April 9, 2010 - The Chemical Brothers and Armin Van Buuren will headline Electric Zoo: New York's Electronic Music Festival Sept. 4-5 at Randall's Island Park.
March 13, 2009 - The Chemical Brothers and The Orb are among five new acts added to the lineup for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. French dance pioneer Etienne de Crecy and his massive "Cube" stage show, freak folker Devendra Banhart, and Seattle punks Murder City Devils round out the new additions, according to Coachella Digital, a new online magazine that debuted this month.
January 7, 2005 - System of a Down has moved into the mixing stage on its "Mesmerize/Hypnotize" project, two CDs that will be released several months apart.
February 25, 2002 - British electronica duo the Chemical Brothers (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) will play a handful of U.S. shows in April, their first stateside tour in nearly three years. The pair's fourth full-length, "Come With Us" (Astralwerks), debuted in January at No. 32 on Billboard's album chart.
October 5, 1999 - In the wake of the rioting that marred Woodstock '99, a high-profile music event like the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is bound to draw heavy scrutiny. But organizers of the two-day music festival in the Southern California desert town of Indio say that they have taken steps to avoid a similar meltdown at their festival.
September 20, 1999 - One person died, two were in critical condition and eight other people were hospitalized over the weekend in drug-related incidents that Miami police are connecting to an all-night rave at the Coconut Grove Convention Center. The reports come just a month after five teenagers died in a car accident following a Los Angeles-area rave.
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is once again set to make a musical city of Indio, CA's Empire Polo Field, this time with a lineup headed by Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire and The Strokes.
