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  • Coachella 2014 Reunites OutKast, Blows up Twitter

    The annual two-weekend, three-day Coachella Festival features 184 artists this year, with headlining acts including a reunited OutKast performing on Friday, Muse headlining the Saturday shows, and Arcade Fire set to close out Sunday nights.

    The 2014 festival also features notable acts including Lorde, Pixies, The Replacements, Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Queens of the Stone Age, Nas, Calvin Harris, Broken Bells, Motörhead, Haim, Neko Case, MGMT, Girl Talk, Foster the People, Lana Del Rey, Pharrell Williams, Chromeo and Mogwai. A full list of the bands on the roster can viewed at the Coachella site.

    The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is held yearly at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley, situated in the Colorado Desert. The 2014 festival began on April 11, and will continue tonight, and again on April 18, 19, and 20. General admission tickets were sold out in less than 20 minutes, while VIP tickets which went for over $5,000 sold out in under 3 hours.

    Here is a clip of OutKast’s full set:

    While there had been rumors that Instagram crashed due to an overflow of festival pictures, Twitter saw heightened celebrity traffic.

    Lorde tweets about Saturday’s minor sandstorm that hit the area:

    Global superstars Lindsay Lohan and Rebecca Black convey their festival enthusiasm:

    Actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Kate Capshaw appear to be lost:

    Former rap game rivals Jay Z and Nas performed together onstage:

    Adam Levine seems unimpressed with the fest:

    International fashion icon Paris Hilton chimes in:

    White Girl Problems displays dignity:

    2014 Coachella desert-fashions:

    Twerking sensation Miley Cyrus was a Coachella-eque fashion visionary ahead of her time:

    Katy Perry attended the festival sans Riff Raff:

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  • Dave Grohl Closing The Grammys With NIN & QOTSA

    The Grammys are going to go out with a rocking bang on Sunday.

    Dave Grohl, Nine Inch Nails (NIN), Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), and special guest Lindsey Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac) will be the closing performance at the 56th annual Grammy Awards.

    The Foo Fighters frontman has previously performed with both Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age, appearing on Nine Inch Nails’ 2005 album White Teeth and Queens of the Stone Age’s 2002 album Songs for the Deaf.

    While Buckingham may seem like a bit of a random participant in the performance, he has actually performed with Nine Inch Nails on Hesitation Marks, their latest album. Buckingham was also featured in Grohl’s documentary Sound City: Real to Reel, about the legendary L.A. recording studio.

    “We’re incredibly excited about this number. There’s nothing better than when the Grammys can rock out, and to have these artists all together on one stage, doing a number that, when they presented it to us, knocked us out, is going to turn out to be one of those Grammy moments that people talk about for a long time. Long live Trent, Josh, Dave and Lindsey and these great bands!” said Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of the Grammys.

    Queens of the Stone Age already took to their official Twitter account to announce the good news of their Grammy performance.

    And of course Nine Inch Nails lead singer, Trent Reznor, is also excited about Sunday’s performance.

    Sir Paul McCartney is also happy about the performance, as well as a performance from his friend and former bandmate, Ringo Starr.

    Grohl, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, and Lindsey Buckingham are all either nominated or connected to a nomination at this year’s ceremony.

    Image via YouTube.

  • Coachella Music Festival: OutKast Has Been Confirmed

    Back in November we reported that OutKast would be playing at this year’s Coachella music festival, but many still decided not to exhale since the legendary group has been known to give false starts before.

    Ever since the group’s last album together “Idlewild,” which was a soundtrack for their movie of the same name, members Andre 3000 and Big Boi have given fans every excuse about not making music together, aside from saying what most people feared the most, that they were officially broken up.

    Which is why a tweet from Coachella organizers is probably the best Twitter message OutKast fans have ever received, since it confirmed that the group was not only back together (yeah, we’re not buying the whole we’re just taking a break thing) but they were in fact headlining the 15-year festival. “Share it like a Polaroid picture,” wrote the the organizers along with their tweet. A reference to OutKast’s 2003 song “Hey Ya!” from their critically acclaimed album, “The Speakerboxx/The Love Below.”

    Other Coachella acts this year include, The Replacements, Queens of the Stone Age, Kid Cudi, Arcade Fire, A$AP Ferg, The Afghan Whigs, Aloe Blacc, Bonobo, Muse, plus others, and it all starts on the weekend of April 11, in Indio, Calif. The second weekend of the event is on April 18.

    It’s safe to say that many fans are wondering if OutKast headlining the festival is merely a one-off performance or if it means the start of more shows and new material. Because truth be told, we love it when Big Boi and Andre release solo projects, but it’s like eating a sandwich with just jelly and no peanut butter or watching a movie with the sound off. Sure you’ll get some enjoyment, but you’ll always know and resent the fact that something very crucial is missing.

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