NME Interviews The Charlatans At Coachella

Watch the Q&A with Tim Burgess below. Visit The Charlatans on MySpace.


MP3: The Charlatans - Blank Heart, Blank Mind

NME Interviews The Verve At Coachella

Watch the Q&A below. Read my review of The Verve @ NYC's MSG Theater here.


MP3: The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

NME Interviews The Teenagers At Coachella

Watch the 3-minute Q&A below. Visit The Teenagers at their MySpace page.


MP3: The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson

Calvin Harris Samples Jamiroquai At Coachella

Enjoy a brand new unreleased tune, featuring snippets of 'Canned Heat', below.


MP3: Calvin Harris - Colours [alt link]

Radiohead: Coachella East, Portishead: Coachella West

URB reports the glorious news: *Portishead is confirmed to headline this year's Coachella festival on Saturday night, according to a high-level source. The same source unequivocally denied rumors that Radiohead would appear at Coachella, but did confirm that the group would play the East Coast festival being planned by Coachella promoters. The full line-up will be announced this Monday.*

MP3: Radiohead - House Of Cards

The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #236

Daft Punk - Live @ Coachella 2006

THE FULL SET!

Enjoy sheer brilliance in the MP3 below.

Check out my photos from Daft Punk in Brooklyn here.

MP3: Daft Punk - Live @ Coachella 2006

The Best Of YouTubed Coachella, Part 3

Amy Winehouse - Rehab


Placebo - The Bitter End


Damien Rice - Volcano


Jarvis Cocker - Fat Children

The Best Of YouTubed Coachella, Part 2

The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)


The Rapture - Whoo! Alright.. Yeah Uh-Huh


LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House


Bjork - Declare Independence

The Best Of YouTubed Coachella, Part 1

Regina Spektor - Poor Little Rich Boy


Andrew Bird - Plasticities


Bjork - Earth Intruders


Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance

Is The US Finally Embracing Festivals?

With the recent annoucement that Coachella has sold out (2 months in advance!), a highly impressive line-up at this year's Sasquatch! Festival, and now some news that Bonnaroo has very very limited tickets available (that will probably be all gone by the beginning of March), it seems as if Americans have finally started to welcome 'musical jamborees'.

Of course, one reason for the increased ticket sales could be the amazing line-ups this year (The Police, Arcade Fire, Bjork, reunions of Jesus & The Mary Chain, Rage Against The Machine, etc), but another could be the whole 'bang for your buck' adage. While Police tickets are running $50-$200+ each on their respective tour spots, Bonnaroo (which will feature Sting, Stewart and Andy) ticket prices range from $150-$215 depending on time of purchase and include a bevy of other bands in addition to the 'Roxanne' hitmakers.

Americans, will you be headed west/south this spring for any of the aforementioned mass gatherings?

Europeans, how are we doing? Would you still rather be at T In The Park?

MP3: The Jesus & Mary Chain - Snakedriver

The Police HEADLINING COACHELLA!

Put the rumors to bed! It's all true.

Get tix here!

Password: ROXANNE (of course)

I am also hearing rumors of a Rage Against The Machine reunion on the 2nd night... hmmmm...

MP3: The Police - Canary In A Coalmine

Coachella Goes Country (And Adds A Day)!

Just in from Billboard: The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will expand to a three-day event for the first time in 2007 when it overtakes the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. on April 27-29. The following weekend (May 5-6), Coachella promoters Goldenvoice will launch an as-yet-unnamed country music festival at the same venue, featuring George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland and Willie Nelson.

According to a spokesperson, the new event will sport four performance stages: the main stage, an "outlaw" stage, a bluegrass stage and a "storytelling" area, the latter of which will feature appearances by "Prairie Home Companion" creator Garrison Keillor and Texas poet laureate Red Steagall. Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Nickel Creek, Ricky Skaggs, Earl Scruggs and Sparrow Quarter featuring Bela Fleck will also perform at the inaugural festival.

Ironically, while country music is a consistently strong seller in southern California, the area's lone country station, KZLA, abandoned the format in favor of a pop playlist earlier this year. The expansion comes eight years into Coachella's existence, during which time the event has become the premiere yearly musical destination for thousands of fans around the world. The lineup for the 2007 edition of Coachella will not be announced until late January or early February, but Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela recently confirmed to Billboard.com they would be participating.

Kenny Chesney and Bloc Party in one festival. Now that's what I call heaven. Ha.

MP3: Willie Nelson - He Was A Friend Of Mine

Even though we're 3000 miles away...

