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When you hear lead singer Michael Fitzpatrick (Fitz) belt out “don’t come back anytime, you’ve already robbed me blind.  This is your pay back, moneygrabber,” from “MoneyGrabber” off Fitz and the Tantrums‘ debut release Pickin’ Up the Pieces, you can’t help but sing along and wonder how anyone could have wronged Fitz.

Up on stage he’s fierce. He sings his heart out, dances around, and commands the crowd to get down on the ground in a way I haven’t seen a frontman do since Fred Schneider (the B-52′s) circa “Rock Lobster.”

Why you don’t want to miss Fitz and the Tantrums at Coachella.

Both weekends of Coachella 2012 are now SOLD OUT, so we thought we’d hook up some lucky KROQ fans with a pair of 3-day passes to week 2 – taking place April 20-22 at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio. Whether you like rock, indie, or dance music, there’s something for everyone.

You’ll get to check out artists like The Black Keys, Refused, M83, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Grouplove, At The Drive-In, Florence + The Machine, Kaskade, AVICII and tons more.

We’re giving you a shot at scoring these tickets by playing our Real Band/Fake Band game. There are some pretty weird names on the Coachella lineup, so it’s your job to pick out the real ones out of each group of names. Get all the answers correct and you’re automatically entered to score a pair of passes!

Play Real Band/Fake Band here.

Yesterday we proudly announced the Coachella 2012 lineup and event details – featuring artists like The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg and many, many more. Now we’re giving you one of your first shots at scoring tickets to either weekend!

Take this week’s music survey and you’ll be entered to win a pair of 3-day passes to Coachella 2012, you choose the weekend (April 13-15 or April 20-22)! Aside from possibly scoring some of these awesome passes, you’ll also be influencing what we play on-air. Make your voice heard!

START MUSIC SURVEY NOW

You’ve gotta be a member of the KROQ Street Team. Not a member? Sign up now!

This week’s survey ends at 11:00pm on 1/15/12. Contest is open to anyone who resides in the SoCal zip codes and has completed the KROQ music survey.

We’re fresh off the announcement of the Coachella 2012 lineup (see it here), and not only are we already hooking people up with 3-day passes all week long, but we’re also sending someone to the South Of France to see the headliner of day 2 in the desert – RADIOHEAD!

Listen to KROQ all week at 9am, Noon, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm. Be caller 20 at 800-520-1067 to get on the stand-by boarding list to see Radiohead in the South Of France. You’ll get round trip airfare, hotel stay, spending cash, and tickets to see Radiohead in Nimes, France on July 10th! Qualify by scoring 3-day passes to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, taking place April 13-15 & 20-22 at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio.

But guess what? You can also enter to win right here on KROQ.com!

Enter to win Coachella passes and a chance to see Radiohead in France.

We present for you the highly-anticipated 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival lineup. Coachella 2012 lineup.

With acts such as Radiohead, The Black Keys, Florence + The Machine, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, M83 and so many more, we recommend creating a schedule so you don’t miss a beat.

Held on consecutive weekends this year (April 13-15 & 20-22), you’ll see some of the most amazing artists performing live at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio.

With more than half the event already sold out due to a pre-sale last year, the upcoming general on-sale will surely blow out in a heartbeat. You’ll find all the details currently available right here.

See the flyer, full list of bands, ticket info and more.

Coachella 2012 is fast approaching, and with it, plenty of speculation of who will actually be performing this year. We use the word “speculation” loosely, because, as you will soon seen, some of these fake posters are clearly made in jest. Some, however, look pretty legitimate. So we pose this to you, KROQ listeners, which, if any, of these posters might be the real deal? Click here to see the posters. You be the judge!

Photo by Christopher Polk//Getty Images

May 31, 2011, 10:00am

COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL TO BE HELD FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE WEEKENDS

APRIL 13-15 AND APRIL 20-22.

The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will be held over two weekends (April 13-15 AND April 20-22) at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA.

Coachella 2012 will be two separate events, held over two consecutive weekends. Festival organizers will attempt to produce two identical festival weekends. That means same lineup, same art, same place, different people.

Incredible? Yes. Click for ticket info!

Photo Credit: Faith-Ann Young

Coachella is a beautiful beast. So many bands, so little time and–eventually–energy.

We might not have seen all the bands we would have wanted to like Chromeo, Two Door Cinema Club or PJ Harvey, but we got to see some of the more hyped-up bands playing the festival and weigh in on whether we think they met our subjective “expectations.”

See if you agree (or even better, disagree) and let us know how you feel in the comments!

A study of 7 Coachella hype bands.

Coachella 2011 Via Kat Corbett

performs during Day 3 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2011 held at the Empire Polo Club on April 17, 2011 in Indio, California.

By the time Day Three of Coachella had rolled around I was so incredibly tired I was sort of amazed I even made it as far as I did.

Perhaps, I should have thought twice about the level of partying I was doing post-Coachella performances.

I am young and female and at Coachella.  So let’s be realistic, if I removed fun from the equation then I might as well just be dead inside.

I spent the first half of the day covering the bands that visited the KROQ house including:  The Joy Formidable, She Wants Revenge, The Kills and Neon Trees.

Once that was over I headed over to the festival where I was greeted with lines and chaos and all things awesome, including sets by Foster The People, Tinie Tempah, The National & Ratatat.

Foster The People, Ratatat & The National

Wiz Khalifa at Coachella 2011 // Photo: Jason Schorle

Yesterday I chose to stake claim at a nice spot by the main stage at Coachella to catch a few of the great acts who would be performing there in the next few hours, including Wiz Khalifa, Nas & Damian Marley and Death From Above 1979.

I also happened to catch a bit of Duck Sauce, Ratatat and Kanye West as the third and final day of Coachella came to an end.

Read the review.

Photos by Faith-Ann Young

Back at home in Los Angeles, Coachella 2011 is officially over. Overall, it’s been a wonderful blur of decent to amazing live music, rum drinks, long sweaty walks, eye candy wearing ridiculous Native American garb, and lots of delayed texts.

Coming from the perpetual party to the 9-to-5 work grind is always a little bit hard, but we’ll always have memories of three wonderful days on the polo field, especially after Kanye West‘s mind-blowing close to the festival last night.

Coachella 2011 Review: Day 3

[Photo Gallery] Coachella 2011 Sunday…

Photos by Jason Schorle, Mirino.com