Deafheaven - Sunbather
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Local Natives - Hummingbird
Atoms For Peace - AMOK
Deerhunter - Monomania
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Ducktails - The Flower Lane
FIDLAR - FIDLAR
Kurt Vile - Wakin On a Pretty Daze
Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion
Pure X - Crawling Up Stairs
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
The Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual
Foals - Holy Fire
The Men - New Moon
Mazes - Ores & Minerals
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Rhye - Woman
Small Black - Limits of Desire
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
iceage - You're Nothing
Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
...no particular order
I don't know if this makes any sense from a business standpoint (obviously they are still gonna sell out both weekends) but it almost seems like they are trying to quell some of the hype that has built up around Coachella over the last few years. This lineup obviously reflects a certain kind of music fan, hence a lot of people hating on it and a lot of people loving it. Seems to me that it attracts an older music fan that pays very close attention and knows a lot about music. I mean there are so many unbelievable bands in small print that maybe the average fan has never heard of. I just think Coachella saw their beloved festival going in a direction they didn't want it to go in (AKA teens kids running around on E) and this is their attempt at bringing it back to what they really intended. That's not to say there isn't a wide variety of music fans that will always attend Coachella (AKA 25+ people running around on E) but it honestly feels like this is an intentional attempt to get rid of a certain type of fan that may not be wanted, which further allows a lot of really diehard music fans to attend... and I like it
I like Meyhem but I feel like he should change his name to the 40-year-old Virgin cause whenever he raps about females it sounds like he doesn't know what he is talking about and it reminds me of Steve Carell describing a woman's breast as a "bag of sand"
For someone who has never seen them, and would like to before they die. It is nice that I get to without paying $100+ to simply see them in my hometown. I'm going to Coachella anyway so this is just a bonus. Nice to scratch another off the band bucket list!
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