This sick photo was taken at Coachella by  @asherhunt.

KROQ House

Everybody, and I mean errbody is gonna be raging at the KROQ Coachella House. Last weekend they have every major act swing through for a set: Florence and the Machine, The Black Keys, The Shins, nearly everyone I listed above as my must-sees. Plus, I’ve got an appointment with the Doctor… Dr. Martens is kicking it poolside too.

Desert Gold: Roadside Attraction at the Ace Hotel

If you’re still out in the desert, wander to the Ace Hotel where they’re still partying strong, even now! Both weekends and all week are jam packed with artists like Jeremy Sole, The Do-Over, Secret Circuit, Darek Mazzone of KEXP, Peaking Lights, Awesome Tapes from Africa, DJ Rupture, Chief Boima, Luke Top of Fool’s Gold and so many more acts. And as it’s the Ace Hotel, the pool is simply dripping with swagger. $25 Fri, Sat, Sun. $20 during the week. 

SKYY Infusions Coconut Escape

New Swedish collective Ingrid Soundsystem will have all day DJ sets from Lykke Li, Peter, Bjorn and John and members of Miike Snow, among rad others. Free flowing SKYY Infusions Coconut vodka from SPiN magazine will keep it raucous poolside. Discover customizable Beats by Dre, snag some Havaianas, and drink a lot while cooling off. And a little birdie tells me über undead hottie Alexander Skarsgard will show his pretty partying face.  Saturday, April 21^st from 12 – 6 PM at the Renaissance Esmeralda Hotel in Indian Wells

Rolling Stone Rock Room

Rolling Stone is taking over a Palm Springs Motel, transforming it into the Rolling Stone Rock Room to host a weekend’s worth of Rock Room artist interview, DJ sets, acoustic performances, ping pong tournaments with SPiN Galactic, pop up photo/art exhibits, and more.  Havaianas be poolside for it all, offering up Make Your Own Havaianas and the 2012 collection for sale.  April 20^th- 22^nd at the Riviera in Palm Springs

Desert Daze

Raging FREE all week, (albeit without a pool) is a mini festival for those double weekenders with tents and a mountain of… adrenaline. It’s freaking packed with music and guaranteed wildness from local acts like Electric Flower Group, Dead Meadow, Akron/Family, The Entrance Band, Here We Go Magic and a whole raging roster. It’s a real festival with art installations, workshops and yummy foodtrucks. It’s your festival away from festival, and a place to go when you’re tweakin’ after hours, or at 10AM. At Dillon’s Roadhouse, presented by Moon Block Party.

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And for an added treat, the trailer from Dallesandro’s star-making vehicle, Flesh.

Link Love: WWD

Winner: Sarah Jessica Parker Her January Elle, August Vogue, and September Marie Claire covers are the 2nd or 3rd bestsellers of each mag this year.

Loser: Justin Bieber His Vanity Fair cover is the lowest selling issue since Graydon Carter took over in 1992. Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue and People similarly bombed.

Winner: Lady Gaga Mother Monster's Vogue cover was Anna Wintour's second best-selling issue, while her March Harper's Bazaar is Glenda Bailey's third top performer.

Loser: Lady Gaga However, no one wants to see a pared-down, bare-faced Gaga and the October issue of Bazaar is its third worst performer.

Winner: Mila Kunis A breakout year for the actress delivered GQ's biggest-selling issue from August and a 15% increase for a struggling W with her March cover. A turn on Cosmopolitan and a shared cover with Justin Timberlake on Elle in August also proved to be hits.

Loser: Justin Timberlake JT's cover with Mila might have been a hit for Elle, but his W cover with Amanda Seyfried was the mag's 2nd worst seller, while his solo cover for Esquire in October was its worst seller of the year.

Winner: Jennifer Aniston Alleged sexiest woman of all time, Aniston was also Marie Claire's top seller of the year and her November Elle is on track to be one of its biggest hits.

Loser: Michelle Williams The My Week with Marilyn star's Vogue cover and her Marie Claire cover were each mag's second and third worst-performing covers, respectively.

Winner: Kim Kardashian Kim delivered Glamour's bestseller of the year with her February cover, but a lot happened between then and now...

Loser: The Kardashians While Kim's Harper's Bazaar, Self and Lucky covers were mild hits, the January 2012 issue of Glamour featuring sisters Khloe and Kourtney is on track to bomb Bieber-style.

Ogilvy & Mather and Cool Hunting created 30 short videos, each 20 to 90 seconds long, profiling members of the Gap 1969 denim studio in Los Angeles, as well as going behind the scenes of the design and manufacturing process.

“Increasingly, people want to know the stories behind the products — who’s designing it, where it comes from,” said Seth Farbman, Gap’s global chief marketing officer. “We recognize that we have to be more open. We had not done enough storytelling about what was new and different at the Gap.”

The videos debut this week at Cool Hunting and Refinery29 followed by sponsored content next week on DailyCandy, FabSugar, Hulu, Pandora and Gap’s Facebook page among other sites.

The print ads will star “real-ish” [read: a half-inch short of model] people in Gap 1969 pants and will run in the September issues of seemingly every mag including Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Nylon, Details, GQ, Rolling Stone, Marie Claire and ESPN. [WWD]

*Bands. No solo acts were considered for this list. Or we all know Bowie would be up here.