Coachella setlists:

Sigur Ros
glosoli
hoppipola
med blednasir
olsen olsen
hafssol
popplagid

Depeche Mode
A Pain That I'm Used To
A Question Of Time
Suffer Well
Precious
Walking In My Shoes
Stripped
Home
In Your Room
Impossible
I Feel You
Behind The Wheel
World In My Eyes
Personal Jesus
Enjoy the Silence
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Shake The Disease (acoustic)
Photographic
Never Let Me Down Again

Kanye West
Jesus Walks
All Falls Down
Slow Jamz
Gold Digger
Heard 'Em Say

Daft Punk
Robot Rock
Television Rules The Nation
Technologic
One More Time
Around The World
Da Funk

Madonna
1) Hung Up
2) Get Together
3) I Love NY
4) Ray of Light
5) Let It will Be
6) Everybody

Tool
01. Stinkfist
02. The Pot
03. Forty-six & 2
04. Jambi
05. Schism
06. Eon Blue Apocalypse
07. The Patient
08. Sober
09. Lateralus
10. Vicarious
11. Ænema

Massive Attack
Teardrop
Black Milk
Man Next Door
Angel
Inertia Creeps
Safe From Harm
Future Proof

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cheated Hearts
Black Tongue
Fancy
Honeybear
Warrior
Gold Lion
Phenomena
Art Star
Turn Into
Maps

Bloc Party
Waiting For The 7.18
Positive Tension
Banquet
Blue Light
She's Hearing Voices
Uniform
This Modern Love
Like Eating Glass
So Here We Are
Helicopter

Sleater-Kinney
What's Mine Is Yours
Jumpers
Rollercoaster
Sympathy
Oh!
The Fox
Get Up
Modern Girl
Step Aside
Let's Call It Love
Entertain

Ted Leo
Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
Armybound
Some Beginner's Mind
Counting Down The Hours
Me and Mia, Little Dawn
Walking To Do


Wolf Parade
Dear Sons & Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
Grounds For Divorce
Modern World
You Are A Runner
We Built Another World
Fancy Claps
Shine A Light
It's A Curse
This Heart's On Fire
I'll Believe In Anything

Mogwai
Yes! I am a Long Way From Home
Mogwai Fear Satan
Glasgow Mega-Snake
Hunted By A Freak

The Go! Team
The Power Is On
We Just Won't Be Defeated
Do It Alright
The Wraith of Mikey
Titantic Vandalism
Junior Kickstart
Huddle Formation
Bottle Rocket
Hold Yr Terror Close
Everyone's a VIP To Someone
Ladyflash



Anyone care to fill us in on the rest to have a more cohesive list?

Coachella Set Times; Vote Vote Vote!

Without further waiting, here's how the line-up will go this weekend in the Cali desert!!

Kanye West was a last-minute addition you may want to check out.

I love how Tool is playing at the same time as Scissor Sisters. It's like high school all over again; jocks vs. artfags.

I'd actually be curious as to what Tool has up their sleeves. Back in 1996(7?) I was all about that Aenima album.

Who are you looking foward to seeing most?

The Music Sluts aren't going but would appreciate any word on what goes down.

Also, IT'S NOT TOO LATE to VOTE IN THE MUSIC SLUT POLL 2 posts below. Winner being picked tomorrow!

coachella line-up or total lie?

i was sifting through the sigur ros message board and came upon this... a tentative although "confirmed" line-up for coachella 2006.

if it's a total lie, don't kill the messenger!


April 29

Depeche Mode, The Strokes, Portishead, Franz Ferdinand, Fatboy Slim, Massive Attack, Infected Mushroom, Royksopp, Kings of Leon, Doves, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Atmosphere, Blackalicious, Super Furry Animals, The Buzzcocks, Primal Scream, Supergrass, Ladytron, DJ Peretz, The Shins, Dieselboy, Tortoise, Sleater Kinney, Richard Hawley, Grooverider, Death From Above 1979, Yesterday’s New Quintet, The Walkmen, Son Volt, Will Oldham, The Clientele, Lightning Bolt, Cage, The Crimea, OK Go, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, John Kelly

April 30

The White Stripes, Roxy Music (featuring Brian Eno), The Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Boards of Canada, Underworld, Ween, Death Cab for Cutie, Armin Van Buuren, Built to Spill, De La Soul, Big Star, Iron & Wine, Uberzone, Happy Mondays, Dinosaur Jr, TV on the Radio, Elbow, Eagles of Death Metal, The Tears, Esthero, T. Rauschmiere, Cat Power, The New Pornographers, Carl Cox, Grandaddy, Calexico, Explosions in the Sky, The Wedding Present, Andy C, Fatlip, DJ Icey, The Notwist and Themselves preforming as 13 & God, Devendra Banhart, The Coral, Stateless, 65 Days of Static