Coachella Round Up - Day Two!

Saturday morning came bright and early with the promise of lots more fun, fun, fun! The whole Yo Gabba crew headed down to the show together. Muno made sure he rested up a lot in the VIP area because seeing cool bands and meeting new friends in the raddest concert festival in the world is really hard!


Brobee ran into his old pal, Giovanni Ribisi and his daughter Lucia! Giovanni is an actor and was in some big movies! Even some of the biggest ever! He was super cool and Brobee was a happy camper. What a great way to start out the day!


Toodee was meeting new friends of her own. Here she is sneaking in a little kiss with Temper Trap singer, Dougie Mandagi! Can you blame the guy? Toodee is such a cutie!


Then it was time for the whole gang to take a stroll across the fairgrounds. They met a lot of new friends on the way who wanted to take pictures with them.


The whole crew wandered down to the Record Shop tent and just happened to run into our friend, Mark Mothersbaugh who was doing a signing with his band, Devo! Plex even got to sport a blue energy dome! Everybody, it's a good thing!


After that, Muno talked everybody else into taking a ride on the Ferris Wheel! (I think it was actually called the "Giant Wheel", probably due to some copyright laws)


Here's a better view of Muno waving to everybody. You could see for MILES from up there!


After that, Plex took a quick trip to the ATM machine. He wanted to check his balance before buying some T-shirts and was surprised to find that it printed out a fan letter! Apparently they have basic cable in ATM land as well.


So everyone headed back to the Artist Lounge to meet more of their trailer neighbors. See, all the friends they made Friday had moved on and so they had a whole slew of new friends to make! Here is Plex meeting a girl named Beth Ditto who sings in a band called The Gossip. She was super funny and made Plex LOL all over the place.


Then Plex walked over over and met this guy, Claudio Sanchez who sings for Coheed and Cambria. He was super friendly and had amazing hair. (Plex sure wished he could grow hair at all, but that's against the Official Robot Code of Conduct).


Meanwhile, Brobee was out rubbing shoulders with celebrities (does Brobee have shoulders?) and he was thrilled to meet Mr. Danny Devito! Now, Brobee is too young to remember Taxi or Twins, but he was just excited to meet someone his same height!


Muno got to meet Imogen Heap who was wearing a really cool hat! She was really nice and Muno invited her to come to Gabbaland some time. Wouldn't that be fun?


Suddenly, Brobee met up with King Khan who is in a band called King Khan and The Shrines! He was super awesome, and he loves Yo Gabba Gabba like so much! We became instant BFF's (that stands for Best Friends Forever, dontchaknow?). This wouldn't be the last we'd see of King Khan!


Meanwhile, Muno lent a hand to all the hard working roadies back behind the Outdoor Stage. They were loading up equipment for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros who totally rocked!


Toodee agreed, as she enjoyed the set on the other side of the stage, dancing with the hippies!


She felt a little bad afterwards, so she agreed to move some equipment around for Hot Chip.


Back at the Artist Lounge, Brobee was so excited to run into some of his old friends - Gaspard from Justice, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT and Christian Jacobs from The Aquabats!


Andrew asked Christian to sign his jeans...


...and it looks like YGG loves MGMT!


...and vice versa! The circle of love is complete!


Then Brobee ran into Paul Walker who also is a big hollywood actor! Not to mention a nice guy! They shared a few laughs about something or another.


Suddenly, Brobee felt a rumbly in his tumbly, so he headed over to the Cafeteria and loaded up on some healthy treats! Yes, there was a party in his tummy for sure.


Now he had the energy to go out and watch Muse, who were amazing! It was a good thing the show was outside, because they would have totally torn the roof off of the place! Great job, guys!


Brobee and Foofa totally loved it!


And of course, the evening ended with an amazing set from Devo! They were incredible!!


What an amazing day it was Saturday! What would Sunday hold in store for the Yo Gabba Gabba gang? We would soon find out!

Coachella Round Up - Day One!

Hey everybody! We hope you had a good weekend... five days ago. We've been very busy recuperating from Coachella! Resting our legs, generously applying aloe vera to our sunburns and taking naps. I think we're ready to blog about it now!

We showed up Friday morning just in time! Muno almost didn't get in!



But once all the gang was there, we saw the excited crowd who was ready to burst with anticipation.



Cardboard DJ Lance Glasses were handed out and everyone got ready for the time of their lives.



Lance soon took the stage, sharing a few songs from the show before bringing out Muno, Toodee, Brobee, Plex and Foofa to get down!



