year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - the world famous annual haven of indie rock, electronic music and sweating at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio - will take place Friday, April 17, Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19. Yes, that's the third weekend in April, not the fourth weekend like it's always been in the past. OK, sure, it was the first weekend of May in 2004, but close enough. And in 1999 it was in October, but that was the show's fi

  October 6, 2008

• Skie Bender

  February 3, 2000

• Wondering About Nocturnal

  September 21, 2000

• Coachella Rumblings

  January 25, 2001

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 16, 2002

• Hella Coachella

  May 8, 2003

• Numb at NAMM 2004

  January 22, 2004

• Kevin Costner (Yes, That Kevin Costner) Added to Stagecoach

  Kevin "Swing Vote" Costner--actor, Academy Award-winning director, former Orange County resident and apparent musician--has been added to the line-up for Stagecoach, "California's County Music Festival" (the "country Coachella;" it takes place on the Empire Polo Club in Indio the weekend after the big C).Costner fronts a band called Kevin Costner and the Modern West; as far as rootsy musical projects from middle-aged actors, it's better than Val Kilmer's stuff, at least. Costner's debut album, U

  December 11, 2008

• So Many Awesome Pre-Coachella Shows Coming to Glass House

  Christopher VictorioFrom the Oct. 30 Jenny Lewis concert at the Orpheum in Los Angeles.They have hotels in Pomona, right? You might want to invest on one for the week of April 13, where the Glass House is taking advantage of their proximity to Indio with a stellar slate of boner-shattering acts coming to the venue before Coachella kicks off that weekend.

  February 25, 2009

• Nothing's Shocking: Amy Winehouse Removed From Coachella Lineup

  (Yes, that's a picture of Amy Winehouse. Weird, right? It's from her MySpace. It's been up there since 2006.)Everyone--even us!--made the same joke when Amy Winehouse was announced back in January as performing at this year's Coachella. "No way she'll actually make it there!" Well, we were right, of course, as it's been announced that she's won't be at the April festival in Indio due to work visa problems--she won't be able to get one in time because she's been charged with assaulting a fan back

  March 10, 2009

• Incoming: Silversun Pickups at the Glass House

  The Glass House's pre-Coachella week--already boasting Jenny Lewis, TV on the Radio, Conor Oberst and The Black Keys--has added another Coachella artist playing a pre-festival gig, LA's Silversun Pickups on Sunday, April 12. Tickets are $12.50 and go on sale this Friday, March 13 for $22.50. Silversun Pickups, who also played the fest in 2007, are playing the big ol' Indio hullabaloo on Friday, April 17. You may best remember them for their mainstream rock radio hit "Lazy Eye," which prompted mo

  March 11, 2009

• Friends: Lend Us Your Coachella Stories!

  Exactly one month from now we'll be in the midst of Coachella, that annual sweaty, magical musical festival in the brutal yet glorious desert of Indio. It's also the 10th anniversary of the thing (well, kind of--the 1999 one took place in October).In the spirit of getting ready for this glorious event, we're curious to hear the best Coachella tales from our local Orange County/Long Beach readers: were you mesmerized by the Pixies return show in 2004? The Rage reunion in 2007? Did you meet your f

  March 19, 2009

• OC Weekly faves land Glass House gigs

  Like any local fan, I'm always excited to see bands we've written about in the Weekly get some solid recognition elsewhere. Okay, so maybe Pomona is not too far elsewhere, but the April calendar at The Glass House has great OC/LB talent opening up for some Coachella caliber acts. The jazzy jam artists of Free Moral Agents, created by Mars Volta keyboardist Ikey Owens, landed a prime opening gig for their New York buddies TV On the Radio on April 14, days before they take the stage in Indio. Afte

  March 23, 2009

• A Blast from Bishop Cirilo Flores' Child-Abuse-Condoning Past!

  See no evil, hear no evil...no evil!Blessed are the anonymous sources, for they bring justice to the little ones...Turns out newly ordained Diocese of Orange Bishop Cirilo Flores has a proud past of defending and condoning child abusers--and I'm not even talking about his treatment of numerous Orange diocese pedophile priests. Nearly 30 years ago, Flores was involved in investigating a nationally notorious child-abuse case in the Diocese of San Bernardino and not only did nothing about it, he ag

  April 7, 2009

• No Sleep till Indio: Huge Week of Shows Leading up to Coachella

  Even if you're not making it out to Coachella this weekend, there's plenty of runoff 'round these parts to keep you satisfied, with a plethora of artists playing the festival hitting us up on the way to Indio.

