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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘80s Hard-Rock Legend Joins the Go-Go's in Vegas
The virtual lovefest between and the Go-Go's singer continued Thursday, May 15, but this time the rest of Carlisle's band got involved. A post on the former Van Halen frontman's Instagram account shows the veteran hard rocker surrounded by all five members of the iconic '80s all female band (bassist Kathy Valentine, Carlisle, drummer Gina Schock, and guitarists Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey) as Hagar tries to round up the gang for a photo. 'The first shot, Go-Go's only,' Hagar is heard saying in the clip. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 In the next slide of the carousel, Hagar announces, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here with the Go-Go's and guess what, we got the beat!' he said, referencing the band's signature 1981 hit. 'oh my goodness, we almost went back to the 80s before the show 😁 @officialgogos absolutely rocked tonight. So much fun. #girlsgirlsgirls they still got it!' Hagar captioned the was visiting the band backstage at the Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, where the band performed on May 15. However, he didn't make it up to the stage to perform with the band, unlike Green Day frontman , who joined the band onstage during their set on April 11, the opening weekend at Coachella. That followed Carlisle's visit to see Hagar at his Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM earlier in the week. He wraps up his residency with shows May 16 and 17. The Go-Go's and Hagar have been circling in the same orbit recently. The band known for such hits as 'Our Lips Are Sealed' and 'Vacation' performed at Coachella on April 11 and 18, while Hagar played Stagecoach, the country version of Coachella, the following weekend, at the same location in Indio, Calif.
Los Angeles Times
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Photos: Scenes from the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Music fans get sprayed with a water canon at Do Lab on the first day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) Two people pass a mister to keep cool. Benson Boone and Queen guitarist Brian May on the Coachella Stage at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 11. 1 2 3 4 1. Indio, CA - April 11: Music fans get sprayed with a water canon at Do Lab on the first day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Friday, April 11, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) 2. Meg Hope twirls daughter Calliope Hope-Williams, 9 months of New Zealand. 3. Chuchi Janes stands in front of the art installation Take Fly. 4. Music fans get sprayed with a water canon. Aquite performs at Do Lab on the first day of the Coachella. Cherilyn and Adele, 6, in fairy outfits with Peter S enjoying frozen ice. Gustavo Luna of Manteca dressed in black leather, jumping off a flower installation. Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's. Jane Wiedlin, left, and Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's. Music fans enjoying Benson Boone perform. A camper and canopies are reflected in the lake as they head back to their campground. Campers are silhouetted as they arrive on the first night of Coachella.
NBC News
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
The Coachella festival kicks off this weekend. Here's how to watch from home.
Don't have tickets for the 2025 Coachella festival? Don't worry! You can catch all the action on the Coachella livestream on YouTube. Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Travis Scott and Green Day headline the annual music festival, which takes place over two weekends in Indio, California. Charli XCX, Missy Elliott, T-Pain, Megan Thee Stallion, Weezer and the Go-Go's are also advertised to perform along with dozens of other music acts. Read on for what to know about Coachella 2025, including how to watch from home. When and where is Coachella 2025? The 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place across multiple stages over two weekends — April 11-13 and 18-20 — at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. How can I watch Coachella 2025 live from home? Music lovers can watch Coachella's live music performances as they happen on the Coachella livestream on YouTube. The festival also has a livestream app where you can view the full schedule and watch performances on demand. Who is headlining Coachella 2025 and who else is playing? Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Travis Scott and Green Day headline this year's Coachella. Charli XCX, T-Pain, Benson Boone, Missy Elliott, Lola Young, Megan Thee Stallion, Shaboozey, Ed Sheeran, Weezer, the Go-Go's, Kraftwerk and more than 100 other acts are also advertised to perform at the festival this year. Weezer is scheduled to play the first weekend while Sheeran is scheduled to play the second weekend. Fans had wondered about Weezer's status for the festival after Jillian Lauren Shriner, an author and the wife of the band's bassist, Scott Shriner, was shot by police and accused of attempted murder this week. A source close to the band can confirm it is still expected to play Coachella this weekend. Previously announced performers FKA Twigs and Anitta have dropped out of this year's festival. When are the set times for the festival's headliners for its first weekend? Lady Gaga will perform at 11:10 p.m. PT on Friday, April 11. Green Day will perform at 9:05 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 12. Travis Scott is scheduled to perform at 11:40 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 12. Post Malone is set to perform at 10:25 p.m. PT on Sunday, April 13.
