Coachella

With collars popped and sporting the breezy appeal of Old Spice models, Vampire Weekend played the sundown set on the main stage at Coachella on Sunday. In some ways the band, with its peppy instrumentalism and expert world-music riffs, represents the second coming of yacht rock. The band has the allure of a Cape Cod summer. It's easy to imagine these guys on a sailboat, taking off from Hyannis Port, drifting to picnics on shores unknown where waiters in crisp white cotton pants serve up a hot clam bake, complete with lobster tail and corn.

Southern Californians who missed Vampire Weekend at Coachella over the last two weekends will get another chance to see the New York indie-pop band before long. On Sept. 28, Vampire Weekend is to play the Hollywood Bowl, the venerable outdoor venue announced Monday, adding to a summer season that already includes shows by She & Him with Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell (on June 23), Damian & Stephen Marley (on June 30) and Diana Ross (on Aug. 3). Tickets for the concert -- which will also feature Beirut, the globe-tripping gypsy-folk band led by singer-songwriter Zach Condon -- go on sale May 4. Following closely on its Coachella appearances, Vampire Weekend is set to release a new studio album, "Modern Vampires of the City," on May 14. The disc was recorded partly in L.A. with producer Ariel Rechtshaid and serves as the anticipated follow-up to 2010's "Contra," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Look for a feature on Vampire Weekend in Calendar in the coming weeks, and listen to "Step," from the new album, below.

Judging by the title of his new tour, Bob Dylan's droll self-awareness remains intact. The singer-songwriter is joining younger acolytes Wilco and My Morning Jacket on what Dylan is deeming the AmericanaramA Festival of Music. The exciting triple bill connects the lines between generations of American acts who use folk as a starting point to explore the full range of American music. Dylan, of course, needs no introduction. But teaming up with the experimental Chicago act Wilco and the Southern-soul explorers My Morning Jacket instantly makes this package tour one of the year's must-see shows.  PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners The tour starts June 26 in West Palm Beach, Fla., and ends Aug. 4 in Mountain View, Calif.

Goldenvoice recently reached a long-term agreement with the desert city of Indio to stage its Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club through at least 2030. But what, if anything, does that mean for Arizona's Zia Records, the pop-up shop that's been a regular at Coachella since troubles with the Virgin Megastore in the late '00s? GM Brian Faber says talks with Goldenvoice won't pick up until the conclusion of next week's Stagecoach, but he pointed to new lighting fixtures and a new sign out front.

2 Chainz's tour bus is almost a disappointment. After its packed set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival early Saturday afternoon, you expect revelry. This is, after all, a rapper who has based his persona on three topics: busty strippers, drugs and flashiness. But the bus for the 35-year-old born Tauheed Epps -- formerly known by a semi-unprintable name -- is surprisingly low-key. Despite anthems tailor made for strip clubs and college parties, there's no chaos. No scantily clad women hanging around (two pretty girls passed through awkwardly)

Fans who stayed on the polo field until nearly 1 a.m. Sunday for the very end of French electro-rock band Phoenix's set probably did so because of the rumor that French house-music duo Daft Punk was going to make a surprise appearance. No such luck. Last week the same rumor circulated, but with a tasty surprise center in that R&B and hip-hop king R. Kelly made a totally unexpected appearance with Phoenix. Maybe the Daft Punk rumor was planted as a red herring to keep the R. Kelly thing a secret.

Jay Mascis plays the most satisfyingly whiny, teen-angst-filled laments on his guitar. The sound - like a weary, taut wail - perfectly matches his sorrowful, oddly atonal voice. His once-black hair is still long and still hangs in his face. Only now it's gray: a harbinger of what lies ahead for the band's core group of thirty- and fortysomething hardcore fans (if it hasn't arrived already), for whom skating suburban pools and skipping school has given way to office cubicles. Early on Saturday evening at Coachella, Mascis seemed more present as a performer than ever before.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is considered one of the music industry's premier festivals, connecting the dots between musical generations and genres with a diverse lineup that attracts fans from around the globe. But the festival, which cloned itself into two weekends starting last year as a way to deal with its capacity crowds, seemed anything but connected with the rest of the world when it ended its 2013 run Sunday. In the four days between its two-weekend run, two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring scores more.

Major Lazer, like many dance-hall and EDM artists, traffics in nostalgia via sentimental '80s and '90s samples. New Order, a band that helped forge the sound of dance music decades ago, traffics in the nostalgia of its own songs. At Coachella on Saturday night, the former was more effective than the latter. Evidence of that was apparent from the crowd's reaction during Diplo's sundown set with Major Lazer, which was packed to bursting with frenzied fans. Candy-coated samples from the likes of House of Pain, Eurythmics, and, gasp, Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” were employed to great sentimental effect.

After cameras zoomed in on the Boston flag, Celtic punk band the Dropkick Murphys launched into “For Boston,” the band's rowdy, over-before-you-know-it cover of the Boston College fight song. Playing this show at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, said founder Ken Casey, is part of the healing process, The bassist/singer had earlier confessed that the Boston-bred band had considered canceling its Coachella performance after the Boston Marathon bombings left three dead and scores more injured.