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Get More Into Music: All year long

Friday, 20 April 2012

Summer’s ended, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the music that’s carried us along the way. Today, we’ve got a new doodle on our homepage, and a special collection of videos on youtube.com/music.

With over 60 hours of videos uploaded to YouTube every minute, there’s plenty to help you get into whatever you’re into. Back in December, we thought we’d get more into music, and invited some of our favourite musicians to guide us along the way by creating video playlists showcasing their own musical tastes.

We started in our own backyard with the Australian musicians that would take the stage at the 25th anniversary ARIA awards: Art vs. Science got into the strange & eclectic, Bluejuice found us some hidden gems and we learned what 80s anthems get The Living End Going.

And we followed some of our favourite acts around Australia this summer festival season: From the pumped up kicks, and modern-day lullabies that brought sold out crowds across Australia for Big Day Out, to big-time dream-pop to big-haired rock & roll hanging out at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Sydney.

Today, we hope you’ll enjoy revisiting some of the playlists from these musicians as much as we have. It’s easy to create your own playlists too – just log in to your YouTube account, and hit ‘add to playlist’ from any video on YouTube.
But that’s not all. You’ll notice we’re also featuring a handful of videos from some of the biggest names heading to this year’s Splendour In The Grass, including a special interview with Ladyhawke and with Kele from Bloc Party Tickets have just gone on sale but even if you can’t make it, never fear. For the second year in a row we’ll be live streaming a special collection of performances live from Byron Bay, courtesy of Virgin Mobile.

We’ll be announcing the live lineup soon. For now we hope you find plenty of music to keep you busy!

Posted by Ernesto Soriano, YouTube Australia, just watched SBTRKT Wildfire, Live from Coachella

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Coachella live stream on YouTube this weekend!

Friday, 13 April 2012

Got plans this weekend? Now you do. Settle in for some serious couch time... once again Coachella festival will be streaming live on YouTube bringing you big name acts such as Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The Shins, Bon Iver, Azelia Banks, Florence and The Machine and our very own Gotye (Aussie's represent!).

It all kicks off at 08:50am (AEST) with recent Laneway festival band GIVERS. You've got three channels to choose from including both the main stages and an interview channel with artist chats and behind the scenes footage.

You can be part of all the action live on the Coachella YouTube channel.
Here’s a taste of what to expect with a few videos from last year’s live stream:

We’ve also converted the live streaming times into AEST for you. Happy watching! Saturday timetable:08:50am – GIVERS
09:10am – honeyhoney
09:35am – Neon Indian
10:00am – Gary Clark Jr.
10:05am – Grouplove
10:25am – Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong
11:00am – Yuck
11:20am – Dawes
11:30am – Arctic Monkeys
12:10pm – Madness
1:15pm – Frank Ocean
1:50pm – Mazzy Star
2:10pm – The Rapture
2:45pm – The Black Keys
3:05pm – Explosions in the Sky
3:50pm – The Black Angels
4:20pm – Refused
5.10pm – Amon Tobin
5.25pm – Swedish House Mafia Sunday timetable: 09:00am – We Were Promised Jetpacks
09:00am – Azealia Banks
09:00am – AWOLNATION
09:50am – tUnE-yArDs
10:00am – Destroyer
10:05am – Buzzcocks
10:35am – Kaiser Chiefs
10:55am – Manchester Orchestra
11:05am – Andrew Bird
11:30am – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
11:55pm – Laura Marling
12:15pm – Squeeze
1:05pm – St. Vincent
1:10pm – The Shins
1:55pm – Kasabian
2:30pm – Bon Iver
3:20pm – Miike Snow Monday timetable: 08:20am – Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
08:25am – Wild Beasts
08:30am – Oberhofer
08:30am – Santigold
09:15am – Real Estate
09:35am – The Growlers
09:45am – Fitz and the Tantrums
10:30am – Wild Flag
11:05am – The Hives
11:15am – Beats Antique
12:10pm – The Airplane Boys
12:45pm – Justice
1:30pm – Beirut
2:30pm – Goyte
2:45pm – Modeselektor
2:45pm – Florence and the Machine
All times in AEST
Posted by Sophie Hirst, YouTube Music.