Keith Plocek

Check out more photos from day three at "Coachella 2011: Day Three with Kanye West, Death From Above 1979, The Strokes, Ratatat, The National, Duck Sauce and More" We came, we saw, we sweated off four pounds of water. Kudos to the Coachella organizers for turning the Empire Polo Grounds......

Kanye West is way up on top of a crane, its arm slowly spinning above the crowd. "Can we get much higher?", the opening refrain from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, blasts from the speakers. The moon is full. Tens of thousands of eyeballs are on Kanye. The spectacle begins......

See more photos from Saturday at "Coachella 2011: Day Two with Arcade Fire, Paul Van Dyk, The Kills, Broken Social Scene and More." Without road trips lingering or looming, and with just the right amount of hangover, the Coachella crowd attacked the grounds on Saturday, and the bands fought along......

A unidentified woman almost fell from the Ferris Wheel on the Coachella grounds Friday night. Details are scant, but it appears she was saved by someone else on the ride. We hustled over to the site after hearing about the incident and talked to a couple event people in yellow......

It's currently 98 degrees in the Coachella Valley. Gone are the thoughtful outfits of yesterday's twilight shows. We're sure they'll reappear soon enough, but for now many attendees seem content wearing as little as possible. Can't say we blame them:......

"You're heading to Coachella? Watch out for $10 water bottles." It's a joke likely as old as Coachella itself, and at this point it's entered Hackville, right up there with bitching about airline food or waiting in line at the DMV. Just the other morning we heard a woman (we......

Check out photos from day one at "Coachella 2011: Day One with Boys Noize, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys and More" Compared to last year's problems with wristbands and overcrowding, the first day of Coachella 2011 was smooth sailing. Greasy even. Let's take a look at yesterday's GOODs, BADs......

Coachella 2011 now officially has its first mash-up. Our own Wendy Gilmartin just saw Sir Paul McCartney spinning with Afrojack. Usher was up there too. We'd just been joking about guest appearances, so we actually thought it was a prank at first. But no, let it be known. Paul McCartney......

How much should live music sound like the recorded version? It's not a new question, and we don't have an answer. But we were just listening to Sleigh Bells in the Mojave Tent at Coachella, and even with the crowd noise, even with the sound of Afrojack leaking in from......