Coachella 2013 - The Postal Service reunites, music snobs love/hate it

Still one of the top festivals I would love to attend but so damn expensive
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so damn expensive.  that saturday line-up is nice, but friday and sunday seem pretty meh to me.

if i had the money to do one big festival, i would skip over to primavera this year. would probably cost less than coachella, too.

Primavera looks incredible. But there is a HUGE chunk of truly great bands at Coachella this year. And I must give a shoutout to DC's own Deathfix and the Evens for being there too, which is really nice to see. I'm happy for those guys. My only consolation for not going is that I've seen most of these bands anyway, and I'm sure a bunch will come through the area at some point this year.

Aside from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the other band I'm getting sick of is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They have to be one of the most overrated, non-deserving bands out there. I just don't get the appeal. Vampire Weekend too. I think it just boils down to the fact that the YYYs and RHCPs have very good management and they can get the bands whatever they want. The RHCPs is basically a legacy act that fills a void at these events when they can't get the Rolling Stones or a Pink Floyd reunion or whatever. There's a few of them out there. I'd include the Foo Fighters and Metallica in that category. Sad that a band like the Beastie Boys, whom I really like and don't mind seeing, won't be appearing at these things again. But I guarantee you in a few years you'll see an Oasis reunion, a Sugarcubes reunion, and I'm sure Coldplay will headline sometime again within the next 3 years. All they can keep doing is making sure there are decent 2nd tier bands to keep it interesting.

what you say about my coldplay?

bearman wrote:
Aside from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the other band I'm getting sick of is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They have to be one of the most overrated, non-deserving bands out there. I just don't get the appeal. Vampire Weekend too. I think it just boils down to the fact that the YYYs and RHCPs have very good management and they can get the bands whatever they want. The RHCPs is basically a legacy act that fills a void at these events when they can't get the Rolling Stones or a Pink Floyd reunion or whatever. There's a few of them out there. I'd include the Foo Fighters and Metallica in that category. Sad that a band like the Beastie Boys, whom I really like and don't mind seeing, won't be appearing at these things again. But I guarantee you in a few years you'll see an Oasis reunion, a Sugarcubes reunion, and I'm sure Coldplay will headline sometime again within the next 3 years. All they can keep doing is making sure there are decent 2nd tier bands to keep it interesting.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the best live bands in the world.  Their last album was one of the top 10 of the decade.  I think they are very underrated as a band and if they had a male lead singer they would be headlining. 

Hoping this means Earl Sweatshirt is back and active.

Funny, I've seen the Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3 times, never thought of them as being a great live band. I've tried, trust me. But I'm glad that folks get enjoyment from them.

StoneTheCrow wrote:

wml7 wrote:
None of the Coachella headliners are wow, but the undercard is pretty decent. 

My take as well.  Undercard is strong enough to make going very worthwhile (wish I were, in fact).

The Chili Peppers' ongoing ability to score headlining gigs at festivals is rather astounding.

Even though I told Antony Kiedis "why don't you do us both a favor and change professions" in 1984.. I don't think it is hard to see why they get headlining gigs.  They have had a ton of radio play for the stuff that came out during the Frusciante years.  He is a musical genius and incredible guitarist.  I am sure people going to a festival don't realize that Frusciante isn't in the band they just want to hear all the hits.  

atomicfront, two things

everybody here knows you are a past boardie and trying to pass yourself off as somebody new.  nobody believes a single word that comes out of your hands.  it is amusing, for me, to read what you post, so by all  means keep it up . . . just realize that everybody else thinks you are a ______.

walkonby wrote:
atomicfront, two things

everybody here knows you are a past boardie and trying to pass yourself off as somebody new.  nobody believes a single word that comes out of your hands.  it is amusing, for me, to read what you post, so by all  means keep it up . . . just realize that everybody else thinks you are a ______.

well then they are plainly pretty damn stupid.  I guess it would explain why they think primavera has a better line-up than coachella.  When all the decent bands playing primavera are playing coachella and coachella has a ton of great bands that aren't playing primavera. 

It's very interesting to see the Three O' Clock buried in that line-up they would be great to see live again, i'm guess a Black Cat Backstage gig would be in order for them. 

atomicfront wrote:

walkonby wrote:
atomicfront, two things

everybody here knows you are a past boardie and trying to pass yourself off as somebody new.  nobody believes a single word that comes out of your hands.  it is amusing, for me, to read what you post, so by all  means keep it up . . . just realize that everybody else thinks you are a ______.

well then they are plainly pretty damn stupid.  I guess it would explain why they think primavera has a better line-up than coachella.  When all the decent bands playing primavera are playing coachella and coachella has a ton of great bands that aren't playing primavera. 

i couldn't have said it any better.

Day 2 actually looks pretty rad, HOW the hell is Phoenix fucking headlining this?

This indeed would be awesome.

kosmo wrote:
It's very interesting to see the Three O' Clock buried in that line-up they would be great to see live again, i'm guess a Black Cat Backstage gig would be in order for them. 

Cosigning everything Bearman has said in here.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Day 2 actually looks pretty rad, HOW the hell is Phoenix fucking headlining this?

yeah i love all this rhcp shouldn't headline anything, who are they, what have they done, have they had a career . . . as big as phoenix?

Whoah. Thanks!

I love reading stuff like this by the way: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/coachella-haters-disappoi_n_2547849.html

The musical elitist in me enjoys seeing people react negatively to the fact that the festival has basically gone back to a much older format (hard to see any holograms showing up this year).

Also, some people are complaining about how there are too many "old" bands. Well, if you're going to make it such an expensive ticket, you're sure as hell going to need to draw older folks that can afford to pay more money and travel. For many it involves plane tickets, car rentals, hotels, gas money, etc. Not just a concert ticket. That adds up very fast.

walkonby wrote:

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Day 2 actually looks pretty rad, HOW the hell is Phoenix fucking headlining this?

yeah i love all this rhcp shouldn't headline anything, who are they, what have they done, have they had a career . . . as big as phoenix?

Remind me how many ALBUM Pheonix has under their belt?

Say what you will about the Chili Pepers, but God damn, Phoenix? Really? At this rate Sleigh Bells should headline every day next year. At least they have 2 fucking albums…….. if that's even an arguement…

actually, phoenix have quite a few albums . . . only problem is ninety ninety point nine nine percent of all people only can name their last one.

Relaxer wrote:
Hoping this means Earl Sweatshirt is back and active.

I thought this was the case but that he isn't quite the old Earl.