By Brian Mansfield, Steve Jones, Edna Gundersen, Elysa Gardner and Korina Lopez, USA TODAY
USA TODAY's music staff offers a weekend tip sheet of sound recommendations spanning the media landscape:
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Eddie Vedder performs at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
By Rick Diamond, Getty Images
Eddie Vedder performs at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
TICKETS
Passes for expanded Coachella up for grabs
For its 13th year, Coachella is calling a double play. Organizers for the California music and arts festival will attempt to replicate the 2012 festival ? same acts, same place, different audiences ? on consecutive weekends, April 13-15 and April 20-22. Passes will be on sale starting Friday (10 a.m. PT) until June 10. The sales window is the only opportunity to take advantage of the Coachella Payment Plan, which requires 10% down followed by eight monthly payments or payment in full. The price for three-day passes remains at $269. Next year's acts haven't been announced yet, but when a festival can split, amoeba-like, in order to accommodate its audience, it's not about the acts. ? Brian Mansfield
BOX SETS
A tribute to Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'
There's a whole lot going on with What's Going On. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's classic socio-political opus, Motown/Ume is issuing a new super-deluxe edition ($47.26) that includes two CDs and one vinyl LP, 14 unreleased tracks, rarities and an oversized booklet with two essays and rare photos from the original cover shoot. The album, which included the hit title track, Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) and Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), plugged into disillusioned soldiers returning home from the war in Vietnam. The extras feature Gaye's final recordings in Detroit, including several post-album songs he did with guitarists Ray Parker Jr., Wah Wah Watson and bassist Michael Henderson. The anniversary will also be marked this summer when Stevie Wonder, Tonight Show bandleader Rickey Minor and others perform a tribute concert July 24 at the Hollywood Bowl. Next May, the National Symphony Orchestra, John Legend and The Roots will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington in honor of the 40th anniversary of Gaye's legendary performance there. ? Steve Jones
TICKETS
Pearl Jam celebrates with a festival
Tickets go on sale Saturday morning (at livenation.com and ticketmaster.com) for Pearl Jam's 20th-anniversary blowout, a festival unfolding over Labor Day weekend Sept. 3-4 at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis. Joining the Seattle rock band on the bill are The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudhoney, John Doe, Joseph Arthur, Glen Hansard and Liam Finn. Also marking the quintet's 20th: Cameron Crowe's documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty, expected in September. ? Edna Gundersen
DVD/BLU-RAYS
A MusiCares Tribute to Neil Young
Chances are you weren't among the select few who saw Neil Young feted by admiring stars at MusiCares' 2010 Person of the Year ceremony. But now you can listen ? and watch ? as Elton John, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews, Lady Antebellum and others perform Young's songs at that annual recording-industry shindig, on DVD and Blu-ray ($17 and $22). Included are fan favorites such as Ohio (covered by Ben Harper), Don't Let It Bring You Down (Jackson Browne), Rockin' in the Free World (Keith Urban, John Fogerty and Booker T. Jones) and Helpless (John, Leon Russell, Sheryl Crow and Neko Case). ? Elysa Gardner
BOOKS
The world through Linda McCartney's lens
Before she married a Beatle, Linda Eastman was an artist in her own right, a rising rock 'n' roll photographer and the first female shooter to land the cover of Rolling Stone (with a 1968 portrait of Eric Clapton). Although she gave up her career to be a wife and mom in the '70s, her husband and children became her subjects. In the new Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs (Taschen, $69.99), Paul, her children and editor Alison Castle pulled 300 photos of her personal life from McCartney's 200,000-image archive. Intimate moments captured include Paul and son James taking a bubble bath and Paul walking around in his bathrobe on their farm in Scotland. The foreword is written by Paul; daughters Stella, a fashion designer, and Mary, a photographer, offer insights of their own. ? Korina Lopez
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