I'm here to proselytize. The Coachella festival happens on May 1 and May 2 in the lovely desert city of Indio, CA. Every inch of your body, every fiber of experience tells you that 50,000 kids in a desert just 2 1/2 hours away from the whitewash of orange county (The OC, bitch!) is not the kind of setting you'd voluntarily put yourself in, unless there was some detonation device connected to the other end (i mean a make-believe detonation device, mr. ashcroft).
This is not that gathering.
Believe in simple truths: open fields, warm weather, friends and good and loud music while you sit on the grass. It's all crunktacular (except, one drawback is that there isn't actually any crunk, per se, to speak of here. Slug does NOT count, ok? But the math was if-no-crunk-then-no-emo and i think we can all get by with that). There's enough space, enough going on at the far-side of the field, like the kids who WANT to see paul van dyke, that no one's up in your grill unless you've sent them the waxed-letter invite. Afterwards, there's plenty of drugs and sex.
Added bonuses: indio has an In 'N Out Burger and Joshua Tree's on the way home (so if you're like me, and have a midnight flight out of Ontario, you can make a full day of it at Joshua Tree before heading back to NYC).
The lineup:
Saturday, May 1st
Radiohead
The Pixies
Kraftwerk
Wilco
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
The Rapture
Desert Sessions
Hieroglyphics
Kinky
Stereolab
Future Sound of London
And you will know us by The Trail of Dead
Peretz
Death Cab for Cutie
Laurent Garnier
LCD Soundsystem
Living Legends
Sander Kleinenberg
Black Keys
The Sounds
Howie Day
Junior Senior
Mark Farina
Moving Units
Sahara Hotnights
Electric Six
The Stills
Seb Fontaine
22-20's
Juana Molina
Phantom Planet
Dios
Jem
Q and not U
Erase Errata
The Section Quartet
DJ Icon
Sunday May 2nd
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
Air
Belle & Sebastian
Basement Jaxx
Paul Van Dyk
Bright Eyes
Atmosphere
Thursday
BRMC
Cursive
Le Tigre
The Crystal Method
Dizzee Rascal
Adam Freeland
Mogwai
Ash
2many Dj's
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Muse
Sidestepper
The Thrills
Broken Social Scene
The Sleepy Jackson
Ferry Corsten
Prefuse 73
!!!
The Cooper Temple Clause
Sage Francis
T. Raumschmiere
Stellastarr*
The Killers
Home Town Hero
The Section Quartet
Everytime I saw the Pixies in high school I was bummed that Kim deal did not see all the songs. Why is lauren garnier above Q and Not U ? Who the fuck are half those bands?
Jazzbo, we live in major cities, and can see ALL those people at least 2x a year, for free, so why, aside from yr likely covering, do you want to see them all together? By the end of the day aren;t you going to be like... all raved-rocked out and not going to be astounded by the radiohead light show?
I am super not feeling you on the post lollapalooza nosedive into picnic land tip.
I want to see my bands in bite sized chunks and if there was an ounce of justice in this world ( we know there is nto) Erase Errata would headline, and BRMC would be eating dogfood off a plate, somewhere south of Something Corporate's ass.
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