Dr. Dre will close the 2012 edition of the annual Indio festival, to be held for the first time over consecutive weekends, the first April 13-15 and the second April 20-22. Headliners for the multi-weekend, six-day affair include rock acts the Black Keys, Radiohead and the Shins, as well hip-hop and dance acts Snoop Dogg, the Swedish House Mafia and Kaskade, among many others.

Tickets were initially sold for the 2012 festival nearly a year in advance of the event. Three-day passes went on sale via Coachella’s official site for one week in June. In prior years, tickets were not …

Dr. Dre brought the west Coast overseas at the 2011 MNET Asian Music Awards in Singapore. Dre linked up with his pal Snoop Dogg for a rare performance of their classic “The Next Episode.”

Watch the Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre of “The Next Episode” live performance at the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
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Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre arrive at the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on November 29, 2011 in Singapore. (Photos by Chris McGrath/Hester Tan) Click here for more pictures.
   

The west has invaded France! Look who we spotted at rehearsal for the Beats By Dre concert with Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Warren G. at GOTHA nightclub in Cannes, France.

Snoop Dogg just brought out special guest Dr. Dre at the Beats By Dre concert in Cannes, France!

The evening began with a tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, but by the time the last of the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards was handed out on Feb. 13, several other singers and bands looked something like royalty. Foremost among them was Lady Antebellum, which walked away with three trophies while the group members earned two more each for songwriting categories.
Leading the nominees with 10 nods revolving around Recovery, an album that detailed his struggles with addiction but also reestablished him as a rap force to be reckoned with, Eminem took home trophies for Best Rap Album …

Eminem, whose new album is expected to top the U.S. pop chart next week, made a rare appearance at a music-industry bash on Friday to honor Dr. Dre, the hip-hop pioneer who made him a superstar.
Dr. Dre received the Founders Award for career achievement during performing rights group ASCAP’s annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards ceremony at a Beverly Hills hotel. Dr. Dre rose to fame in the 1980s as a member of rap group N.W.A. before going solo and launching Death Row Records. He also shepherded the careers not only of Eminem, but also 2Pac, Snoop Dogg …

Dr. Dre was forced to scrap an onstage reunion with rappers and Eminem and Snoop Dogg at the last minute after his bodyguards were involved in a car accident.
Snoop Dogg was to be joined by “surprise guests” Dre and Eminem when he took the stage for the Our World Live concert in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to the New York Daily News.
But Dre bowed out after his security staff crashed their car in bad weather, and the rapper was advised not to attend without bodyguards.
And Snoop was left to hit the stage solo when Eminem also pulled out …