The crowd went crazy! There was a party in everyone's tummy! There was confetti! It was insane! Even the most jaded hipsters couldn't resist smiling and dancing a bit to the sounds of Yo Gabba Gabba!



The set went great and everybody had a blast. But the fun didn't end there! No, not by a longshot. We had only just begun! The Gabba Gang were sticking around for all three days to enjoy the music and meet new friends! And then suddenly, in weird twist of fate, DJ Lance met Parry Farrell!



Then we all got invited to visit Them Crooked Vultures backyard BBQ! Here's a shot of Josh Homme and Dave Grohl and they're beautiful little girls! They were super nice and the food smelled great!



Then we wandered back to our trailer and Plex took a little break in the VIP area.



After a few minutes, Plex was determined to meet all our new "dressing room neighbors". This is Chris Thompson and he plays drums for Vampire Weekend!



And this is Ezra Koenig. He's the singer for Vampire Weekend!



Muno however, decided to go out and enjoy some of the bands!



Plex met his neighbor, Ed Droste from a band called Grizzly Bear. Ed invited Plex to come and watch their set.



Plex was very grateful and they shared a big hug before they parted ways.



Then Plex took a quick hop over to the main stage where one of his favorite bands, The Specials were totally killing it! He danced on the side of the stage... until he was kindly asked to leave.



...and someone took video of it!



Then Plex headed back and met these guys from Ra Ra Riot!



Then Plex headed backstage during Passion Pit's show to get a picture with Jay-Z. He gracefully declined, but we got this one anyway.



Meanwhile, a guy named John Mayer asked to take his picture Muno.



...and then Muno ran into his friend Busy Phillips that he met at the Party in my City show. Her name is Busy!



Then Muno headed around to the front of the stage to watch Passion Pit and got a high five from Michael Angelakos, the guy who sings all their songs!



...and someone took video of it!



Plex headed back and introduced himself to his trailer neighbor, Chris Keating. He's in a band called Yeasayer who played earlier that day. And are awesome.



Around this time, Muno was out in the crowd, rocking out to his friends in Them Crooked Vultures on the big stage.



Backstage, Plex saw a sign on a door that said "LCD SOUNDSYSTEM" and was hoping there would be another robot inside. But alas, it was only this human named James Murphy who turned out to be a super cool guy anyway!



Then Plex headed over to see his friend Ed and the Grizzly Bears play, but the camera wasn't working for some reason. So after enjoying a few songs, he headed out and met this really cool french guy named Gaspard. He's in a group called Justice and they even played Coachella before once! Cool!



Then Plex stopped by the Ruth's Chris steak stand and fried up some steaks for the kids. He didn't stay too long because he didn't want to make the employees uncomfortable. Who wants their job to be replaced by a robot anyway?



Then Plex ended the night by watching his friend James' band LCD Soundsystem play under a giant disco ball! It was awasome!



The first day was incredible, and it was bound to get even better the next day! Stay tuned for Day Two!

DJ Lance at Coachella!

We're SUPER excited for our friend DJ Lance to perform at the infamous Coachella festival this year! He'll be playing tomorrow (Friday, Apr. 16th) around 2pm. It's sure to be an awesome show with lots of surprises. DON'T MISS OUT! Lance shares the bill with YGG friends such as MGMT, Devo, and Camera Obscura, as well as Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Sly Stone, Pavement, The Specials and about 150 other incredible acts during this three-day festival in the California desert.

If you can't make it, don't worry! You can always pretend you were there with this exclusive shirt-of-the-month for April: DJ LANCELLA now available at the Yo Gabba Gabba Webstore.

Impress your friends!

PHOTO OF THE DAY!!

DJ Lance Reads "Duck! Rabbit!"

DJ Lance Rock reads "Duck, Rabbit!" at yesterday's White House Easter Egg Roll!

Yo Gabba Performs at the White House!

This morning DJ Lance Rock and the gang performed at the White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington DC! The First Lady, Michelle Obama, invited YGG to perform as part of her "Let’s Move!" initiative – a national effort to combat childhood obesity. What better way to get good exercise than to jump, shake and shimmy out your wiggles?

Numerous singers, entertainers, chefs and athletes will participated in this year’s event – the largest annual public event held at the White House. Over 50,000 people were in attendance! Other performers included: Sara Bareilles, Justin Bieber, the cast of Glee, Sesame Street, J.K. Rowling, Reese Witherspoon, Apolo Ohno and a whole lot more!

DJ Lance will also be reading a story at the Storytime stage at 5:00 PM EDT (which hasn't happened yet at the time of this posting.)

We'll make sure we post a video when it's available.

For more info on this awesome event, go here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/04/ready-roll