Indio News

INDIO, Calif. - Dee Dee Penny, lead singer of the Dum Dum Girls, is no stranger to performing at giant summer musical events.

Early Friday morning in the high desert outside of Palm Springs, menacing Baltimore synth pop band Future Islands was responsible for a memorably challenging, if ultimately victorious, sold-out gig.

OutKast performs during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Friday, April 11, 2014.

A 24-year-old Oakland woman who attended the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last weekend has died after an apparent drug or alcohol overdose, the Riverside County sheriff-coroner said Friday.

The DJ-slash-model-slash-BBC-TV-presenter-slash-Oxford-grad snapped pics with her friends inside the private-plane terminal of the Burbank airport.

Blood Orange performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, Sunday, April 13, 2014.

Elle Goulding performs onstage during day 1 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2014 in Indio, California.

Varisa Tantiwasadakran, a freshman majoring in print and digital journalism, high fives a fellow classmate during class in celebration of National High Five Day, which falls on every third Thursday in April.

Busta Rhymes , Debbie Harry , Puff Daddy , Jay Z and several others stole the show last weekend during the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, surprising fans who braved the wind and setting social media in a frenzy all over the world.

Weekend one of Coachella has come and gone, and by the time this column goes to print, weekend two will well be on its way.

Artist Blanda headed out to Indio, Calif., over the weekend with boyfriend Joe Jonas and friends to take in Coachella - and luckily for us, she's sharing lots of cool snaps of her festival fun.

Justin Bieber is trying to ''be a better person'' and has distanced himself from ''bad influences'' ahead of his court appearance in Miami next month.

Beck performs on the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Sunday, April 13, 2014.

Bravo to Country Thunder and Weekend one of Coachella taking place from May 10 to May 13. With these two festivals, music festival season is officially underway.

Apart from a periodic "thank you" and brief introductions of the members of his four-woman, four-man band, the iconic English singer said almost nothing.

This April 12, 2014 file photo shows Jay Z at the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

When the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is playing its home base in New Orleans' French Quarter, the music is everything.

Pharrell Williams performs onstage during day 2 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2014 in Indio, California Williams' 'Happy' rules for an eighth week, while Ed Sheeran soars in with 'Sing' , instantly marking his best-ever Hot 100 rank Pharrell Williams' "Happy" leads the Billboard Hot 100 for ... (more)

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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival took over Indio, CA this past weekend and will repeat the feat this weekend.