This past weekend music festival season went into high gear as thousands descended upon Indio for the 12th installment of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival. Earlier this month fest organizers Goldenvoice and the town of Indio reached a long-term deal that would keep the event, along with its country music cousin Stagecoach, there through 2030. According to the LA Times, in addition to the 17-year deal for the April event, Goldenvoice would also be allowed to host two additional concerts each fall starting in 2014, with capacities of 75,000 and 99,000 people respectively. While there are no immediate plans, Goldenvoice Vice President Skip Paige told the Times, “If U2 wants to play a show, I don’t want to not be allowed to. We don’t have plans to do shows, but it is very possible.”

• List Time: 10 Worst Cover Songs Of All Time
• Beach Boy Brian Wilson will release his autobiography in 2015
• Cover Alert: Woods tackle The Kinks
• ?uestlove tells NPR about the night he went roller-skating with Prince and Eddie Murphy
• Download This: John Coltrane – Half Note Club – NYC, NY – 1965-03-03
• CSN&Y to release a live album from their (in)famous 1974 reunion tour

Finally, we’re roughly 36-hours away from Record Store Day, and we couldn’t be more ecstatic about the bounty of great releases that are headed into our local retailers this year. We’ve also loved the fact that organizers tapped Jack White to be RSD’s official ambassador. White, who has taken to his role, has something special in store for those that will be visiting his Third Man Records’ Shop in Nashville this weekend, as he will debut of the Third Man Record Booth. The booth, a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph machine, will allow folks to record up to two minutes of audio and walk away with “a one-of-a-kind 6″ phonograph disc”. Check out how it works…

The final night of the first weekend of Coachella is upon us and for those of us who can’t make it out to Indio, festival organizers have teamed up with YouTube to stream a number of performances. Today’s acts include Smith Westerns, The Lumineers, Social Distortion, Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Vampire Weekend, Dinosaur Jr. and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

YouTube will stream Coachella on three different channels starting at 3:30PM PDT.

Watch the webcast right here and check out the full Coachella webcast schedule [PDT]…

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All eyes were on Phoenix last night for their first-ever headlining set at Coachella. Would Daft Punk sit-in with the band as had been heavily rumored and as had happened at MSG in 2010? While that didn’t happen, the French rockers did have a surprise in store for the Indio crowd.

[Photo via Phoenix Facebook Page]

Rapper R. Kelly emerged during Phoenix’s encore for a mashup of Kelly’s 2003 hit Ignition (Remix) and the French act’s 2009 blockbuster 1901. This odd couple pairing actually worked pretty well with Phoenix throwing in a bit of Chloroform from the soon-to-be-released Entertainment and R. Kelly responding in kind with I’m A Flirt. Watch webcast video of the mashup…

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This year’s Coachella Festival is once again set to take place over two weekends in April. The first weekend goes down on April 12 – 14, followed by the second weekend of April 19 – 21. For those of us who can’t attend, Coachella has teamed up with YouTube to offer live broadcasts of many performances from that first weekend.

Last year 1.9 million people tuned in to the webcast and watched more than 1.5 million hours of live Coachella performances combined according to event organizers. We’ll post the full webcast schedule once YouTube and Coachella provide it which should be a few days before the first weekend.

Back on Tuesday, while the rest of the blogosphere was pimping the Daft Punk, Phoenix and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Coachella story, we explained the problem with the source of the story – a Songkick email. Today, Songkick has posted a blog entry that goes into detail about just what happened. In short, the data was not a leak and did not come from anyone connected with the festival.

As we warned, anybody could’ve added the bunk info into Songkick’s system and if it wasn’t caught before email notifications went out, this bad data makes its way to many Songkick users.

Here’s the company’s explanation…

When bad data like this is added to Songkick, we remove it as swiftly as possible to avoid any confusion or rumours spreading. In this case, the information was added in the early hours of Saturday morning UK time – thankfully, one of our moderators in the US caught the false listing and removed it within a few hours of it being added. However, in the short space of time that it was live on the site, some email notifications were sent out. A screenshot of one of the emails was widely spread around the blogosphere and Twitter, and then picked up by the larger news sites. Unfortunately, it was seen to be a rumour and snowballed from there.