#10 - NIRVANA

Kurt Cobain embodies the grunge revolution of the nineties. He synced the music to the laying low layered baggy flannel I-couldn’t-care-less look. It was an anti-fashion statement, a call to his own philosophy with reckless comfort, and thus it became fashion.

#9 – GUNS N ROSES

Of the glam metal hair bands that existed in thick of the eighties, Axel Rose and his lusciously locked bandmates were some of the most authentic in the genre. Their punk tinged solid rocker look made their shaggy manes manly. Power leather, head banging bandanas, faded shrunken graphic tees and hand cut effects complement their genuine rockstar songs.

#8 THE KILLERS

The intrinsic cool of Brandon Flowers emanates throughout The Killers. They create the kind of music that so easily sounds contrived when attempted by others, and the same goes for their look. Their polished quality with major statement, like feather shoulders or fur jackets, embodies both music and style in the best light.

#7 – OUTKAST

Big Boi keeps it hood. André 3000 blasts it into the future while tossing around a twenties vibe. He raised his waistline when no one else did and created mayhem with his look in “Hey Ya!” Their music is as smooth and superfast-paced as their appearance.

#6 – THE CLASH

As key players in the original wave of British punk, their shredded, zipped and right tight aesthetic weighed heavily in the formation of the genre. Their politically driven lyrics are backed by their F-you look and general badassery.

#5 – MGMT

This psych rock group from the here and now is a major reason that American Apparel stocked its shelves with blinding neon. Their exceptional style leads Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser to experimentation and wild inspiration. For instance, on their website a fan asks, “What inspired the fashion choice for Lolla[palooza] in Grant Park? You looked pretty hot in those jackets. (In every sense of the word.) Amazing.” Andrew’s answer? Quite amazing indeed.

#4 – LED ZEPPELIN

Gah, it’s effortless. The unbuttoned bare chested sexiness of Robert Plant is only upped by the fur collared leather trench of John Bohnam, complemented by the multi-tonal jacket on John Paul Jones and completed by Jimmy Page‘s slick tweed. Their ever present style had the same air as their music; the loudest, most soulful wails and riffs and rips always rode the chillest undercurrent.

#3 – JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE

Jimi Hendrix dressed like the psychedelic royalty he was. Purple and mind altering patterns enwrapped him as he lit guitars on fire, shredded it with his teeth, and as LSD dripped down from the scarf tied around his head (allegedly). The Experience was a spectacle; heady music enhanced tenfold by the showmanship of Hendrix.

#2 – THE ROLLING STONES

The Stones are the greatest vaudeville act of all time, never ceasing. Clothing slings on their rockstar bodies with ease, as does some of the greatest rock and roll ever performed pour out of them. They started out, much like The Beatles and every early British Invasion band thereafter in straight suits and matching haircuts. With time and money they evolved into wearing spectacle-worthy designer pieces like Mick Jagger’s Prada cock feather fedora or these pants. Keith Richards sparked the eyeliner earringed look that Johnny Depp so famously adopted for Captain Jack Sparrow. Undeniable sex appeal lies as much in their music as in style of larger than life, gender bending (yet deeply masculine) cool. And they’re still at it now.

#1 – THE BEATLES

The boys who brought rock and roll to the masses went through a series of evolutions in their seven years as a band. They began clean cut and mop topped, singing sweet yet earth shaking songs of holding hands, sharing secrets, twisting and shouting above the echoing shrieks and screams of crazed fans across the globe.  Always the epitome of class, they experimented with the finest suiting in the world, and it was Pierre Cardin who introduced them to the Indian Nehru jacket. Once they receded from the touring spotlight, they blossomed further as style icons. Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour brought psychedelia to the forefront with neon military regalia, wild paisleys, beads, thin chains, moustaches and acid. Onto The White Album, which they wrote most of while practicing transcendental meditation in an ashram, they developed further spiritually and grew into newer versions of themselves. John Lennon was looking more like Jesus every day, and solidifying his round spectacle staple. Paul McCartney kept charmingly classy, now paring back the brights. George Harrison grew ever more spiritual, keeping a relaxed finery about him. Ringo was actually the most fashionably daring of the four, hamming up the giant rings and divinely accessorizing. The Beatles were indisputable trendsetters as their image and sound transformed through time, transforming the world around them.

Lady Gaga shot for Rolling Stone… out now!

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LINK LOVE:Lady GaGa in Rolling Stone (scans)

Megan Fox covers the October issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.

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Miranda Kerr does her best eco-conscious Lady Godiva for the latest issue of Australian Rolling Stone.

The Sydney-born model covers the “Green Issue” to promote her partnership with the Australian Koala Foundation’s “No Tree, No Me” campaign.  

I’m itchy just thinking about standing in the woods naked, but Miranda looks perfectly comfortable.   Meanwhile, American Rolling Stone gets Lady Gaga in bubbles instead of chains.  Sigh.

David LaChapelle captured Lady Gaga for the cover of Rolling Stone.  I understand what they were going for here, and I think the bubbles look cool, but that wig really, really bothers me.

SOURCE: PerezHilton

John-Paul Thurlow, artist and magazine cover graphic designer, is recasting his favorite covers with a bit of paper and a pencil. It’s images like these that make me wish I  could draw. Sigh. 

GALLERY: John-Paul Thurlow Goes Back To The Drawing Board

Thanks Cyana Trend Land and Pipeline!