  April 13, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Gang Gang Dance Bring a Slightly Tweaked Sound to the Indio Desert

  April 9, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Everything New Is Old Again--and Vice Versa

  April 9, 2009

• [Sprawl of Sound] Eli 'Paperboy' Reed and Yet More Coachella Blurbage

  April 17, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• Who the Hell Is Clutchy Hopkins? The mystery of a Mojave Desert beat savant

  February 14, 2008

• DESERT STORM

  May 5, 2005

• Flower of the Desert

  May 1, 2003

• Coachella: Paul McCartney; Morrissey; Leonard Cohen; My Bloody Valentine

  April 16, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 16, 2009

• !Ask a Mexican! Web Especial

  The great !Ask a Mexican! naming debate

  March 22, 2007

• Rad Local Shows for Those Staying in Town This Weekend

  Don't feel like sweating your balls off? Or dropping 269 bizones to get the opportunity to sweat your balls off? Weird, but you've still got options around OC if you're not heading out to Coachella.

  April 16, 2009

• Eight Days

  May 27, 2004

• [Sound Guy] The Indio Index: Coachella By the Numbers

  April 23, 2009

• Commie Girl

  Do You Hear the Drums, Fernando? We look under rocks in Joshua Tree

  January 4, 2007

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Get Out!

  April 27 - May 4: the Slaughtahouse
  

  April 27, 2006

• Another Man Done Gone

  September 23, 2004

• Punx Maybe Not Dead!

  February 6, 2003

• Letter from Coachella

  May 9, 2002

• Raving In Wonderland

  September 6, 2001

• To Da Break of Dawn

  April 26, 2001

• Strangers With Cande

  March 22, 2001

• Real Purty

  December 28, 2000

• Hippie week!

  January 13, 2000

• Vacation, Baby

  October 21, 1999

• Losing Your Coachella V-Card

  Apatow-comedy parallel alert! By my age, most rock-lovin' dudes who grew up in Southern California are able to sit around -- maybe at a beach bonfire, maybe around a Lake Forest hookah set-up, or maybe over a steaming bag of Pedro's Tacos -- and swap tales of how "experienced" they are with the Coachella music festival. As previous Heard Mentality posts by Albert and Ryan indicate, most of these stories seem to involve weed, awkward sleeping situations, heat stroke, parking lots, bathrooms

  April 15, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 4/16

  The Black Keys, 7 p.m.Arguably the world's most talanted musical duo playing today plays Pomona's Glass House before heading out to Indio to play the Coachilla Valley Music and Arts Festival. The Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, CA; 909-629-0377South Coast Apartment Association, 11 a.m.You know that leaky roof, the one your landlord has never fixed despite numerous phone calls? How about that runny toilet? Is anything ever going to be done about that? Won't someone stop the insan

  April 16, 2009

• Late Coachella Sets = Big Time Fines?

  Here's something interesting from the OC Register's Soundcheck blog via Palm Springs local news station KESQ: Apparently, Coachella promoters Goldenvoice are liable to be fined $1,000 PER MINUTE for every minute sets went past midnight this past weekend. Yipes.Sure, there's a reason why shows, especially giant, outdoor ones like this, have a certain curfew. Call me naive, but I would ever guess that said curfews could be enforced with such stiff penalties. I decried that the Cure getting cut off

  April 21, 2009

• Hang with Peter Murphy? Who Wouldn't!

  Usually "VIP packages" are shameless ripoffs, but here's one that's seriously enticing: for Peter Murphy's June 8 show at the House of Blues Anaheim, $100 will get you not only a seat in the loge section (alright), a "limited edition poster" (yawn) and early entry into the venue (eh), but also a meet-and-greet with the Murphster himself (whoa!). On sale nowNow, there are a lot of musicians that would probably be complete bores to meet (and greet) in person, but the lead singer of Bauhaus? The go

  May 13, 2009

• THIS WEEKEND: Another Festival in the Indio Desert (Stagecoach)

  You may have heard that something called Coachella went down last weekend at the Empire Polo Field about an hour and a half from here in Indio. This weekend, the ground will once again be plagued by people and water bottles, as it's time for the third annual Stagecoach Festival, affectionately known as the "country Coachella." The main stage is called "mane stage." That's adorable, and appropriate given the amount of horses nearby.

  April 24, 2009

• Beating a Dead Horse: Coachella Third Day Pics, Easy Access Links!

  Coachella may be a distant, sweaty, sticky memory at this point, but that doesn't mean that I'm willing or able to shut up about it quite yet. Beth Stirnaman had some car troubles, causing her arduous trek from Indio to be delayed (and nothing's better than being stuck in Indio when there isn't a huge music festival going on), but did that stop her from delivering these great day three images? Heck no! Check them out here. She got Peter Bjorn & John, Perry Farrell, K'naan, the Yeah Yeah Yeah

  April 21, 2009

• Puff Puff Passing at Coachella

  I've been to one Coachella and that was in 2003. Although the motive behind the hellacious trek from Long Beach to Indio was to see the first Stooges gig in nearly three decades, I ended up witnessing something way cooler than a shirtless Iggy. Elephants. You heard me. I saw a train of circus elephants walking in unison across the empty field behind an area where White Stripes fans were watching their beloved duo fight through sound issues that stemmed from an unforgiving desert wind. Coachella

  April 9, 2009