Tag: Coachella

Coachella webcast: Watch PiL, The Specials, Echo & The Bunnymen, Devo and more

Fans who can’t be in Indio, Calif., this weekend — or bands trapped in the U.K. by an angry volcano — can watch much of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival via free streaming webcasts on Facebook, MySpace and Verizon V Cast Video on Demand (for those with Verizon phones) beginning tonight.

‘We Care a Lot’: Chuck Mosley reunites with Faith No More on stage in San Francisco

‘We Care a Lot’: Chuck Mosley reunites with Faith No More on stage in San Francisco

Faith No More singer Chuck Mosley rejoined the recently reunited band on stage at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre last night for the first time in more than 20 years, singing his signature tune ‘We Care A Lot’ and four others during the band’s encore before a final duet with his replacement, Mike Patton.

Bad Lieutenant cancels U.S. debut, Coachella set threatened by Icelandic volcano

After already scuttling its first-ever American tour once, Bad Lieutenant — featuring Bernard Sumner of New Order — is now ‘stuck in Manchester,’ blocked from getting to the U.S. for its stateside debut because smoke billowing out of an Icelandic volcano has closed the airspace over the U.K.

Video: The Specials play ‘A Message to You, Rudy’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

Returning to American TV for the first time in 30 years, The Specials last night performed their 1979 single ‘A Message to You, Rudy’ on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ — and a second tune, ‘Little Bitch’, exclusively for the show’s website.

Spoiler: Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant announces its Coachella festival setlist

Bernard Sumner’s New Order spinoff Bad Lieutenant is one of the myriad bands set to play this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival — and the group today went ahead and announced (spoiler alert) its setlist for Saturday night’s performance.

Video: Public Image Ltd. plays ‘Rise,’ ‘This Is Not a Love Song’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Video: Public Image Ltd. plays ‘Rise,’ ‘This Is Not a Love Song’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

The rejiggered Public Image Ltd. made its first U.S. television appearance since 1992 last night with a performance of ‘Rise’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to promote its upcoming appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and subsequent U.S. tour.

Public Image Ltd. to open tour at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia with pre-Coachella concert

Public Image Ltd. to open tour at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia with pre-Coachella concert

The reformatted Public Image Ltd. will kick off its upcoming North American tour with a special pre-Coachella concert on April 13 at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia, the band announced tonight.

John Lydon: Public Image Ltd. reunion tour will fund recording of new album

John Lydon: Public Image Ltd. reunion tour will fund recording of new album

John Lydon hopes to use the proceeds from Public Image Ltd.’s upcoming U.S. tour to fund the recording of the reconstituted band’s first new album since 1992’s ‘That What Is Not.’

Faith No More to play New York in July; band’s first East Coast date in more than a decade

Faith No More to play New York in July; band’s first East Coast date in more than a decade

The reunited Faith No More continue to eke out U.S. tour dates, today announcing a New York City concert in July — the band’s first East Coast show in more than a decade — to follow its three sold-out San Francisco gigs in April in advance of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Public Image Ltd. adds 3 dates to U.S. tour, will appear on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

The reconstituted Public Image Ltd. this morning announced three more U.S. concerts — April 28 in Pontiac, Mich.; April 30 Milwaukee, Wis.; and May 16 in Northampton, Mass. — on the band’s post-Coachella tour this spring.

Public Image Ltd. sets 16-date North American club tour to follow Coachella appearance

Public Image Ltd. sets 16-date North American club tour to follow Coachella appearance

John Lydon with Public Image Ltd.

John Lydon will take the reformed Public Image Ltd. on its first North American tour in 18 years this spring, today announcing a 16-date club tour to follow the band’s performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Echo & The Bunnymen set 10-date North American tour to follow Coachella

Echo & The Bunnymen set 10-date North American tour to follow Coachella

Echo & The Bunnymen today unveiled a 10-date North American tour in April and May that will follow the band’s appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival — a run of dates that serves as a make-up for the November trek derailed by the group’s much-publicized IRS issues.

Echo & The Bunnymen’s post-Coachella tour taking shape with Reno, SF, NYC dates

Echo & The Bunnymen are set to unveil a “large” post-Coachella tour of the U.S. next week, although several dates — April 18 in Reno, April 19 in San Francisco and May 1 in New York City — already have emerged.