Coachella 2015

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Friday, April 10 and 17:

AC/DC

Tame Impala

Interpol

Steely Dan

Alesso

Alabama Shakes

Ride

Nero

Azealia Banks

Flying Lotus

Raekwon and Ghostface Killah

Lykke Li

DJ Snake

Porter Robinson

Caribou

Todd Terje and the Olsens

Angus and Julia Stone

Hot Natured

George Ezra

Squarepusher

Kiesza

Action Bronson

Gorgon City

Reverend Horton Heat

Sylvan Esso

Kimbra

Vic Mensa

Erol Aikan

Kele

Cloud Nothings

Keys N Krates

MK

Pete Tong

Ab-Soul

Haerts

Eagulls

Allah-Las

Alvin Risk

Crhis Malinchak

Jon Hopkins

Oliver Heldens

Ryan Hemsworth

Jason Bentley

Brant Bjor and the Low Desert Punk Band

Marques Wyatt

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

Los Rakas

***

April 11 and 18:

Jack White

The Weeknd

Axwell Ingrosso

alt-J

Belle and Sebastian

Ratatat

Hozier

Flosstradamus

Bad Religion

SBTRKT

FKA Twigs

Tyler the Creator

Father John Misty

The War on Drugs

Deorro

Run the Jewels

Tycho

Chet Faker

Kasabian

Drive Like Jehu

Swans

Milky Chance

Toro y Moi

Jungle

New World Punx

Clean Bandit

Glass Animals

Royal Blood

Alison Wonderland

The Gaslamp Killer Experience

Loco Dice

Danny Tenaglia

Antemasque

Parquet Courts

Gramatik

Lights

What So Not

Yellow Claw

DJ Harvey

Tale of Us

Yelle

Andrew McMahon

Carl Craig

Phox

St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Cashmere Cat

Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich Fussible

Tourist

Benjamin Booker

Matthew Koma

Perfume Genius

Jamestown Revival

Bad Suns

Ruen Brothers

Bixel Boys

Andrea Olivia

Ryn Weaver

Radkey

Coasts

Until the Ribbon Breaks

***

April 12 and 19:

Drake

Florence and the Machine

Kaskade

Ryan Adams

David Guetta

St. Vincent

Marina and the Diamonds

Fitz and the Tantrums

Brand New

Madeon

Stromae

Kygo

Odeza

Gesaffelstein

RAC

Circa Survive

Jenny Lewis

Desaparecidos

Jamie xx

Martin Solveig

Duke Dumont

Lil B

Mac DeMarco

Vance Joy

Built to Spill

J.E.S.+S.

Panda Bear

Kaytranada

R3hab

St. Lucia

Dirty South

OFF!

Charles Bradley

Philip Selway

Cedric Gervais

Claude Von Stroke

Touche Amore

Joyce Manor

Angel Olsen

John Talabot

Tiger and Woods

Dubfire

Sturgill Simpson

Annie Mac

Chicano Batman

Sloan

Doc Martin

MO

Saint Motel

The Orwells

The Cribs

tINI

Ben Klock

Night Terrors of 1927

highlights for me are Steely Dan and Ride with Doc Martin and Marques Wyatt DJing.

How very underwhelming.

Bee I imagine you saying that like they're all performing together.

continue to not get the steely dan meme

at least they got the built to spill billing right

what meme

still think the presence of the Reverend Horton Heat is the weirdest thing about this lineup

am I out of touch or is it completely absurd how prominent Ride are on that poster

didn't the Pavement reunion draw a small crowd? would think Ride would be ... smaller than that.

Ha, I was looking for the token big reunion, but somehow missed Ride.

http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2015/01/06/why-steely-dan-belongs-at-coachella
http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/01/20/steely-dan-fans-are-assholes

ha ha, love this...they should get the touring band from the first two records back together--Michael McDonald, Skunk Baxter, Denny Dias, and Royce Jones--and just play from the first four records. That band was unbelievably sick from the few bootlegs out there

that is great

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-first-impressions-of-coachella-2015-surprises-reunions-predictions-20150106-column.html

How in the world did Swans become a festival staple?

Panda Bear is in the small font. I thought the kids liked him, at least more than Desaparecidos.

Maybe he should break up and then reunite.

if i could somehow just go to Friday's show i so would but you have to buy full weekends and i'm not doing that. plus i feel too old for these type of things anymore.

