Monday’s Hors D’Oeuvres: Coachella Roundup
Every blogger and their brother attended Coachella this weekend with the exception of the Hidden Track crew. If you perform a google news search on Coachella you’ll find 2,322,800 entries from the past few days. We’ve cut through the bullshit to bring you the worthwhile articles, posts and multimedia clips.
Here’s some of our faves:
- The inflatable pig from Pink Floyd’s Animals was lost at Coachella
- Everyone can’t stop talking about Prince’s spectacular performance
- Portishead kicked the boys from Stereogum’s ass (photos)
- Rolling Stone shares 63 killer photos from the scene, and also publishes Tegan and Sara’s Coachella blog
- Brooklyn Vegan shows some love for NYC artists at Coachella
- Billboard’s Mitchell Peters lays out the highlights from the first two nights
- Roger Waters brought Coachella to a close with a giant inflatable pig
- Benjy Eisen reports on how Stephen Malkmus rolls
- Mother Jones’ The Riff blog describes the unusual scene at Coachella
- Clear Channel launched a new format inspired by Coachella
For all of your Coachella audio needs:
- Largehearted Boy’s 2008 Coachella Live Music Downloads and Streams page only has a few entries, but you can be sure it will grow by leaps and bounds over the next few days.
Finally, we found a buncha great videos on YouTube:
- Prince: Little Red Corvette, Creep (Radiohead cover) Version 1, Creep V2, Creep V3, 1999 v1, 1999 V2,
- The Raconteurs: Many Shades of Black, Carolina Drama, Old Enough, Steady As She Goes, Hold Up, Level, Blue Veins, Top Yourself, Consoler of the Lonely, Salute Your Solution,
- Animal Collective: Fireworks, Chocolate Girl, Comfy In Nautica, House, Bear Hug,
- Portishead: We Carry On,
- Tegan and Sara: The Con, Living Room
- Black Kids: I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend
- The Swell Season: Cactus (Pixies Cover)
- MGMT: Weekend Wars
- Vampire Weekend: I Stand Corrected
- Prince: Creep (Radiohead cover)
- The Breeders: Cannonball
- Fat Boy Slim: Finale
- Roger Waters: Eclipse
- Death Cab: Soul Meets Body
- Cold War Kids: St. John, Hospital Beds,
- Roger Waters: Complete DSOTM Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Kraftwerk: Numbers/Computerworld, Tour De France
- Metric: Poster of a Girl, Satellite Mind, Dead Disco,
- Dan Deacon: Okie Dokie
- The Verve: Bittersweet Symphony V1, V2,
- Shout Out Louds: Please Please Please
- Goldfrapp: Number 1
We’ll keep adding to this list as new posts and videos hit the web.
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
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Great work Scotty! Thanks for all the links.
i really need to see prince. near the top of my list of people i’ve never seen in concert.
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man every time I forget why I like Prince, I see stuff like that.
Coach, if he ever does a Las Vegas run again, you have to see it, it was fantastic…
im enjoying the DSOTM video.
kinda amazing how many videos are up already…but where is my morning jacket???
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