Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator and Doja Cat make up the newest class of Coachella headliners for the 2024 festival, joined by an unexpected No Doubt reunion. Organizers announced the list of performers on Tuesday. Coachella will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio for two weekends — April 12 to April 14, and April 19 to April 21.  Other notable performers include Peso Pluma, J Balvin, Ice Spice, Jhené Aiko, Sabrina Carpenter, Reneé Rapp and more, according to a Coachella press release. Presale registration for passes begins on Friday at 11 a.m. PT. Presale does not guarantee pass ty ..read more

Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will hit the stage as headliners at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Organizers announced the hefty list of performers Tuesday. The festival will run for two weekends between April 14-16 and April 21-23 in Indio, Calif. Other notable performers include Rosalia, Calvin Harris, Gorillaz, Pusha T, Bjork, Becky G, SG Lewis, Burna Boy, Earthgang, Labrinth and Chemical Brothers. TV Girl, who are set to perform on Friday, will be repping San Diego in the desert this year. Bad Bunny is expected to perform on both Fridays, Blackpink will go on both Sat ..read more

According to Lizzo, “Truth Hurts,” but the latest tour news is the opposite: The three-time Grammy award-winning artist has released the dates of a second North American leg of the Special 2our, and San Diego will be the penultimate stop on Lizzo’s the schedule. Lizzo will be joined by tourmate and opener Latto. Winner of Season 1 of the series The Rap Game, Latto is known for her hip-hop rap music and you may have heard her song “Big Energy” which went viral on TikTok. Fans will need to be patient, though: The duo won’t be stopping in San Diego until May 25, 2023, which should give tickethold ..read more

Last Tuesday, the San Diego-based pop-punk band Blink-182 took the music world by storm when they announced they were reuniting with their original frontman and, yeah, were dropping a new album and would soon kick off a world tour in Tijuana before returning to San Diego later in the year and then heading back out. A week later, Blink are giving locals another shot if they missed out when tickets went on sale last Friday, adding a second San Diego date. Blink-182 World Tour In true Blink-182 fashion, their announcement video was chock-full of innuendos to notify the public that they are coming ..read more

Thousands of music fans attended thousands of concerts at downtown San Diego’s 4th & B club over the years before its closure. The club, which had a capacity north of 1,000 guests, sat silent for nearly a decade, with glimmers of hope flickering and fading. In 2013, a sign went up on the marquee — Redefining Awesome.com — alerting the neighborhood that Avalon San Diego would be opening, but that EDM satellite of the LA mothership club never landed. The building that became 4th & B was originally a bank, but after opening its doors in 1994, the music venue hosted more than 3,000 shows ..read more

When you get to whatever far-flung location you traveled to Indio, California, from, people hit you right away with, “How was Coachella?” Could be your spouse, could be a neighbor; they always ask that same simple question. The answer is more complicated and depends on when you get asked. Sunday night? You might get a 1,000-yard stare and a grunt. It takes time to know how Coachella was. You have to get the dust and dirt off, you have to re-hydryate, you have to, well, blow your nose. A lot. It’s no exaggeration to say Coachella is a living thing, I had lots of worries about what would m ..read more

On Tuesday evening on Shelter Island, scenesters handed out San Diego Music Awards for the 31st time, with longtime local performer Sara Petite cleaning up with three awards, including Album of the Year, for her “Rare Bird” release. Roughly 1,000 members of the San Diego music scene — bands, club operators, fans and musicians’ family members — turned out for the outdoor event, held again this year at Humphrey’s By the Bay. Twenty-eight awards were handed out, including one to jazz singer Jesse Davis, who claimed the Lifetime Achievement Award. Riston Diggs won for Best Hip Hop/Rap Artist and B ..read more

Pop superstar Elton John announced Tuesday that he will perform a concert at Petco Park in San Diego in November as part of his upcoming farewell tour. The concert will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 9. John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour in North America and Europe will begin May 27 in Frankfurt, Germany. The superstar announced last year that his final shows in the United States would be at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 19-20, 2022. He updated the tour list Tuesday to add several dates, including the San Diego concert and another date at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 17. “I am loving every m ..read more

More than two years after postponing a tour scheduled in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, Seattle grunge legends Pearl Jam have announced a set of appearances, including a stop in San Diego in May, it was announced Monday. The Seattle-based band — one of the first major acts to pull the plug on concerts amid coronavirus concerns — will play Viejas Arena May 3. The rescheduled shows are among 14 that are slated for the band’s national tour, which runs from May through September. Additional dates have been added in Fresno, Sacramento, Vegas and Camden, New Jersey. The multi-Grammy-win ..read more

North Park resident Ben Smith is no Lego master builder. Instead, his — hobby? passion? obsession? — began as a way to visit places he missed going to during the pandemic. Since then, the native of Brisbane, Australia, has created dozens of North Park “builds” — so many, in fact, he’s set to hold an exhibition soon to raise money for Feeding San Diego and Youth FarmWorks. So, how bad has it gotten for Ben? Well, he’s got bins on top of bins — dozens? hundreds? — full of the little plastic bricks. Pressed, he speculates he’s spent between $10,000 and $20,000 on Legos, “but not six figures,” he ..read more