Yeah, I liked it when you could buy a one day pass, but fuck a $400 three day ticket.

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http://www.pe.com/articles/channel-764331-youtube-coachella.html

Youtube:

Friday, April 10

Channel 1: Haerts, Reverend Horton Heat, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, The War on Drugs, Alabama Shakes, Jason's World, Tame Impala and Interpol

Channel 2: Eagulls, Kimbra, Gorgon City, Azealia Banks, Lykke Li, Ride and Todd Terje and the Olsens
*A release from YouTube included Kele, but he posted on his Facebook page that due to circumstances beyond his control he won’t be at the festival.

Channel 3: Kiesza, Hot Natured, Keys N Krates, DJ Snake, R3hab (part 1), Porter Robinson, R3hab (part 2) and Alesso
Saturday, April 11

Channel 1: Clean Bandit, Milky Chance, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Hozier, Run the Jewels, Jason's World, alt-J, Jack White, Flosstradamus and Axwell Λ Ingrosso

Channel 2: Royal Blood, Benjamin Booker, Toro y Moi, Yelle, Bad Religion, Glass Animals, Father John Misty, Jungle, Tyler, the Creator, FKA Twigs, The Weeknd and Antemasque

Channel 3: Parquet Courts, Lights, Perfume Genius, Chet Faker, Belle & Sebastian, Duke Dumont, Gramatik, Dirty South, Deorro and Ratatat

Sunday, April 12
Channel 1: Circa Survive, Mac DeMarco, Marina & the Diamonds, Jason's World and Kaskade

Channel 2: MØ, Sturgill Simpson, St. Lucia, Tycho, Vance Joy, The Cribs, Stromae, St. Vincent, Fitz & the Tantrums and Panda Bear

Channel 3: The Orwells, RAC, What So Not, Martin Solevig, Madeon, New World Punx, David Guetta, Kygo and Jamie xx

the malls of los angeles are empty this weekend as all the teenage girls have begun their pilgrimage to indio

so yeah for Ride, boo that they are not going to play the Steely Dan show.

http://www.youtube.com/user/coachella

now watching: War on Drugs

i don't get the attraction of Alabama Shakes.

is anyone going to watch Interpol with me?

still hoping they add Steely Dan like they have added other big band at the last moment in years past.

How did Steely Dan not get a headlining spot?

Interpol looks as stylish as ever.

opening with "Say Hello To The Angels"

AC/DC

xxxpost

but yeah i agree they are the best band of the weekend but do kids get that?

"Narc"

now we are talking

Do "the kids" like AC/DC either though?

That's a genuine question. I really have no idea about what's hip anymore.

"Evil"

well at least Interpol knows there old stuff is best.

i think they know if only a few songs. Steely Dan you have to be a geek to really know.

xpost

"Leif Erikson"

they get it.

must admit i'm getting super excited about Tame Impala, who are next.

"PDA"

is anyone else up, i know i'm having some fun tonight.

"The New"

"Not Even Jail"

what a fucking set list tonight, only two songs off the new album. they know which songs to pick.

spoke too soon, will shut up for now. wonder what else they play tonight.

Tame Impala

WoW

was wondering how they would fill up the space.

they played "Let it Happen" nice.

this band IS great live.

so anyways i had a very tough week at work, i'm running a project and it was the first week. so tonight i had a mix with Jameson tonight. so i have felt good. sort of let my hair down...

probably my favorite Tame Impale song.

so they are going to play Ride in an hour, and i'm a HUGE fan. but i'm seeing them on Tuesday night and feel i shouldn't watch tonight.

Lykke LI is going to play next, should be fun.

just entertaining myself at this point.

you still here, Bee OK?

yeah, watching Lykke Li, she pretty awesome.

OK, well, I am here with you now. I am always impressed at your dedication to these fest live streams.

Except I don't really have anything to say. "Oh Lykke Li is covering Drake and it's decidedly whatever."

the funny thing is i have been dealing with all sorts of stuff and was able to catch Interpol and Tame Impale, also posted a lot about that here. in addition, it has actually been a crazy night. with the addition of Tim Lincecum gave up no runs, in his 2015 debut but a lose.

yeah, agree.

