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Becoming a Member of Lucent Dossier Is Not Easy

Chris Victorio Jordan Wentz doing the splits, handling fire...just another day on the job. This year, Lucent Dossier celebrates its 10th anniversary at Coachella. Honestly, we couldn't imagine a festival season without them. For the uninitiated, this traveling tribe of dancers, aerialists, acrobats, clowns and carnival freaks are the heart......
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For Photojournalist Andrew Youssef, Life Was Music. Then Came Cancer

Courtesy of Andrew YoussefAndrew Youssef (right) with Trent Reznor Sneakers squeaking on white tiles, Andrew Youssef roams Long Beach Memorial Hospital. It's 5:30 p.m., and for the bespectacled, well-mannered pharmacist, that means quitting time. He isn't heading home to a sloshy TV dinner, a plush couch and HBO. Instead, he......
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We Hang Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

Nate JacksonCollapsing at the campsiteCoachella can be brutal: Dry desert heat, sand storms, endurance tests. It's hard for folks to survive with their health intact. That is, unless you're in the Marine Corps. Jimmy English and Tidas Friday (not their real names) repair tanks and other military vehicles. They recently......
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Coachella: Questionable Fashion Statements

2Chainz, shot by Timothy NorrisThe fans at Coachella tend to wear things no humans should. (Except for the bros, of course.) But the artists on stage can commit some cringe-worthy fashion faux pas as well. (Here's hoping they take some of those hard earned Coachella dollars from this weekend and......
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Ice Cube – KDAY Krush Groove – April 28, 2012

Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Mystikal and others KDAY Krush Groove Gibson Amphitheater April 28, 2012 An invitation to Ice Cube's gangsta nation is tough to decline, even for those on the right side of the law. Which is why at one point during the Krush Groove hip-hop concert on Saturday......
Vintage Trouble (left to right): Ty Taylor

Vintage Trouble's Soulful Homecoming

The hills of Laurel Canyon might not be the first place you'd think to look for a gritty soul band like Vintage Trouble. But one thing that gives the band's rollicking, old-school flavor some authenticity is their decision to rehearse at their drummer Richard Danielson's house there, pitted inside a......
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At the Drive-In Speaks! Why They Finally Reunited (Hint: It Wasn't the Cash)

See also: *Cutting-Room Floor Outtakes From This At the Drive-In Story: "We Found Love Together, We Lost Love Together" *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Mars Volta and At the Drive-In's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard *Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is One Meandering Interview Legendary post-hardcore......