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Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Brings-Out Fresh Line-Up of Music and Officially Kicks-off Summer 09 Festival Fashion Trends

Highlights from the kick-off of music festival season provides a sneak peak inside entertainment’s best upcoming music and arts performances.

Music Festival Season Kicks-off with Coachella, the First of Summer, Announcing Line-up and Lay-Away Ticket Plan

Music festivals and tours stay somewhat recession-proof, which sponsors are catching onto and music fans are saving for.

Detour Festival in the Streets of Los Angeles with Gogol Bordello, The Mars Volta, Hercules & Love Affair, Cut Copy, and DataRock Among Others Provide Glimpse of a Vibrant Future Downtown

Cultural revival is happening in downtown Los Angeles as it continues to establish itself as a leader of the music scene as indicated by the popularity of the Detour Music Festival.

Vans Warped Tour Press Conference Kick-off Party in Los Angeles Reveals What to Expect from North America’s Largest Longest-Running Touring Festival

This summer will mark the 14th year for the Vans Warped Tour, with the new summer theme “The Roadtrip Continues” -making it the longest and largest touring festival in North America. With more than 625,000 tickets sold to young people mostly between the ages of 13-20 last year alone, and pre-sales this year already at 24,000 (the most ever), it’s undeniable that the formula for success for this tour is worth serious attention not only to music industry players, but also sponsors, musicians, and fans.

Coachella Music Arts Festival Mixes Pioneering Performers from Prince to Portishead with Burgeoning Artists Like Metric, Data Rock, and Hot Chip, Resulting in a Ripple-Effect that Will Impact Music Culture

As the first festival of the summer circuit, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival produced by Goldenvoice, which took place last weekend April 25-27, is where you’ll see a good chunk of the bands that will be doing the festival circuit this summer. It’s also the place where new up-and-coming bands, particularly in the indie rock genre, electronica, rave, and synth are showcasing for the first time in front of larger audiences, particularly internationally as a lot of these bands will hit up the European festival circuit later in the summer.

Vans Warped Tour Kicks-off to Sold-out Capacity; Producer Kevin Lyman Hints at What to Expect from America’s Largest Running Tour

The formula for success the Vans Warped Tour is worth serious attention when you consider that it’s become the official rite-of-passage to American youth culture. The tour kicked-off in blazing heat to a sold-out capacity crowd last weekend, igniting the next break-out bands, unique sponsorship programs, and fashion styles.

Music and What Drives Trends

As we move into summer music festival and tour season, we plan on running a series of stories that have to do with music including specific bands to note in terms of trendsetting styles and influences, and the correlations that result from music in youth culture markets in North America, Europe, Japan, and China. To start, we wanted to provide a quantitative report that shows just how powerful the correlation is between music and youth culture markets.

Coachella Music Arts Festival Kicks-off Summer Styles with a Nod to Retro, Rave, Boho, Bathing Suits, Unofficially Making It THE Place to Spot Upcoming Summer Trend-Part 1

As the first festival of the summer circuit, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival produced by Goldenvoice, which took place last weekend April 25-27 in the blazing sun on the polo fields of Indio near Palm Desert, has become the unofficial kick-off point to summer season fashion.