Erykah Badu Shares Her Personal Experience Performing At Coachella 2011

Erykah shares her thoughts, thanks and praises of the music festival known as Coachella where she performed on Saturday, April 16th.

Check out the photo links of Ms. Badu performance at this year's Coachella Music Festival:
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(video courtesy of DJ A1)

Jay-Z Coachella 2010 Concert Set Video Recap

Jay-Z at last week's Coachella appearance, with fireworks at the end included.

Related:
Jay-Z Live At Coachella Day 1 Concert Recap

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B.o.B. Live At Coachella 2010

Entertainment Weekly had this to say about Bobby Ray aka B.o.B.'s Coachella (Sunday, April 18) afternoon live set:

Deep bass rumbled through the field. “I just feel separated from you,” B.o.B said before climbing down toward the crowd to sing his jubilant hook from T.I.’s “Top of the World”: “I used to dream, oh, oh, about the money and the cars and girls/But now I sing, oh, oh, because I’m sitting on top of the world.” And with the second-biggest single in the country for weeks on end, he is, isn’t he? Soon B.o.B picked up a guitar to show off his rock chops. He’s a decent axeman, but only a couple of songs from this part of his set (“Don’t Let Me Fall,” “Satellite”) were at all memorable. At last he played that aforementioned No. 2 smash, “Nothin’ on You.” The crowd crooned along with his sweet-natured lyrics, a reminder of the pop platform that this unusual new star now has.

Photo links of B.o.B. performing at Coachella:
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Download the audio from B.o.B.'s Coachella full live set courtesy of Young Kingz here:

B.o.B. Coachella 2010 Sunday, April 18 live set

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Street Sweeper Social Club Perform M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes' Live At Coachella Day 1

Here's what the L.A. Times said about the Street Sweeper Social Club's song choice and live set at Coachella 2010 from Day 1:

The Street Sweeper Social Club's cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" contains multitudes. When guitarist Tom Morello tossed off the opening riff of the song, a sample of the Clash's "Straight to Hell," it was unclear where the song was headed. Would it go to Joe Strummer's "If you can play on the fiddle" line? Or would it land on MIA's "I fly like paper get high like planes"? It was the latter, and SSSC, the rap rock super group featuring Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, and the Coup's incendiary lead singer, Boots Riley, tore into the song. Morello rode that menacing Clash riff while Riley rapped Maya Arulpragasam's words. As the song moved to the expert shotgun-cracks in the chorus, the guitarist moved his instrument like a weapon, blowing out into the audience.

The Social Club proved something important: that rap and rock, such a treacherous pairing given its history of appealing to the testosterone-heavy, shirtless frat-dudes, can be strong and beautiful, smart and angry. The band drew from the hard funk of Living Color, the rolling funk of Funkadelic, the rhythmic funk of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the angular riffage of the Minutemen, the global fury of M.I.A. and, well, Tom Morello. It was potent, vital, and incredibly powerful.

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Gorillaz With De La Soul Perform 'Feel Good' Live At Coachella Day 3

Gorillaz were one of the closers at yesterday's Coachella festival in Indio, CA. Since De La Soul played earlier in the day, it was only natural they would join the Gorillaz with 'Feels Good'.

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P.O.S. Sings The Praises Of Indie Music Stores On Record Store Day 2010

Rhymesayer artist P.O.S. explains his love of independent music stores while visiting the Zia pop up store at this year's Coachella Music Festival.

Donnis Performs At Indioasis Event Parallel To Coachella 2010

This is where all the cool people gather in the desert while others try to handle the heat, traffic and crowds at Coachella.

Newly signed to Atlantic Records Donnis performed a short set for this event.

(video courtesy of Raymond Leon Roker)

Jay-Z Live At Coachella Day 1 Concert Recap

(photo courtesy of Rodrigo Peña / Riverside Press Enterprise)

Show recap via the Desert Sun

Jay-Z closed out the Coachella festivities Friday night (April 16) to massive crowd of cheering fans.

“Dude, it’s Jay-Z; he practically owns hip hop,” said Jennifer Boehmke, 33, of Santa Monica while she anxiously waited for the rapper to hit the stage.

The Grammy-award winning artist opened his set by rising from the stage floor around 11.10 p.m. with smash hit “Run this Town,” from his eleventh studio album “The Blueprint 3.”

Songs that followed include the enormously popular single “Empire State of Mind,” in addition to “Big Pimpin’,” “99 Problems,” and “Izzo (H.O.V.A.).”

A short video clip featuring President Obama played before Jay-Z launched the song “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” roughly midway through his set.

Leading up to the festival, rumors suggested rapper Dr. Dre, would perform with Jay-Z, but the former N.W.A. member was nowhere to be seen. Dre’s unreleased single off his highly anticipated album “Detox” features the Coachella headliner.



Around 12:30 a.m., after several minutes of shout outs to the crowd, Jay-Z’s equally famous wife, R&B artist Beyonce Knowles joined him on stage for the ballad “Forever Young,” also from “The Blueprint 3.”

