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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Festival season is officially here and so is Neon Carnival, the popular desert festival after-party that returns for its 12th year in the Coachella Valley. Once again brought …

Abbey Carbonneau was staring at the lineup poster for the Firefly Music Festival back in 2018 when she noticed something that pissed her off: of the first 23 artists named on the poster of the seven-stage, three-day Delaware festival, only one was a woman. Carbonneau, a Massachusetts native, sat down …

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is heading into its 24th year with a set of history-making headliners. When the festival grounds welcome thousands of music fans back, first on the weekend of April 14 through 16 and again on the weekend of April 21 through 23, they’ll witness …

The first K-pop headliner. The first Latino headliner. And the return of Frank Ocean. Coachella 2023 is ready to make history as the first iteration of the festival where none of the headliners are white. On Tuesday, the celebrated music festival announced its stacked lineup for 2023. With Blackpink, Bad …

Goldenvoice, the concert giant behind Coachella, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the organizers of Afrochella, a Ghanaian music festival specializing in Afrobeats music. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at a California district court and obtained by Rolling Stone, comes three years after AEG (which owns Goldenvoice) issued a warning …

Still dressed in their work uniforms after an arduous day under the desert sun in mid-April, seven men tasked with building the tents at Coachella wait anxiously to watch Mexican band Grupo Firme take the very stage the men helped build. Among the construction workers is Jose, a Coachella Valley …

O n a Friday night in New York, Harry Styles put on a show. It wasn’t just any show; it was the first time he performed his third and soon-to-be-biggest album, Harry’s House, in its entirety. The crowd that May night covered Long Island’s UBS Arena in feathers and glitter …

Shonka Dukureh, a singer and actress who recently portrayed blues legend Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, has died at age 44. The Charlotte, North Carolina native was found dead in her Nashville apartment on Thursday, July 21, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The police …

Mark your calendars: Coachella is returning to Indio, California, next year. On Tuesday, the music festival announced that its 2023 iteration will take place over the weekends of April 15 to 17 and April 21 to 23 next year. Frank Ocean, who was originally one of the headliners for the …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Coachella is done, and if there’s anything to learn — besides the artist set times of course — it’s what to pack to make for a stress-free festival …