As much as for its bounty of music, this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival promises to be a feast for the eyes. Multiple collaborations between the festival, artists and the Creators Project (a joint venture of Intel and Vice) promise to turn several of this year’s sets into multimedia spectacles. You can even […]
Set times have been posted for this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, and based on the number of great artists playing head-to-head sets, there are going to be some tough choices. I’ll weigh in more on Thursday morning.
[Thirty well-spent minutes on a rainy Sunday morning:] The Bronx are the most exciting (if not most honest and uncompromising) bands I’ve witnessed in eight years of writing about music around L.A. They also famously have a flip side, Mariachi El Bronx, and they’re playing Coachella this year. This documentary from Babelgum, filmed in London, […]
The nature of “Let England Shake,” the new album from PJ Harvey due Feb. 15, is slowly taking shape via the release of two of the 12 videos that will accompany each song on the album. They are the work of Seamus Murphy, a photographer who stitched together images and video from a 5,000-mile trip […]
Coachella’s 2011 lineup has been announced with headliners Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, The Strokes and more. Check the complete lineup out below…
My first trip to Lollapalooza (where I was on assignment for SPIN.com over the weekend) was a quite the adventure, as my sore feet and calf muscles can attest. As a six-time veteran of Coachella, I was frequently asked over the weekend to compare the two. My answer? It’s a push. Coachella’s desert vibe makes […]
Ten days after the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, I kinda still feel like this pair of shoes (found late Sunday amid the litter in the abandoned Gobi Tent). Remind me to do a couple weeks of training before the 2011 shindig. Like the Sunday night desert winds that seemingly kicked up enough dust […]
Who: Gorillaz on the main stage In 3 or Fewer Words: They’re only human. I’ll Remember This Until Pee-wee Herman Gets Announced as a 2011 Headliner Because: It was like watching KISS without the makeup. Damon Albarn and crew, numbering 14 or more, performed as a straight-ahead live act instead of as video projections, giving […]
Who: Sly Stone at Gobi Tent Mojave Tent In 3 Or Fewer Words: Sly very stoned. I’ll Remember This Forever Because: Drugs are very, very bad. I realize the irony of saying this since I watched a big chunk of Coachella on painkillers this year. They were prescribed, but that’s splitting hairs. Drugs can destroy […]
Who: Thom Yorke ????/Atoms For Peace at the Outdoor Theatre In 3 Or Fewer Words: Band shackles Yorke. I’ll Remember This Until Radiohead Surfaces Again Because: The enormous Outdoor Theatre crowd for Thom Yorke and his question mark-monikered backing band stretched well into Spoon’s main stage terriitory and reached as far back as the Gobi […]