I am always impressed at your dedication to these fest live streams.

it has to do with keeping ILM going and happened to be in the same time zone.

this song is very enjoyable. hoping to hang in for Ride and Terje

Lykke Li is like the Demi Lovato of another, way cooler world. (And I like Demi.)

i know like one or two songs but have been loving this tonight.

that was great, i have been missing out.

haha, sorry if i have been repeating myself.

so much fun.

still don't understand how they didn't play Steely Dan. by far their most important band of this weekend.

the bands have to agree to let them broadcast. it's entirely possible they asked and the Dan said no.

i use to really, really love Ride.

i remember this "Dreams Burn Down."

i want to stay for Todd Terje but think i have to call it a night, goodnite me. and anyone else who is up.

It's Album Time

this is amazing.

It was a set that featured explosions, duck-walked guitar antics, much vocal yowling and a tract-home sized inflatable woman, buxom and bikinied, that popped into shape during "Whole Lotta Rosie."

Loud, dumb and occasionally effective, AC/DC closed the first night of Coachella 2015 with gnarly riffs, a rumbling bottom end and Angus Young solos galore. Within songs about rocking hard, going to hell, killing for hire and riding a train while "living on ecstasy," five men roared their way through songs that listeners of all ages have internalized -- whether they wanted to or not.

They powered through "Back in Black," "Hell's Bells," "You Shook Me All Night Long," "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)," and peppered their set with work from their typically reductive new album, "Rock or Bust." By the end, hell's bells rang, and the reaper didn't seem too far behind.

But from the opening riffs of "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," there was a disconnect. In gigging alongside some of the most innovative young artists making music today, the band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, confirmed an irrelevance among a generation for whom their particularly masculine displays of prowess seem as much an anachronism in 2015 as the Marlboro Man. An inflatable woman? In an age of high-tech concert wonder, who does that? AC/DC does, and they've done it for years at exactly the same moment.

"I hope you guys like rock 'n' roll because that's all we do," said singer Brian Johnson, donning a nearly identical hat to the one he's worn for decades. Behind him lead guitarist Angus Young, 60, wore a plush red schoolboy's outfit. Over the course of the set as he became further unhinged while soloing, he gradually stripped down to his shorts -- grandpa-style with black shoes.

To its credit, AC/DC's booking was a gutsy move on Coachella's part. Connecting historical dots, building musical bridges across decades -- that's what the festival does best. Steely Dan's smooth, assured presence earlier in the night was equally laudable. (Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, acknowledging the generation gap, introduced himself and his partner Walter Becker as "Uncle Don and Uncle Wally.)

But with AC/DC, the play for unity ended up being anything but. Lyrical lunkheadedness rolled across the field, the kind that's as passe as calling women "chicks" in 2015. At times AC/DC's set was so thick that it seemed one knowing wink away from Spinal Tap. Except this wasn't a joke.

"There's a story going around that AC/DC never played a ballad," Johnson said. "We'd argue with that." Then the band dived into its crawling blues song about a woman with a venereal disease, "The Jack." How romantic.

When Johnson, to open "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," described a lover who "Pours my beer / Licks my ear / Brings out the devil in me," the danger bordered on cartoonish, if it didn't also hint at drunken lechery to come. Hell ain't a bad place to be? Some of us beg to differ.

Still, when done right, cartoons can be entertaining, and at its best AC/DC delivered honestly rendered takes on male drive and power while keeping away from casual misogyny. With that classic guitar riff and scream-along chorus, "You Shook Me All Night Long" was an undeniably powerful celebration of a memorable escapade.

Out in the crowd, bikini-clad young women twirled and screamed, dancing like they were still moving to DJ Snake a few hundred yards away. They kept dancing for "Highway to Hell," as well, a song so engrained into the American psyche through classic rock radio spins that it may as well be our national anthem.

Still, the band couldn't hold them. Fans and passers-by crowded the area to start, but by the time AC/DC moved into mid-set, many had moved on. How many redundant guitar solos is your average 20-something willing endure? Not many, especially when DJ Alesso was offering a more contemporary brand of musical bombast than the one happening on the main stage -- and without the inflatable Rosie.

Follow Randall Roberts on Twitter: @liledit

Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times

my nuanced view is that ac/dc is one of those bands i'd be glad never to hear again, along with sublime and RHCP

watching coachella's live-stream on youtube >>>>>>>>>> being there irl

BONUS: you save $400

LOL that LA Times article, that AC/DC's objectification of women is some sort of archaic relic that today's kids have evolved past

You hear that kind of shit in rap music all the time. I guess it's not misogynistic and archaic when Lil Wayne does it.

this is ON again but i won't be around until later tonight.

why are Royal Blood? never heard of them.

