Coachella 2023

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/63bdc6b9a795af62e49c6011/master/w_1600,c_limit/Coachella-2023.jpg

That's actually a pretty solid one-two-three of headliners there.

first thought: “oh, they didn’t do the retro act thing”
galaxy brain: gorillaz and bjork are the retro acts

I was thinking that Blondie are the oldest band here?

oh, most likely. I was thinking of first-/second-string headliners

Funny to see Blondie sort of randomly billed btw Kaytranda and Becky G.

(I thought the Breeders were cool right now…? They’re billed so low on Saturday.)

i guess blackpink finally have enough music for a headline set lol

https://www.stereogum.com/2210062/21-thoughts-on-the-coachella-2023-poster/columns/sounding-board/

Much too long but found this part funny as some people were blown away at them making ILMs decade list from last summer.

18. Where’s Alvvays? The critic hive-mind ultimately isn’t that important to the whole festival circuit, and maybe nobody should be too mad that they won’t get to hear “Belinda Says” in a big tent in the middle of the afternoon. But this year’s lineup is actually pretty heavy on critical favorites, so it seems a little strange that the band who made one of last year’s most lauded records won’t be at Coachella

I'm super impressed how few of these acts I even recognize. #old

I was thinking the exact same thing *checks palm* time for the old carousel maybe :)

Jai Paul, wow.

That caught my eye as well

http://www.youtube.com/coachella

https://townsquare.media/site/838/files/2023/04/attachment-coachella2023-w1-friday.jpg

YouTube has six feeds this year, which theoretically should mean that if it’s on this list you should be able to watch. There does happen to be a seventh stage and do wonder if that will come into play somehow? Anyways, starting the written out list at 4 PM because that is whey they turn it on.

Friday, April 14, 2023

Dennis Cruz + Paw$a (4:15, Yuma)
Malaa (4:15, Sahara)
Overmono (4:25, Gobi)
Pusha T (4:30, Coachella)
Magdalena Bay (4:50, Sonora)
Muna (4:50, Mojave)
Yungblud (4:55, Outdoor)
Vintage Culture (5:20, Sahara)
Nora En Pure (5:30, Yuma)
Becky G (5:45, Coachella)
Tobe Nwigwe (5:45, Gobi)
TV Girl (5:55, Sonora)
Wet Leg (6:00, Mojave)
SG Lewis (6:10, Outdoor)
Idris Elba (6:45, Yuma)
Blink-182 (6:45, Sahara)
Yves Tumor (7:05, Gobi)
Burna Boy (7:05, Coachella)
Kaytranada (7:30, Outdoor)
Blondie (7:35, Mojave)
Sasha Alex Sloan (7:40, Sonora)
Jamie Jones (8:05, Sahara)
Mochakk (8:15, Yuma)
The Garden (8:15, Gobi)
Gorillaz (8:35, Coachella)
Angèle (9:10, Mojave)
Two Friends (9:20, Sahara)
Whyte Fang (9:25, Gobi)
Uncle Waffles (9:30, Sonora)
Testpilot (9:45, Yuma)
The Chemical Brothers (9:50, Outdoor)
Ashnikko (10:35, Gobi)
FKJ (10:35, Mojave)
Metro Boomin (10:35, Sahara)
Maceo Plex (11:15, Yuma)
Bad Bunny (11:25, Coachella)

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-announces-surprise-blink-182-set-17895740.php

Now we know why Coachella organizers waited so long to announce set times for the festival’s first weekend: They’d been hiding news that Blink-182 would make a surprise performance, the band’s first set since its famed lineup reunited last year.

When Blink-182 takes the stage at 6:45 p.m. Friday on the festival’s first night, it will mark the first time Travis Barker, Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus have played together publicly since 2014.

British singer James Blake was also announced as a last-minute addition, playing the Do Lab stage at 8:30 p.m.