This wasn’t the first time Songkick’s system was gamed and apparently it’s been happening frequently since DaftEllaGate…

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We’re approaching the part of the year when many major music festivals reveal their lineup. Before these reveals, music blogs and message board users do their best to figure out who’s playing where before the official announcements. Sometimes this excitement leads to the spreading of false information such as the many sites that reported Prince would headline Bonnaroo 2012.

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Over the past 24 hours word has spread that Daft Punk, Phoenix and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will play Coachella 2013. What was the source of this information? An email from concert database site Songkick which showed those bands and The Rolling Stones aboard for the event. Someone took a screenshot of the email and word of the rumored appearances spread like wildfire. Even Rolling Stone picked it up.

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Coachella promoters Goldenvoice have been working with the city of Indio on a long-term pact which will keep the festival in the California desert town through 2030. This potential deal also would give Goldenvoice the right to stage an additional two festivals besides the two Coachella weekends and the Stagecoach festival. The deal would also grant the promoter a larger capacity for Coachella. Head over to the L.A. Times for a full rundown of the details behind Goldenvoice’s potential deal with Indio.

Here’s links to six more stories of interest this hump day…

• Velvet Underground lost a copyright claim to Andy Warhol’s estate
• Sonic Youth announce release of a live show recorded back in 1985
• Sigur Ros have released a new animated video for the tune Seraph
• Watch a “Prince Lookalike Contest” that took place way back in ’85
• Listen to an unreleased Sex Pistols track called Belsen Was A Gas
• The maker of the Tupac Shakur hologram has filed for bankruptcy

Finally, while the Bridge School Benefit lineup for this year’s concerts came out over the weekend, we’ve already got our first addition. HT fave Ray LaMontagne has been added to the event which takes place on October 20th and 21st at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif.

Goldenvoice, the promoters behind the famed Coachella Festival, are taking the long-running event to the high seas this December. S.S. Coachella, aka The Celebrity Silhouette, will make two trips from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean boasting indie/dance friendly acts such as Girl Talk, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, Yeasayer, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells and Pulp. The first trip, a three-day cruise, will leave Fort Lauderdale for the Bahamas on the 16th, while a four-day trip, which visits Jamaica, will depart Fort Lauderdale on December 19th according to a report by the New York Times.

Here’s the full initial lineup:

Pulp, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Girl Talk, James Murphy (DJ Set), Sleigh Bells, Simian Mobile Disco, Z-Trip, !!!, Warpaint, DJ Harvey, EL-P, Killer Mike, Black Lips, The Gaslamp Killer, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Jason Bentley, The Rapture, Father John Misty, Tokimonsta, Alf Alpha

The prices start at about $500 a person and are expected to run upwards of $9,000 for a “sky suite.” Just like other floating concerts such as Jam Cruise and Sixthman’s many full-ship charters, S.S. Coachella attendees can participate in activities that go beyond the music such as a wine tasting with James Murphy, a live DJ tutorial and a D.I.Y. arts n’ crafts workshop. All in all, Goldenvoice will make use of four venues – the pool deck, the intimate sky lounge, the large silhouette theater and the artificial “lawn club.” Reservations go on sale this Saturday through the Coachella website.

Rumors that Coachella promoters AEG Live and Goldenvoice would again expand the festival in to a three weekend event were squashed this morning when the Coachella website was updated with the dates for the 2013 installment of the festival. Once again, Coachella will span two consecutive weekends in the desert city of Indio.

The first weekend will take place from April 12 – 14, while weekend number two will go down from April 19 to 21. An advance sale for passes to both weekends is set to take place this Thursday, May 17, at 10AM PDT through the Coachella website.