How was Steely Dan last night? Anyone have a recap?

lol, it should have said who the fuck are...

just peaking in and see that Toro y Moi is on.

also Perfume Genius

fishnet stockings so hot.

with Robert Smith lipstick.

Just now found this. Missed Perfume Genius, damn. Soul rockers St. Paul and the Broken Bones finishing strong, Yelle's next (on Channel 1).

No, Yelle's on Channel 2; switching over there cause don't need Hozier (having heard early Elton John)

She's on it!

Belle & Sebastian

Run the Jewels time! Like these dudes and their album (though not as much as the rest of the planet) but they do a pretty great job live. Much more fun than the average rap show.

fun in the sun.

Alt-J with Jack White next.

Belle and Sebastian were fun!

Stuart's a smarmy fucker, though, isn't he?

Jack White vs. Tyler, the Creator

Belle & Sebastian played the only Coachella I attended, in 2004. Fun fact.

One of the only ways to get me watch a Tyler live show is to put him up against Jack White.

Brendan Benson >>>> Jack White

i don't know, BB never had a De Stijl.

FKA Twigs and then The Weeknd.

Lapalco's better than anything Jack's ever done, imo

guess I'm gonna do FKA Twigs and The Weeknd

Why are Royal Blood? (Good q imo!)

the Weeknd is killing it.

so if i'm the only one up tonight, then i was stay silent.

*will

still make too many mistakes when i post live.

what's the Weeknd like live, at this point? i saw him open for Florence + the Machine, of all acts, two or three years ago, and even in an arena setting like that, i felt like his music and vibe got lost in all the space.

A number of the sets have appeared on Dime over the last few days which had me wondering what type of festival it was. I was thinking it was an Indie thing, not that that still has the same meaning as it did 30 odd years ago. but it looks a lot like it could just be a US equivalent to Glastonbury or something.

It is the u.s. equivalent of glastonbury

Tonight I'm planning to watch (times converted to Central):
Channel 2
7:15 St. Vincent
Channel 3
9:30 Jamie xx (partial set)
Might add some more.

PANDA BEAR

also Mac DeMarco into Jenny Lewis.

PB has been great.

it seems like today might be the weakest of the three days. still looking forward to some things that are left for the weekend.

is anyone excited for Drake tonight?

Jenny Lewis and Haim.

From what I understand, Drake's set will not be shown.

it will be on at 10:15 PM according to Youtube.

Mmm, the plot thickens!

MaDeon, Marina & the Diamonds & The Cribs.

well maybe not that strong but there are some great things coming.

This Cribs song is very Pavementy.

Also:
Belle & Sebastian played the only Coachella I attended, in 2004. Fun fact.

― alpine static, Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:16 PM

Likewise for me, in 2002.

who is stromae and why is he doing "let's hear the boys now let's hear the girls"

Are they repeating shows? wtf!

i'm St. Vincent.

Zzzt. Vincent

Yes, false alarm. They started Stromae again, and F & t M on the other channel. But I'm watching St Vincent now.

Gaslamp Killer looks (kinda) and sounds like Roky Erickson.

not sure if i'm going to watch all of Drake but here we go.

Drake has been pretty good but he doesn't need to say Coachella every 30 seconds.

brings out Madonna.

good god, what is she doing

YOU ARE MADONNA, YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THIS

did the Drake webcast just cut off or is it my shitty internet?

Youtube seems to be down, i switched on over to Jamie XX and it only went 30 seconds before also going down.

now she is on.

haha, or him.

one more song.

or not, what a tease.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/arts/music/talent-vs-buzz-the-push-pull-of-coachella.html?hpw&rref=arts&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

This was the 16th Coachella, a full-service fantasy resting on sacred resources: the Empire Polo Club, a huge plot of green amid the sand and dust and ocotillo plants. It’s green because it’s watered, and the state’s water-reduction policy will probably affect the way it looks, very soon. In its bookings, the festival has become a bit predictable: it’s not looking to the future or challenging the researched tastes of its established demographic. That’s a concern to anyone who’s there for the music. But its future may hinge just as much on whether Kendall Jenner wants to hang out on brown grass.

Correction: April 14, 2015

An earlier version of this article misidentified the person Tyler the Creator insulted. She is Kendall Jenner, not her sister Kylie.