Beam me up (beam me up)
Count me in (count me in)
Three, two, one (three, two, one)
Let's begin

Here we go (here we go)

Here we go (here we go)

Here we go, here we go, here we go

oh Becky G is a good primer

Hope others will join me as this is usually pretty fun

Looking forward to Wet Leg obviously and I would think they will bring it live

Loved the song with the other one is on lead vocals, forget how young they are

I assume it was “Convincing”? Yeah, that’s my favorite song of theirs

That was so much fun

Blink 182 time

Wet Leg had about 40 minutes of material and "Angelica" was the highlight with their signature song bringing down the house

Fuck yeah

Burna Boy is up too

blink opening their set with "family reunion" was perfect lmao. we are all way too old for these songs but shit still makes feel like i'm 15 again

as a blink fan, this setlist is a fucking dream

yeah it's such a great set so far!

Blink's drummer is so good, key to everything

WHERE ARE YOU

All the, small theengs ...

“dammit” <3

I was in the the kitchen, did they just do a No Scrubs interlude?

They did - I think mark used to do the same thing back in the day. And the actual song played as they went offstage

That was a good set. Except for “dumpweed”, that should’ve been left in 1999 where it belongs

Blondie came on

just switched over - Debbie Harry singing "The Tide is High" in a leather jacket and massive sunglasses <3

And bringing out Nile Rodgers

Queen

One way or another
Hanging on the telephone
Call me
Maria
The tide is high
Rapture with Nile Rodgers

Nile + Blondie ripped

Dreaming is Real

Glen fucking Matlock!

debbie harry is just the fucking coolest

Bad Bunny is happening tonight, trying to wrap my head around that

Gorillaz are going to be massive

I like that the music after her (and I've heard it once before tonight, same stage? different stage?) is a version of the Stranglers "Golden Brown."

first thought: “oh, they didn’t do the retro act thing”
galaxy brain: gorillaz and bjork are the retro acts

― mh, Wednesday, January 11, 2023 2:52 PM (three months ago)

Gorillaz opening with M1A1

That was amazing

Gorillaz is all about the guest artist, when it's only Damon Albarn (this isn't Blur), it isn't all that

so his doctor's advice is basically "you can't rap while sitting down" ?

Ok yeah loving money is more uncool. That said, there are fans of him who had probably wasted a shit ton of money to fly and see him on his live appearance #5 in 10 years only to be left hanging and that’s not cool.

I’m not a Frank Ocean fan but it all seems very unprofessional to me and ultimately Coachella is not affected, the fans are.

His career is probably dead after this. Not that he seems to care.

he has no social media presence and never has. he clearly just wants to make records and doesn't give any fucks whatsoever for anything else.

(but yes, very shitty for fans who traveled / went specifically to see him.)

he clearly just wants to make records

and not even that very often.

Lol yeah he just loves to make records once every decade.

and if you only like to make records once every decade then maybe don’t sign a contract to do fucking Coachella?

I’m sorry but I just don’t see how he’s in the right.

oh he's absolutely a supreme jerkass for this.

wonder what the next album will sound like tho.

cancelling a performance because of suffering two leg fractures and a sprain shortly before the first performance which caused an entire reworking of the show hours before showtime that didn't go well, isn't entirely the same thing as just saying "lol I don't wanna perform".

granted idk that he needed to fire all the skaters before the first show but if he kept his slot for the second show and performed sitting down per doctor's orders then he'd just get lit up for being boring and sitting down for the whole show

thank you for bringing it back, neanderthal. officially he has a medical condition that prevents him from performing. we can speculate on subtext, but that's what has happened.

has there been any word yet on a replacement?

be cool to see someone random like pharrell call in a bunch of favors and just have a jam session.

OR NO WAIT WHAT IF THIS ALL A PR STUNT AND FRANK SHOWS UP TO PLAY HIS BRAND NEW ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY?

(that would rule!)

The replacement will be Blink 182.

Which oddly enough cancelled several dates earlier this year because Travis had an injury on his foot. He’s a drummer though so it makes more sense.

Kevin Parker (tame impala) had a fractured hip and didn’t cancel this year.

I guess an ankle injury doesn’t make you pay fines.

Cancelled headlining at sasquatch and hangout and primaverasound and a bunch more in 2017…

The replacement will be Blink 182.

thought this was a joke at first.

re: frank
i mean yeah, he has set the precedent of being very flaky. but at least he's making an effort with the ankle thing lol. what was the purpose of him appearing? my q about new material was genuine btw. does he even have anything to promote? or was it him being just a prestige thing?

*was it him being there as just a prestige thing

BEDTIME!

instant fame, thanks to Frank!

