Coachella, April 25-27 in Indio, CA

The entire three-day festival lineup with set times can be found HERE.

Coachella is not denying it anymore. Tickets are still on sale. (thx Jason).

No word on which day he will crash the party, but Prince will be added to the lineup for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which runs April 25-27 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, sources tell me.* No confirmation from the artist's websites, which seem to be down (or under construction) at the moment. But this certainly adds some meat to the the festival's slightly protein-starved roster.

Correction: Coachella co-producers AEG Live have responded to this post. Brandon K. Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, writes in an email: "Paul Tollett, the head of our Goldenvoice division and our partner in the festival, just called to tell me that the LA Times put on their blog that Prince was playing Coachella. This is absolutely not true... Regardless of what the Times was told, there is no commitment from Prince to play Coachella." Stay tuned.... this is the Purple One we're talking about, so anything could happen.

Goldfrapp and Aphex Twin were recently announced as additions to the lineup, as well as Serj Tankian, Redd Kross, Kate Nash and Adele. [LA Times]

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Prince gave Alicia Keys an award

Daft Punk's official post-Grammy press photo below...

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Repetitious images captured Stevie Wonder's Madison Square Garden concert on Saturday because photographers were allowed only minutes to take pictures of Mr. Wonder, who performed with his daughter, Aisha Morris, and others. [NY Times]

"...Yes, Prince came out to play guitar during "Superstition" but they pretty much buried his guitar in the mix until he took a solo which was short and nothing special. And honestly for what Prince has been doing lately to his fans on the internet i really hope people post pictures and videos of him from tonite all over the place. Tony Bennett on the other hand was great as he always is..." [Anonymous]

Lawyers for Prince have ordered several of the superstar's biggest fan sites to remove any image that bears his likeness, prompting fans to form a group to fight the demands.

Three websites, housequake.com, princefams.com and prince.org have come together to form 'Prince Fans United' in response to the situation, which even sees demands to remove images of fans' own tattoos. [NME]

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Dan Rather @ SXSW 2007

* Dan Rather making a stand with lawsuit
* Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked
* Prince v. YouTube: A Violet Video Vendetta
* Richie Ramone Sues Over Song Downloads
* Verizon Re-enables Reggae Ringtones from Bob Marley

Prince has been busy lately. He played a special, but cut-short show in his hometown. His halftime show was just nominated for two Emmys, and he has a new album out (7/24) which he gave away for free in the UK to help promote the 21 shows he is playing in London, and which he did not release on the Starbucks label. Stream it @ MSN, and oh yeah - perfume too???