Madonna, Kanye Steal the Press at Coachella: Tool, Depeche Mode Deliver

by clorenz1 | May 3, 2006 at 12:15 pm
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NDIO, California — Approximately 100 hours of music was performed at Coachella over the weekend (12 hours times five stages times two days minus set changes), yet the desert festival's 2006 edition will likely be remembered for two Photos, audio and video from this story Touch the Sky Kanye West "Touch the Sky" Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella) Gold Digger Kanye West "Gold Digger" Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella) Sorry Madonna "Sorry" Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner Bros.) Hung Up Madonna "Hung Up" Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner Bros.) 30-minute flashes. (Check out photos from Coachella.) That's because, whether it's technically accurate to say so or not, this was the year Coachella went commercial, with pop superstars Kanye West and Madonna invited to the hipster kids' party. (Dozens of commercially successful bands, from Rage Against the Machine in 1999 to Coldplay in 2005, have played Coachella, but this was different, hence the "Madonna Killed Coachella" T-shirts seen around.)
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