Los Angeles Times
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The Go-Go's are back again, still real, raw and ready for Coachella and Cruel World
Perhaps no one is more excited about the reunited Go-Go's upcoming slate of high-profile gigs than Gina Schock. The 67-year-old drummer missed the band's last big Los Angeles shows — in 2022 at the Arena and a three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in 2018 — due to health issues that required surgery on her thumb and to fuse three vertebrae together in her neck, respectively. Now, however, Schock is healthy and looking forward to powering the band through a club set at one of their old haunts, the Roxy, on April 9, and then April 11 and April 18 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. After playing dates in San Francisco and Las Vegas, they'll wrap it up at the Cruel World festival in Pasadena on May 17, making the Go-Go's one of the few bands to play the larger, more eclectic and current Indio, Calif., festival and the '80s-leaning Pasadena fest in the same calendar year. Their Coachella dates are headlined by Lady Gaga, while Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds top the bill at Cruel World. It all seems to make sense since the Go-Go's bridge the gap between the pop leanings of Gaga and the L.A. punk scene that shared similar sensibilities with Cave's early work with the Birthday Party. Four-fifths of the band reunited for a rehearsal in Los Angeles in mid-February that left Schock pumped up. 'I was very excited to be playing because I've been practicing for months. I haven't played with the band for eight years,' she says via Zoom from San Francisco, her home since 2005. Over the years, the Go-Go's have reunited from time to time. In 2016, they staged what was billed as a farewell tour, leaving the door open to occasional future live dates, but no more full tours. The last time they played a festival comparable to Coachella was in January 1985 at Rock in Rio in Brazil, when the band was on their last legs after their incredibly successful first run. They exploded out of the Los Angeles club scene, scored a record deal with the then-fledgling IRS Records and topped the album chart in 1982 with their debut album, 'Beauty and the Beat,' which blended their punk energy with pop sensibilities in the hits 'Our Lips Are Sealed' and 'We Got the Beat.' Incredibly, it remains the only album by an all-female band that plays their own instruments to top the Billboard album chart. Yet by 1985, after two other successful albums, 1982's 'Vacation' and 1984's 'Talk Show,' the band was falling apart due to jealousy over songwriting credits, compensation, substance abuse and mismanagement. Wiedlin, who had a hit collaboration with Sparks on the song 'Cool Places' in 1983, left in October 1984, so Valentine slid over to guitar and the band recruited Paula Jean Brown to play bass for their two sets at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil, which drew more than 250,000 people each day. After those shows, the rest of the band flew home, but guitarist-songwriter Charlotte Caffey stayed in Brazil for a week, attempting to work through her drug addiction. 'It was such a weird feeling that whole week,' Caffey says of that time in Rio. 'I got home, and I dropped my own self off at a drug and alcohol hospital in South Pasadena,' she recalls. Four decades later, she's still sober. 'That's the most important thing ever that I did in my life,' she says. 'All the people that worked there took bets on who would go out first,' she says of the staff at the rehab facility. 'Of course, I was No. 1, and I'm the only one that stayed sober.' The most private Go-Go, Caffey isn't on social media like her bandmates. 'The worst possible thought in my mind is having people following me,' she says in a Zoom interview from her Los Angeles home that she started with her camera off. 'I always loved writing the songs and performing,' she adds, 'but I didn't love all the stuff, like the fame. I'm not that public person. I love looking at what the other girls are doing. I find out when we're not working together. I look at their socials and I'm like, 'Oh, that looks really fun.' I'm just more private.' It's not surprising that the Go-Go's use social media to keep up with each other these days. Caffey, who penned the band's 1982 No. 2 hit 'We Got the Beat,' is the only band member still in L.A., where she lives with her husband since 1993, Redd Kross guitarist Jeff McDonald. Singer Belinda Carlisle, 66, has lived with her husband Morgan Mason, a former political advisor and entertainment executive, in Mexico City for four years and outside the U.S. since 1994. Valentine recently relocated to St. Alban, England, near London, while Wiedlin was living on the big island in Hawaii but recently relocated to Berkeley in search of better treatment for the long COVID that has been dogging her for more than a year. The Go-Go with the most successful solo career with hits 'Heaven Is a Place on Earth,' 'I Get Weak' and 'Mad About You,' Carlisle recently announced live dates in Germany, Belgium and the U.K. for fall, after playing in Australia and England last year. Yet, she acknowledges she owes it all to the Go-Go's. 