The first weekend of Coachella wraps up today in Indio, California; where Radiohead headlined yesterday’s festivities. Those checking in on the festival via webcast were in for a treat last night when Radiohead’s set was webcast. If you missed it, we’ve got you covered…

Radiohead – Entire Coachella Set

Setlist:

1. Bloom (1:05)
2. 15 Step (7:30)
3. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (11:40)
4. Morning Mr Magpie (17:25)
5. Staircase (22:40)
6. The Gloaming (27:20)
7. Pyramid Song (31:10)
8. Daily Mail (36:30)
9. Myxomatosis (40:15)
10. Karma Police (45:15)
11. Identikit (50:30)
12. Lotus Flower (54:30)
13. There There (59:55)
14. Bodysnatchers (1:05:40)
15. Idioteque (1:10:00)

Encore 1

16. Lucky (1:17:20)
17. Reckoner (1:21:50)
18. After the Gold Rush intro, Everything In It’s Right Place (1:27:25)

Encore 2

19. Give Up the Ghost (1:37:20)
20. Paranoid Android (1:43:04)

[via Rock It Out! Blog]

The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dog are among the headliners slated for the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 13-15 and 20-22.  The festival sent a tweet out with the image below.

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Other artists named include the recently reformed The Shins and At The Drive-In, Bon Iver, Jeff Magnum, Explosions In the Sky, Feist, Beirut, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and a shit ton of other acts. This is the first year the festival is being held over two weekends, with each weekend featuring the same schedule of acts. Stay tuned for updated information regarding ticket sales as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Tickets for the festival weekends, which start at a cool $285, as well as various other packages, go on-sale Friday, Jan. 13 at 10 AM PST.

Grace Potter’s star continues to rise as the singer and longtime HT fave has told Rolling Stone that she will provide the voice for a character on the next installment of Prep & Landing, an ABC special produced by Disney/Pixar that will air later this year. According to Potter people shouldn’t get too excited as she doesn’t actually say a word, “My character mumbles and makes noises with her mouth – which is kind of awesome.” Awesome, indeed.

Potter also revealed that she has written her first-ever Christmas song titled Naughty, Naughty Children that will be featured in Prep & Landing. In other Grace news, the Vermonter joined Stevie Wonder, Rickey Minor, Sharon Jones at last night’s Global Soul concert at the Hollywood Bowl. You can watch the finale here.

Let’s take a tour of the web for six stories of note…

• Snoop Dogg will open for STS9 at Red Rocks on September 9
• A 1971 article from Life looks at rock stars’ and their parents
• Mashable meets some of Turntable.FM’s most popular DJs
• Cover Alert: Bon Iver covered Bjork on “Bon Iver Day” in WI
• Feist has announced that her new album, Metals, is due Oct. 4
• Listen as Arcade Fire remix their own Ready to Start track

Before we go, we wanted to point you in the direction of this post from Consequence of Sound which rounds up all of the fake Coachella 2012 posters that have surfaced on the web in recent weeks. We can’t wait to see how this “two weekends of Coachella” plays out next spring and any of the lineups detailed in these “fake” posters would certainly get our attention.

The organizers of the Coachella Festival have just announced that next year’s event will be held over two weekends. Here’s a look at the full statement…

We’re excited to announce Coachella 2012 will be held over TWO WEEKENDS.

In an effort to try and accommodate everyone who wants to experience the festival, COACHELLA 2012 will be two separate events, held over two consecutive weekends. We will attempt to produce two identical festival weekends. That means same lineup, same art, same place, different people.

We know many of you were unable to attend this year’s festival because passes sold out much sooner than anticipated. We were truly surprised by the overwhelming response and remain honored by your passion and enthusiasm. We also know some of you purchased through non legitimate sources and were inconvenienced, gouged or totally scammed. We hope that these changes will give everyone the opportunity to purchase directly from Coachella.com.

Passes go on sale beginning this Friday, June 3rd, 2011, at 10am PST until the following Friday June 10th, 2011, at 10pm PST. This advance sale will be the only opportunity to take advantage of the Coachella Payment Plan. Passes will be available through a payment plan of 10% down and 8 equal monthly payments OR by payment in full. The price of three-day passes remains at $269 plus fees for the sixth consecutive year.

Coachella Weekend 1 – April 13-15, 2012 | Coachella Weekend 2 – April 20-22, 2012

[Coachella.com]

This is a major move for Coachella that should bring in double the income while allowing two times the number of people to partake in the event. The last few Coachella’s have been sold out, so why not make the fun last two weekends? Of course, now music fans will have to decide which weekend to hit. Sure, the lineups will be the same, but each band’s sets will certainly be different. Will this start a trend that other festies will follow? Your move, Bonnaroo.

