Coachella Lineup: Save Your Energy for Sunday
Your actual, personal experience at the modern music and/or arts festival rarely centers around the headliners. But when you look at an initial artist announcement, it’s difficult to draw your attention to anyone but the biggest names on the page. Keeping that in view, Coachella‘s lineup at first glance looks somewhat suspect, with only three of the big dogs scratching me right where I itch.
Sunday’s most appealing, with the My Morning Jacket > Roger Waters’ Dark Side of the Moon couplet finishing off April’s three-day event. Though if Coachella is any bit as grueling as many patrons have expressed, I’d imagine there’s only so much gas left in the tank for the impending three-hour marathon of awesome rock > classic rock.
Still, the bands on the “undercard” look promising, and you can’t go wrong with daytime sets from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Rilo Kiley, Spank Rock, Black Lips, The Bees, Akron/Family, MGMT, Gogol Bordello, Les Savy Fav and scores (literally!) more. But no matter what you think of the lineup, you gotta believe that even if it’s just for one day, that can’t be a bad attempt at seeing some good music.
So what are your thoughts? Enough to drag you out to the middle of nowhere?
Slade Sohmer
In 2006 Slade Sohmer founded Hidden Track along with current EiC Scott Bernstein. Slade ran the site until 2008, establishing a scope of coverage and level of professionalism that still exists today. In 2010 Sohmer founded HyperVocal with Lee Brenner and the "purveyors of the vital and viral" have gone on to create a network of highly acclaimed sites that includes Headlines That Suck, Weeping Elvis, Distriction and Spike The Water Cooler.
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if radiohead headlines Coachella ‘B’ (east coast) @ All Points, does that mean we get to decide what our tickets are worth?
Jack Johnson as headliner for Friday??? You have to to f’n kidding me! At least there are a few artists that save it. Overall Coachella seems to be losing a bit of its flavor.
Madness! That’s madness!
Jack Johnson and his Banana Pancakes at Coachella just don’t seem right
I’m with Gamst. Mad-NESS!! (clap, clap, clap) Mad-NESS!! (clap, clap, clap) Second best, second wave ska band behind The Specials and ahead of English Beat. You still wouldn’t catch me even lightly napping anywhere near Coachella (desert hipsters with folded arms= -Chilly), but still…Mad-NESS!! (clap, clap, clap) Mad-NESS!! (clap, clap, clap)