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/an-interview-with-the-teenager-who-livestreamed-frank-oceans-coachella-set/

shitty for his fans. and ankle or no, this is very much in line with his approach to basically everything over the past decade. *i'd* be fed up if i cared enough!

but

His career is probably dead after this.

oh, definitely not.

couldn't he get his father, Billy, to perform?

he released a pair of singles back in 2020 before he was originally supposed to play coachella, and had at least put out an extensive run of non-album singles post-blonde in the years prior

he said at this year's show that he didn't have any new material to perform (but is working on new material). really it's probably just because they threw too much money at him to turn down

i'm glad i wasn't really into blonde much because being an obsessive fan of his seems frustrating

i think frank is (was) fulfilling the contractual obligation from his canceled 2020 booking and if there was no obligation, he would never have agreed to headline.

frank's younger brother passed away in august 2020 at the age of 18, and if the speech he gave during his performance is any indication, he is very much still grieving and that grief is affecting his ability to create his art. some artists are able to channel their pain into their music, but some people can't.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-2023-fined-for-curfew-17906780.php

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Bad Bunny performs at the Coachella Stage during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14, 2023 in Indio, California. His set broke curfew, triggering a hefty fine for the concert promoters.
Bad Bunny performs at the Coachella Stage during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14, 2023 in Indio, California. His set broke curfew, triggering a hefty fine for the concert promoters.

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Jim Curtis could write a book about the surreal phone calls he’s fielded during major music festivals in his California desert town. Some callers ask to turn the music down, and others complain the music is not loud enough.

After 18 years as the liaison between the city of Indio and Goldenvoice — the promoters for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — Curtis thought he has heard it all, but this past weekend’s 2023 Coachella set a new precedent. Due to headlining artists breaking curfew over all three nights, Goldenvoice is on the hook for $117,000 in fines. The money goes into the city’s general fund which supports police, fire and public works.

I didn't mean to copy all that.

Only the last paragraph should have posted.

why would Frank be obligated to fulfil a booking cancelled for the pandemic?

Maybe Goldenvoice paid him anyway, with the stipulation he'd perform when it started back up.

i assume he wouldn't get paid unless he actually performed

Did Oprah build a giant boulder wall in Montecito?

clips circulating of frank walking out of the venue just fine last weekend. dang man. like i know i'm flippant and lol`ing away here, but vc said it: he's most likely working through some pretty significant issues. i do like his records, so it's just kind of. . . big sigh i really want him to persevere, but not like this.

The ankle injury sounded like bullshit from the start. Saying he has stage anxiety or something like that would have been better received because even if the ankle injury was real, he spent pretty much all the concert sitting so I don’t see why he couldn’t just do the same on the second weekend.

I think he just bailed after reading comments on the concert being a dissapointment and underwhelming.

He might have personally thought it was a disappointment and underwhelming, and spent no time reading online comments.

he might have a grudge against hockey players

He might not have a cellphone.

https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-2023-weekend-2-lineup-and-schedule-all-the-set-times-you-need-to-know/

Bad Bunny, Blackpink, Blink-182, and more return for another weekend in Indio. There’s also a mysterious act set to close the festival on Sunday night following Frank Ocean’s departure.

The mystery deepens.

https://pitchfork.com/news/four-tet-skrillex-and-fred-again-replacing-frank-ocean-as-coachella-2023-headliner-report/

pitchfork is already reporting that it's four tet/skrillex/fred again

Surprise act: the Indino Community Choir sings a quiet lullaby.

I'm not going to be tuning in like last weekend as I almost drank myself to death. I might, for instance, check out Underworld instead of Blackpink. I also want to catch Jai Paul if they played it live this time around instead of typed version.

* taped

Looks like the Yuma stage is being streamed and the Sonora stage isn't, this weekend. WhoMadeWho at 8pm tonight, if so.

Jai Paul is live

WMW are playing completely from the booth, basically as a trance act, and it's fucking great

(no bass / no drums / a little gtr)

Tuning in for Underworld

Who is that dancing, Bez?

Underworld were really good.

Björk is the last question that I need an answer for from Coachella 2023

Tuning in for Eric Prydz spectacle

Bee OK, according to setlist.fm it was Yung Lean

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/underworld/2023/empire-polo-club-indio-ca-4bb8cf56.html