While we didn’t make it out to Indio for this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival, plenty of bloggers and journalists did make the trip. We wanted to point you in the direction of the best coverage…

• Rolling Stone: Kings of Leon, Robyn, The Black Keys Rock Day One of Coachella, Mumford & Sons Feel Humbled Before Biggest Gig of Their Career, Chromeo Talk Ezra Koenig Collaboration and Montreal vs. NYC Bagels, Day Two of Coachella – Amazing Sets by Arcade Fire, The Kills, Mumford & Sons and More, The Hottest Photos From Coachella 2011
• Spinner: Kanye West Does Right By Coachella – Shows Up On Time and Rocks The Desert, The National Close Coachella Set With Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Ariel Pink Throws Onstage Tantrum, Mumford & Sons Rock Songs From The Heart, Arcade Fire Turn Coachella Crowd Into Art, The Kills Bring Full Moon Fever to Coachella 2011, Tame Impala Enjoy The Lack of Bikini Birds at Coachella, Cut Copy Causes Dance Party at Coachella 2011, Plug Pulled on Cee Lo, Lauryn Hill Squeezes Extra Song @ Coachella
• Spin: Spin’s Best Coachella Photos, PJ Harvey Delivers a Harrowing Coachella Set, Animal Collective Debut Powerful New Songs, Zach De La Rocha Unleashes The Lion,  Best and Worst Moments of Day Two, Arcade Fire’s Unforgettable Coachella Moment, Best and Worst Moments of Day One
• Pitchfork: Coachella Photos, Coachella Video Roundup
• NY Times: Spectacle Day at Coachella, At Coachella Many Takes on the ’80s
• Billboard: 10 Things Seen & Heard on Friday, 10 Things Seen & Heard on Saturday, 10 Things Seen & Heard on Sunday
• Brooklyn Vegan: Day 1 In Pics, Day 2 In Pics, Day 3 In Pics, Kanye West Pics & Setlist, Inside The Arcade Fire Coachella Beach Balls, Arcade Fire Headlined Coachella And It Was Awesome, The Mysterious Coachella Ferris Wheel Jumper,

There’s also been plenty of video uploaded to YouTube. We went through the hundreds of clips and made a list of our faves. Many of these are sourced from the webcast, no shaky, unfocused videos here…

• Arcade Fire – Wake Up
• Bright Eyes – Lover I Don’t Have To Love
• Broken Social Scene – Texico Bitches
• Jacks Mannequin – Bruised
• Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know
• Mumford & Sons – Lover of the Light
• Freelance Whales – Hannah
• Gayngs – No Sweat
• Kings of Leon – Fans
• Lauryn Hill – Ex-Factor
• Flogging Molly – Don’t Shut ‘Em Down
• !!! – Heart of Hearts
• …
  

As we reported earlier, a number of performances from this weekend’s Coachella Festival will be broadcast live on YouTube and now we know which bands we’ll get to watch on the site’s three feeds starting tomorrow. The producers did a good job of putting together a diverse group of acts for the webcast that includes Tame Impala, Cee Lo Green, The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, The Strokes, the National and Morning Benders.

Here’s a look at the entire Coachella Webcast schedule…

Friday
Channel 1
04:10PM – The Drums
04:55PM – Cee Lo Green
05:45PM – Moving Units
06:30PM – Ozomatli
07:25PM – Interpol
08:35PM – Ms. Lauryn Hill
09:55PM – Kings of Leon
11:15PM – The Black Keys
12:05AM – Gayngs

Channel 2
04:00PM – !!!
04:50PM – Warpaint
05:35PM – Cold Cave
06:25PM – YACHT
07:10PM – Cold War Kids
08:00PM – Titus Andronicus
09:00PM – The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart
10:00PM – Tame Impala
10:55PM – Monarchy
12:00AM – Flogging Molly

Channel 3
04:30PM – The Morning Benders
05:45PM – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
07:25PM – Interpol – surveillance
08:20PM – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

READ ON for the rest of the Coachella Webcast schedule…