Yeasayer (music group)

Not at Coachella? Don't worry — neither are these shows

2013-04-02 07:30:00

It's April, which is good news for the roughly 180,000 music fans who have tickets to the sold-out Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, set for the weekends of April 12 and April 19. But for those who find themselves shut out of the annual...

Coachella 2013: Essential tracks

2013-04-07 05:00:00

This Coachella edition gathers new music by lesser-known artists gigging this weekend's music festival as well as one epic reissue by a recently reunited group. If you haven't the desire, money or constitution to spend three days surrounded by so many...

Local Natives returns to Coachella with more perspective

2013-04-07 05:00:00

At a placid outdoor table in the Silver Lake restaurant Local, the frontmen of Local Natives are drinking coffee and look entirely at home. The restaurant is just a few blocks from their rehearsal space, a small house teetering above Sunset Boulevard...

Coachella 2013: Soulful devotion to new sounds

2013-04-07 05:00:00

Even before the release of her debut album, the English singer Jessie Ware was attracting next-big-thing buzz with appearances on tracks by cutting-edge dance-music artists such as SBTRKT and Joker. But she wasn't born hip. "Growing up, I was the person...

Mark McGrath cruise canceled; singer blames 'recent cruise fiasco'

2013-02-28 12:35:00

Fans of post-alternative radio rock and bottomless daiquiris have been dealt a blow after a Mark McGrath & Friends cruise hit the proverbial iceberg today. The Sugar Ray frontman and pop-culture gadfly had curated an immaculate assemblage of bands...

Coachella 2013: Ticket woes and a quick sell-out for Weekend 1

2013-01-29 13:10:00

Tickets for the first weekend of this year's� Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival reportedly sold out within 15 minutes, even as computer users reported widespread issues in attempting to purchase weekend passes. Long wait times and site crashes...

Coachella 2013: Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline

2013-01-24 22:09:00

Last year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival used technological trickery to make it look as if Tupac Shakur had been brought back to life. So what do you do for an encore to one of pop music’s biggest magic shows? Coachella organizers have...

The xx covers 'Last Christmas' with characteristic doom, gloom

2012-12-17 15:37:00

"Last Christmas," the great sad-sack holiday jam by Wham!, has been covered by countless acts since the song's release in 1984. And a good number of those interpreters -- from Jimmy Eat World to Crazy Frog to Ashley Tisdale of "High School Musical" -- did...

S.S. Coachella 2012: Pulp, Yeasayer stay afloat

2012-12-17 10:23:00

There might be no richer musical irony than hearing Pulp play "Common People" onboard a luxury cruise liner. A Brit pop laceration of slumming art-school dilettantes performed to a room full of absolutely hammered music-biz wheeler-dealers en route to...

S.S. Coachella 2012: It's a marathon, not a sprint

2012-12-18 09:48:00

Give Goldenvoice honcho Paul Tollett credit -- he knows how fans feel at the end of his festivals. "You need a full weekend. By day three, you’re tired, you’re hungry, and you're cursing Coachella. But then the sun sets and you're like 'Oh,...

Coachella on the high seas

2012-12-20 06:00:00

The S.S. Coachella cruise is the exact opposite of what the landlocked Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is for most fans. Imagine what that weekend in Indio would be like without the parking hassles and dehydration, but instead with breakfast in bed...

FYF Fest 2012: Refused, Wild Flag, M83, Yeasayer booked

2012-06-18 16:37:27

Yeasayer performs during Lollapalooza at Grant Park in Chicago, Il.

2010-08-07 22:00:00