'If it wasn't for the Go-Go's, I wouldn't have a solo career. That's just a fact and I know that,' she says in a Zoom interview from Mexico City. 'The whole story of it even happening is something that I think is extraordinary,' she says of the band she co-founded in 1978 with Wiedlin and original bassist Margot Olavarria and drummer Elissa Bello. 'I'm really proud of that because we really worked hard. The band happened against all odds.' Perhaps nothing sums that up better than the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. Foo Fighters, which include guitarist Pat Smear, another refugee from the L.A. punk scene, were also inducted that year. Before Carlilse joined the Go-Go's, she had a brief stint as the singer of the Germs with Smear on guitar. 'I have a picture of me, Jane, Pat Smear and Belinda standing there,' Caffey says, 'And we were looking at each other like, 'You realize this was never a thought in our minds back then.'' Caffey then flashes back to a memory with Smear and his bandmate, frontman Bobby Pin, who had not yet adopted the new moniker Darby Crash. They asked her how old she was. She can't recall her answer but remembers Smear's response back in 1978: 'You're too old to be a punk.' At 71, Caffey is the oldest Go-Go, but when she does turn on her Zoom camera, she has a youthfulness that belies her age. Like many, she says the COVID 'lockdown messed with my mind' and she stopped focusing on music for a stretch. Yet playing the Go-Go's songs in her downstairs home studio 'has opened up this whole creative thing for me now. I feel like I'm ready to create again,' she says. Over in the U.K., Valentine, 66, is also going through a creative renaissance. The songwriter-bassist-guitarist who brought the Go-Go's the top 10 hit 'Vacation,' is performing as a solo artist. She's also started a new all-star, all-female band with Baseball Project drummer Linda Pitmon, singer-guitarist Brix Smith of the Fall and Pogues bassist-singer Cáit O'Riordan called Psycher, and is getting ready to start writing a sequel to her acclaimed 2020 book 'All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir.' 'I feel like I'm 16 and I'm gonna make it in the music biz,' she says during a Zoom interview. She's also come to recognize the full impact of the Go-Go's legacy after a recent trip to Vienna to visit Lenny Kravitz and his guitarist and her former roommate Craig Ross. 'Lenny was introducing me to a younger person just going off about the Go-Go's. 'No, you don't understand. They were the biggest band in the world!' And I'm like, 'No, we weren't.' And he goes, 'Yes, you were the biggest band in the world!' I'm just kind of always still surprised at the cultural reach of the Go-Go's.' Reached by phone in San Francisco, Wiedlin, 66, is also pleasantly surprised by the renewed interest and activity surrounding the band over the last decade, including the 2018 Broadway musical 'Head Over Heels' featuring their songs and the 2020 debut of the documentary 'The Go-Go's' at the Sundance Film Festival, which led to the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. 'And now Coachella and Cruel World, which I never thought we'd be asked to do,' she says. Since she's undergoing treatment for the lingering effects of long COVID, Wiedlin was unable to make it to the band's L.A. rehearsal in late February, but has been getting together to play with fellow Bay Area resident Schock and plans to reunite with the band for rehearsals before the Roxy gig. She, like other members of the band, is pleased to see new acts like fellow L.A.-based all-female rockers the Linda Lindas carry the torch, and hopes that others arise to keep rock 'n' roll alive. 'You have the whole phenomenon of groups that don't write and don't play instruments, and it's more about dancing and looking good,' she says. 'That's fine, but being an older person, I really appreciate rock 'n' roll, loud guitars and people playing instruments. That's something I love, and I would hate for that to go away entirely.' 'I'm very proud of our band,' she adds. 'We've never used backing tracks or anything. We're very raw live and we're very real.'