Jay Z completed his set around 12:45 a.m. with the song “Encore” while the crowd danced and shouted along with the music.

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Jay-Z: Day 1 Friday Coachella L.A. Times Report

Above, Jay-Z and musician Ira Tuton of Yeasayer backstage during Day 1 of the Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival 2010 held at the Empire Polo Club on April 16, 2010 in Indio, California.

Is it not enough to land one of the richest deals in pop music history, marry into R&B/pop royalty and score 11 No. 1 albums? Jay-Z has done all that plus shattered the glass ceiling for straight-up hip-hop acts playing the mainstage at Coachella (respect to the Beastie Boys).

The Times’ chief pop critic Ann Powers may have put it best when she noted that Jay-Z is “taking strong steps to adjust his place in history from the ‘great’ category to the ‘legendary.’ ”

Just a couple of hours before he's due to go on, it's worth considering.

But to hear it from Hovi Baby, who turned 40 in December, he’s hardly content to slide by on past glories. With the same icy professionalism that has defined his most notable career moves -- investing in the successful chain of 40/40 Club sports bars, taking on part ownership of the New Jersey Nets basketball team -- Jay-Z has surveyed the marketplace and run a diagnostic on his biggest liabilities.

And the man who anointed himself “the greatest rapper alive” cops to a surprising level of insecurity as he slides toward middle age.

“I have the biggest challenge of them all, I believe,” Jay told The Times last month at the New York offices of his clothing label Rocawear. “Hip-hop in its 32-whatever years has always been viewed as a young man’s game. Hip-hop has always been about the gift of discovery. What’s new? Yeah, I know Jay-Z. That’s ain’t even cool to say he’s good anymore. It’s cool to say MC Nobody and put that on my iPod.”

“Hip-hop is all about ‘You doing this? I’m doing that’ -- the individualism it gave you," he continued. “People are like, ‘Oh, that’s fresh!’ Fresh: the biggest word in hip-hop.”

In an age of fad dances and auto-tune-dominated gimmick-raps, when popularity is judged by ring-tone download ubiquity as much as radio play, Jay-Z feels a strong sense of obligation to hip-hop culture -- instead of to his ego, his concert promoter Live Nation or the bottom line -- to continue coming correct.

“So my challenge is to expand,” he said. “To grow hip-hop and the genre. My job, Eminem’s job, everyone who’s been performing for more than a year, our job is to push this thing forward and find some kind of truth in where we are now. It has to be about something. Truth, emotion, growth. In order for us to survive as a legitimate genre of music, we have to stretch out.” (source)

Check out Beyonce & Jay-Z hanging out backstage at today's Coachella Festival.
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Coachella 2010 Set Times With Jay-Z, Gorillaz, B.o.B. And More

via the L.A. Times by way of Coachella.com

Jay-Z Coachella Stage 10:50 PM - close

Gil Scott-Heron Gobi Stage 6:55 - 7:55 PM

Street Sweeper Social Club Coachella Stage 5:05 - 5:55 PM

Wale Coachella Stage 2:35 - 3:25 PM

P.O.S. Gobi Stage 1:25 - 2:05 PM



Flying Lotus Gobi Stage 10:45 - 11:35 PM

DJ Z-Trip Sahara Stage- 10:30 - 11:20 PM

Major Lazer Mojave Stage 9:25 - 10:10 PM

David Guetta Sahara Stage - 9:00 - 10:15 PM

MGMT Outdoor Theatre 8:50 - 9:40 PM

Corinne Bailey Rae Gobi Stage 7:00 - 7:50 PM



Gorillaz Coachella Stage 10:30 PM - close

Thom Yorke Outdoor Theatre 9:00 PM - close

Sly Stone Gobi Stage 7:00 - 7:45 PM

De La Soul Coachella Stage 3:50 - 4:40 PM

Mayor Hawthorne Gobi Stage 3:20 - 4:05 PM

B.o.B. Coachella Stage 2:40 - 3:25 PM

Jay-Z Headlines 2010 Coachella Music Festival; Wale & B.o.B. Also On The Bill

via the Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z will bring his "Empire State of Mind" to the West Coast for Coachella this year.

The Brooklyn-born rapper will headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which kicks off on April 16 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif.

Rock acts Muse and Gorillaz are set to headline on April 17 and 18, respectively. The three-day festival — with more than 130 acts — also includes Thom Yorke, David Guetta (GET'-tah), MGMT, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and Wale (wah-LAY).

Three-day weekend passes are priced at $269, plus surcharges. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Highlighted acts:

Friday, April 16
Jay-Z
P.O.S.
Wale

Saturday, April 17
David Guetta
Corrine Bailey Rae
DJ Z-Trip
Flying Lotus

Sunday, April 18
Gorillaz
De La Soul
Sly and the Family Stone
B.o.B.
Gil Scott-Heron
Mayer Hawthorne