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Made in America Music Festival brought to you by Jay-Z
Sounds a lot like Coachella Music Festival, but Jay-Z has announced the Budweiser Made in America Music Festival. The Festival is two-days with over 28 different musical acts, including Jay-Z head lining the event. The Festival will be held September 1st and 2nd at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Fairmount Park. Tickets go on sale May 23rd. Below look at footage from the announcement. Read the rest of this entry
Frank Ocean performs “American Wedding” at Coachella
Frank gives the world a different version of the great ballad, “American Wedding”, which originally was recorded on The Eagles’ “Hotel California”. After one of The Eagles threatened to sue Ocean for not being authorized to use the track, Frank tweeted “I guess if I play it at Coachella, it’ll cost me a couple hundred racks”. This version is not too bad either.
The Weeknd’s Coachella 2012 Performance
Coachella had so many artist, I’m sure you couldn’t catch them all. Here’s The Weeknd’s set. Enjoy!
MTV Interviews the creator behind the Tupac Hologram
People are still talking about the Tupac hologram that performed with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at the Coachella Music Festival. This performance will probably continue to be talked about until the end of time. MTV talks to the creator of the hologram:
“We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre’s vision to bring this back to life,” said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life. You can take their likenesses and voice and … take people that haven’t done concerts before or perform music they haven’t sung and digitally recreate it. The Tupac hologram was several months in the planning and took nearly four months to create in a studio and though Smith was not able to reveal the exact price tag for the illusion, he said a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off. “I can’t say how much that event cost, but I can say it’s affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around the world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country,”
If you haven’t seen the performance check it out here!
Just In Case You Missed It: Tupac performs at Coachella Music Festival with Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre
Tupac performed at Coachella. Yes, Tupac! During their set at Coachella Music Festival, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg performed alongside a hologram image of Hip-Hop legend, Tupac Shakur. Tupac performed “Hail Mary”, then joined Snoop to perform “2 of Amerika’s Most Wanted”. This has got the world buzzin’, with many people feeling mixed emotions about the performance. It was pure creative genius, but we don’t need to see a bunch of hologram performances from those that have passed on. Watch video of the performance below.
Didn’t get a chance to get tickets to Coachella? Don’t worry.
Like many of us, you probably couldn’t get tickets to the 3 day music festival Coachella. No worries, Coachella will be streaming video of various acts via their YouTube channel. The stream begins tomorrow, April 13. Be sure to check the YouTube channel for the line-up so that you don’t miss your favorite artist.
Word around town is that, not only will Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre be performing all of The Chronic, but they will also have the late, great, Nate Dogg perform with them through hologram images. Sounds dope!
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