With Its New Sonora Stage, Coachella Built a DIY Venue in the Middle of Their Festival
(WorldNews Music)

A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - - Print Article “Everyone take out your phone right now and tweet at Radiohead, ‘Don’t play the state of Israel!’� shouts Joe DeGeorge, the saxophonist in Downtown Boys, an uncompromisingly political punk band from Providence, Rhode Island. Before anyone has the chance, the band launches into a burner called “Break a Few Eggs.� It’s 3:30 in the afternoon, inside an air conditioned tent just inside the Coachella gates, which has improbably been turned into a full-on facsimile of a DIY punk venue. The room, dubbed Sonora, the only new stage at Coachella this year, is walled off with...