When Idris King produced a song titled “90s Baby”while attending college in the U.K. in 2014, the aspiring Nigerian musician had hoped to reach a few hundred listeners relying on online platforms like SoundCloud. His best bet to boost numbers a bit, he concluded, was related merchandise, which he sold on returning home to Nigeria […]
Tag: Coachella
Lana Del Rey’s “Coachella — Woodstock in My Mind” as a Window into Our Baudrillardian Cultural Hell
There’s something immensely sad about listening to Lana Del Rey’s “Coachella — Woodstock in My Mind.” Not, perhaps, for the reasons that Del Rey might have intended in writing the song, which is a somewhat sappy meditation on the state of the world through the lens of a sort of epiphany that she apparently had […]
Security News This Week: A Coachella Smartphone Thief Forgot About ‘Find My iPhone’
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: A Coachella Smartphone Thief Forgot About ‘Find My iPhone’ appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
Watch: Hans Zimmer Rocks Coachella with ‘Inception’ Medley
2017’s Coachella music festival is under way in Southern California, and while attendees may have flocked to the desert to seek out shows from Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga, one of the festival’s acts that might be of more immediate interest to a film-loving community like /Film’s is composer Hans Zimmer. Last night, Zimmer took the stage with […]
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s ‘A Star Is Born’ Remake to Shoot at Coachella
One of the trickiest elements of making a narrative film about a pop superstar has to be the logistical nightmare of concert scenes – not only getting the proper venues to create a convincing performance sequence, but the rabid fans to fill it. For his feature directorial debut, Bradley Cooper has figured out a rather […]
Lady Gaga debuted her new single The Cure at Coachella
Lady Gaga headlined the Coachella Music Festival last night, and used the opportunity to debut a new song during her set, “The Cure”, which went on sale last night. The song is an upbeat pop number, and a bit of a return to form after the country-influenced Joanne. It’s now available on a variety of […]
Join Me at Coachella With American Express This Weekend
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Coachella Sues Urban Outfitters for Copyright Infringement
Who owns the diaphanous dress/faded Polaroid/culturally questionable headdress brand? And who owns the name “Coachella”? Such are the questions that our courts are considering in the year of our lord, 2017. As the LA Weeklyreports, Coachella parent company Goldenvoice is suing Urban Outfitters for trademark infringement, alleging unauthorized use of the word “Coachella” to describe […]
How to Get to Coachella and Other Summer Music Festivals With Starpoints
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