I have listened to We Are Scientist for a couple of years without focusing very closely on them, I just like a lot of their songs. But Indie Mom rated their album With Love And Squalor her #12 favorite album of 2006 and it was also a favorite of her son, He Might Be Giant. Not to forget, they are Metro L.A. homeboys who attended college in Pomona. All this placed them firmly on our Coachella list. Top photo, Keith Murray, and above [...]
< < The Airborne Toxic Event , from the Silverlake area of metro Los Angeles, was one of many bands I should have been paying more attention to, which is one reason they were on my Coachella schedule from the start. They turned out to be as excellent as their hype, maybe more so. Although they have not been performing together for very long, they have the stage presence of seasoned performers. Tiny violinist, keyboardist, and backup singer Anna Bulbrook is everywhere on stage, interacting with everybody; while Noah [...]
Coachella's Friday lineup included another performer who used to be in a famous band and who went solo after that band ended with a major falling out among its members-not McCartney and the Beatles, but Morrissey and the Smiths. We had never even tried to get tickets to Moz's Hollywood shows; we assumed the seats we would be able to afford would require a magnifying aid the size of the Hubble to know it was him. Here, we would be only a few yards away from the man whose music we had followed for over 20 years, the [...]
My favorite album of 2009 so far is Franz Ferdinand's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand , so nothing was going to come between me and seeing them up close. They were a treat, too: lead singer/songwriter Alex Kapranos is an animated performer, making faces, waving his arms, popping up and down, and even balancing on top of the bass drum. He spread out his arms and got sections of the audience to sing the la-la-la's on "40 Feet." Photo above by Indie Mom They played only four songs from the new album: [...]
I had not heard of Alberta Cross before I began studying the Coachella Friday lineup. I discovered they are a Swedish/British duo made up of vocalist/guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee (above photo) and bassist Terry Wolfers who write and play 70's style guitar-based blues/country/rock. Their songs have the sunny style of "Jessica" (from Allman Bros' Brothers and Sisters (1973) paired with the chunky chords of Neil Young's Crazy Horse. In fact, the title song of their EP The Thief and the Heartbreaker has a guitar intro that will carry you back to [...]
It's 2009. A year in which the economy has been battering most people left and right. A year which many have found to be one of the most challenging years of their life. And yet, this past weekend, Coachella 2009 posted the 2nd highest attendance in their 10 years of existence. My mom and I made our second-year trip down to Indio, CA for the historic festival this past Thursday. Walking onto the Polo Grounds Friday we both read the opening page of the Coachella setlist/booklet. I especially liked it - it seemed to put everything [...]
Here is the photo gallery that goes with the Friday Overview post. I hope you enjoy this tour of our day and all of our Coachella 2009 posts. Coachella 2009 - Our Friday in Photos
This past weekend I was at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival . It wasn't my first time attending, but I still came away with a few lessons about how to get the most out of a festival weekend. Presented here are my extremely scientific findings that will be of no use to anyone but me ever. 1. Old guys are kind of boring unless they are named Leonard Cohen or Henry Rollins. Paul McCartney ? Two and a half hours of so-so runs through Beatles and Wings tunes. And [...]
For only two people, Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney of Akron's Black Keys make a powerful lot of noise, and they play as if their lives depended on the performance. Auerbach wrenches distorted wails out of his guitar, while Carney screws up his face like he's bench-pressing 200 lbs. and beats those drums furiously. Their roadhouse blues/rock songs paint all the shades of love and heartbreak that a man and woman can experience. Dan Auerbach The Black Keys were not [...]
[Photos by Paul Familetti] Featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , My Bloody Valentine , Devendra Banhart , The Cure , Lykke Li , Antony and the Johnsons and Peter Bjorn and John . [Yeah Yeah Yeahs] [My Bloody Valentine] [...]
Just got back to Ohio. My feet are aching, my hearing is almost non-existent, I am sun burned, and I can't wait to do it all over again next year!! I am really blessed in the sense that I have this amazing group of friends scattered all over the world who make an effort to get together a couple of times a year and hit these beautiful music festivals. None being more beautiful than the three days we spend in the California desert every year. This year may have been the most beautiful yet in fact. [...]
The first act we saw at the Coachella this year was Arizona band Dear and the Headlights , with a pleasant alt-country-tinged rock sound a bit like long-timers Limbeck. In the photo above, from left: Mark Kulvinskas (drums), at the mike Ian Metzger (vocals, guitar, keys), and Robert Cissell (guitar, keys). I think the man with the tambourine might be their producer and friend Bob Hoag. Lead singer and band lyricist Ian Metzger From left: PJ Waxman [...]
[Photos by Paul Familetti] Featuring Superchunk , M.I.A. , Fleet Foxes , TV On The Radio , Dr. Dog , Glass Candy and Amanda Palmer . [Superchunk] [M.I.A.] [...]
Although we were exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated (see yesterday's Overview), I did want to see the man who was my idol When I was 15 years old and who was the main attraction (for me) of the first rock concert I ever attended: 1965, Tulane Stadium, New Orleans. I would have done anything then to have seen Paul McCartney as close as I saw him last Friday night. Over the more than four decades since then, there has been a big change in my opinion of McCartney. You'll rarely see me make a negative comment about any [...]
[Photos by Paul Familetti] With Leonard Cohen , Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Franz Ferdinand , Morrissey and Buraka Som Sistema . [Leonard Cohen] [Conor Oberst] [Franz Ferdinand] [...]
Sabrán que el fin de semana que acaba de terminar, desde el viernes hasta el domingo, se estuvo llevando a cabo el Coachella 2009 y la verdad es que según he leído en la red todo estuvo más que increíble. Lamentablemente yo no pude asistir pero a través de YouTube, al menos, pude vivir un poco de la música que se tocó en el evento. Les dejo a continuación algunas de las presentaciones: The Killers - "Human" [...]
On Friday Indie Mom and I attended the opening day of Coachella Music and Arts Festival 2009 . The festival ends today, Sunday. I will have individual reviews of the bands we saw, but this post contains non-band photos and general comments and observations. Including two where we did not see the complete set, we saw a whopping nine bands. I can see that the time will come when the physical toll of such a day will be too much for me. My feet will need a week to recover from [...]
For those who did not attend this weekend like myself. Silversun Pickups perform Lazy Eye at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio California on Friday April 17, 2009.
Saturday at Coachella brought Amanda Palmer to the WFNX house to chat up her high-school Neutral Milk Hotel musical and perform, as has become the custom, yet another Radiohead cover on ukulele. This... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
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