Guns N’ Roses to reunite at Coachella music festival

Guns N' Roses celebrate their Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for "November Rain" at the MTV Video Music ceremony Sept. 10, 1992 in Los Angeles.  At the podium are Axl Rose, left, Slash.  With them are Duff McKagan, at left with blond hair, and Gilby Clarke, Dizzy Reed, and Matt Sorum.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
It’s official. Guns N’ Roses will reunite at the Coachella music festival in California. Read the details below, then click through the gallery to watch videos of the various acts. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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Guns N' Roses celebrate their Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for "November Rain" at the MTV Video Music ceremony Sept. 10, 1992 in Los Angeles.  At the podium are Axl Rose, left, Slash.  With them are Duff McKagan, at left with blond hair, and Gilby Clarke, Dizzy Reed, and Matt Sorum.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

WASHINGTON — Our “appetite for destruction” just got renewed.

Guns N’ Roses — one of the most famous rock bands of the past 30 years — announced that it’s finally reuniting at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California in April.

The GNR reunion marks the first concert that frontman Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and the rest of the band have played together in two decades after rattling off a string of hits including “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Paradise City,” “Sweet Child O Mine,” “Patience,” “Civil War” and “November Rain.”

The band was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, but Rose skipped the ceremony.

Now, Rose has confirmed the reunion news on Twitter:

The music festival spans two weekends: April 15-17 and April 22-24.

Guns N’ Roses will headline both Saturdays of the festival.

Other acts include Ice Cube, Sia, Ellie Goulding, A$AP Rocky, Calvin Harris, Disclosure, Run the Jewels, Rancid and LCD Soundsystem, which also reunites after disbanding back in 2011.

Passes go on sale Jan. 6 at 11 a.m.

The official Guns N’ Roses Twitter account tweeted the full concert lineup:

Festival organizers expect more than 90,000 people to attend this year.

Attendance has steadily grown since the festival began in 1999.

Data curated by WanderBat

 

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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