Coachella 2010

Whee.

I like how John Waters is just tucked in there.

Awesome headliners and just the total dregs of indie rock

Thom Yorke????

In a week that'll change to:

Nah! Jack Johnson. LOL.

Sly and the Family Stone

is the poster Coachella's way of asking Thom Yorke if he'd like to play? ???

Forget the "????" They're missing the exclamation marks on Gil! Scott! Heron!

i think it's been mentioned somewhere else on this board ... but Muse? Are they really that popular?

welcome to englande

Coachella, Lancashire

i remember muse being hella popular in LA

The misty moors of palm springs ...
just saw that grace jones is playing. that's interesting.

i didn't get into the other thread, but Muse is incredibly popular with the type of ppl that don't post on ILX

they're kind of an enormous cult band in that huge, huge, huge arena where Tool fans and Radiohead fans collide

every single british female between the ages of 14 and 28 is by law a muse fan

xpost -- And yet, despite being a fan of both those bands you invoke, I find Muse utterly useless.

yeah, ned, i don't know if you've been to a Radiohead or Tool show, but not every single person in ENORMOUS STADIUMS that they play are cool indie types that read Hipster Runoff

and they're pretty popular with the over-30s, especially for a 'new' band (i.e. formed after 1995)

I'd say there are PLENTY of Muse fans who aren't Tool fans. There's a sort of pop-metal demographic (which also includes the surprisingly-huge Biffy Clyro) that swallows people up like grains of salt. Radiohead's probably the biggest overlap, but I genuinely think Muse has more fans these days.

Muse is incredibly popular with the type of ppl that don't post on ILX

And me. Didn't love the new one, but the last two (and the live album) were fucking great.

But as I posted on Twitter, I might consider going to Coachella if it was a five block walk from my apartment, but across the country? In the desert? With thousands of the kind of people who willingly spend three days in the desert just to hear bands play? Fuck no.

they're kind of an enormous cult band in that huge, huge, huge arena where Tool fans and Radiohead fans collide

― miley stylus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:51 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah aka kroq listeners in LA, at least circa 2-3 years ago

yeah, LJ yr talkin about UK Muse fans, I'm talking about US Muse fans who have no idea what a Biffo Cleary is

I've pretty much seen all the bands on that list that I wanted to see this year, but I'll still probably check out the pre-coachella shows that ppl do. Maybe Yorke'll play the echoplex again.

I mentioned this on another thread where we talked about the baffling U.S. popularity of Muse, but they headlined one night of Lollapalooza several years ago against Interpol and drew a tremendously large crowd. I was very, very surprised.

Maybe Yorke?????'ll play the echoplex again.

it took me about 5 years to realise Biffy Clyro weren't American

hate that Flea has started calling himself "?????" -- so pretentious!

what is them crooked vultures? screamo?

it's josh homme

come on now kevin get with the program man

It's John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme being loud.

not every single person in ENORMOUS STADIUMS that they play are cool indie types that read Hipster Runoff

You don't say.

But as I posted on Twitter, I might consider going to Coachella if it was a five block walk from my apartment, but across the country? In the desert? With thousands of the kind of people who willingly spend three days in the desert just to hear bands play? Fuck no.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:59 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is sort of a tautology

oh ok, based on someone i know who owns that CD & their placement in the ilx metal poll i figured they were metalcore or something

them crooked vultures album really isn't bad at all

them crooked vultures album really isn't bad at all

It isn't really all that good, either.

it sure beats the living crap outta that latest muse album!! holy god, worst album ever, for real, and I LIKE early-00's Muse

bad, good, dunno but it's kick-ass for blasting up and down California 5 at the kind of speed you do because who the fuck wants to be anywhere on California 5

also live they rock balls

they're kind of an enormous cult band in that huge, huge, huge arena where Tool fans and Radiohead fans collide

― miley stylus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:51 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kinda like the deftones

but they don't sound like the deftones, though, right? I think of them as being watered down Coldplay. Or maybe watered up i don't know.

lots of re-purposed burning man art

pavement are touring??!??!? so weird having them away for the last 10 years as so much of the indie world turned into them.

I'd say that the Muse fanbase overlaps with a good portion of the Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon ones.

also it is criminal that Sly and the Family Stone are billed so far down.

also it is criminal that Sly and the Family Stone are billed so far down

If the odds of them showing up get better than 20 to 1, they'll move up the bill.

What the...

Oh, and what about those question marks on Sunday's text in the concert poster below? No, that isn't saving a spot for a Smiths reunion or U2 debut on the Coachella stage, it's the way that Yorke presents himself as a solo star, the marquee at his Orpheum concert had the same punctuational flourish.

Thom Yorke and the Mysterians

what a fucking dickhead????

please have midlife sexuality/identity crisis, thom yorke, all along all you wanted was dance music sex and romance

maybe Thom is lobbying for a part in the next Batman movie
http://gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/puzzles/language/riddler.jpg

Are Devo still amazing live?

Assuming they are, and assuming Sly shows up and maintains coherency, I would go for them and to see Dave Grohl play drums.. and that's pretty much it. (I'm already seeing Pavement in September.)

"Shitty" version wins.

Devo still rule live. A huge amount.

No interest in the headliners, but lots of great acts. I imagine there will be some good dj sets at the parties. I'm not even sure I'll go to the show!

And wondering about ????. Best case 'Tron' soundtrack premiere?

Devo still rule live. A huge amount.

Enthusiastically seconding this.

yeah at one point mothersbaugh jumped into the crowd and started throwing people around at a recent show, and this is aside from all the awesome formations they dance in and the general tightness of the band

I remember on the drive to coachella (in '04) somewhere around Cabazon, there was a car full of girls with "MUSE OR BUST" painted in big white letters on the back window of their sedan. I was baffled. Somehow that still stuck with me.

Now i've never been, but i just cannot imagine being at a festival where you couldn't drink whilst watching the bands. Yes it makes me sound like a stereotypical drunken britisher, but i just can't imagine it. plus the intense heat + huge crowds + slightly shitty parts of the line-up etc makes it sound like a hellhole. but i'm probably wrong?

Oh http://www.urb.com/2010/01/19/thom-yorkes-explained

joey waronker will always be the dude from walt mink to me

That band consisted of Flea, Nigel Godrich, Beck drummer Joey Waronker and David Byrne collaborator Joey Waronker.

I like the thought of two Joey Waronkers in the band. I'm guessing the second reference is supposed to mean Mauro Refosco.

I remember on the drive to coachella (in '04) somewhere around Cabazon, there was a car full of girls with "MUSE OR BUST" painted in big white letters on the back window of their sedan.

pretending you 're a Muse fan when you talk to the girls is the "ah I love Jeff Buckley" imo.

*new version of that

Too bad !!! isn't playing Sunday before Thom Yorke????

Whoa, didn't notice Aeroplane before. Still not going, but still.

Every time I look at the poster I see some other interesting act that I didn't notice before.

Can't think anything cynical about Coachella. Sad this year I am not going. I gotta spend my money on my wedding. *Sigh*

Every time I look at the poster I see some other interesting worthless act that I didn't notice before.

Fixed.

xpost, i'm sure after a year or two of marriage you'll be able to be cynical again

seriously thinkin about going to Coachella this year. What's the best way to get onto the grounds. If you drive will you have to wait in 14 hours worth of traffic?

also, this is fuckin amazing

http://coachella.com/camping/safari

If they're running the special train out from Union Station and back again I'd go that route.

i almost want to shell out five grand just to sleep in that thing

holy shit

i'm trying to think of ways to convince myself that it's worth the money

i mean, it's really not -- it would be more worth it at like bonnaroo so you don't have to sleep in literal shit, but you can commute to coachella fairly easy from a hotel from what i've been told

it reminds me of like a tent in an Aladdin-themed porno

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/pavement-adds-precoachella-gig.html

Pavement will play the Fox Theatre in Pomona on April 15, on the eve of Coachella. Tickets go on sale March 27 at 10 a.m., and will run $41, not including various Ticketmaster surcharges.

SOLD OUT!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/04/coachella-threeday-passes-officially-sold-out.html

April 12, 2010 | 5:39 pm

What recession? What industry slump? Festival fatigue? Pshaw. Word on the Ticketmaster site is that the Coachella three-day passes -- the only option for attending this year, because Goldenvoice opted against selling single-day passes -- are gone. The evidence is the big banner atop the Ticktetmaster sales page: Coachella Festival: 3 Day Pass - *Sold Out.* We just spoke to our Coachella people, and they're making calls to get official confirmation. We'll update when we get word.

-- Randall Roberts

Pshaw.

Die Antwoord was added to the Friday lineup.

http://coachella.com/event/set-times

man it's pretty fucking hard to beat lcd -> jay-z

like, i would conceivably pay coachella price if those two were playing a show by themselves

tiesto is such a dickhead

how are dead weather headlining a stage? do they even have 1 hour worth of material to play?

Die Antwoord was added to the Friday lineup.

Whoops, I meant Saturday.

Two years ago, the main stage on Sat. went Kraftwerk->Portishead->Prince, that was a pretty amazing sequence.

man it's pretty fucking hard to beat lcd -> jay-z

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:36 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how about PiL u fuckin new jack

suckas

why the hell is Dead Weather putting out a second record? i say this as a Stripes fan: who listens to that shit?

yeah my stripes loving bro is always saying the same thing

agree, Jack give me a new White Stripes please!

xpost

insert <record>

Jay-Z vs. PIL vs. Fever Ray... that's some shitty schedule overlap IMO.

I kinda like it when festivals have "tough decision hour" it means all the shows will be a little less crowded!

At bonnaroo they had Grizzly Bear vs Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs Santogold. I ended up watching King Sunny Ade with like 300-400 ppl and it was awesome.

haha no joking i own albums by more acts on that fake poster than on the real one

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/04/coachella-impacted-by-volcanic-ash-closing-european-airports-frightened-rabbit-grounded-in-london.html

Coachella affected by volcanic ash closing European airports; Frightened Rabbit, Cribs, Los Campesinos! grounded..But don't worry, Gorillaz, PiL, Muse and the Specials are already here. "All the headliners are in the country," Goldenvoice's Paul Tollett said in a brief statement, "and we're in contact with the acts that are having travel issues based on the ash."

Skipping.

One more $5000 tent for me then..

can't wait for the pictures! those Daft Punk pictures from a few years back were amazing.