Keep your eyes on the skies people. A reward is up for the person who finds the inflatable pig that floated away during the closing performance at the Coachella festival. What’s in it for the finder of the pig?… $10,000 and 4 tickets to Coachella for life. Probably get to meet Roger too. I wonder what it’s worth if the finder holds out for a while.
Every year around this time my mouth drops open and my eyes get big and i race to my online bank account to see if somehow i have more in savings then I actually do. I must know if somehow the bank has made a mistake and I’ll have enough money to fly out to California to enjoy one of America’s best festival lineups.
The big announcement dropped yesterday and let me just be the first to say thank you to the organizers of Coachella. My heart did not skip any beats and I have not had to wrestle with the thought of selling barely necessary body parts to pay the $270 Dollar charge for 3 day access plus airfare out to Cali. Glory Hallelujah! The line up sucks and there is no way I’m even tempted to fly across the country to see it.
Here are the “Big 3″
Seriously is this a joke? Jack Johnson? Jack Motherfuckin Johnson? Don’t get me wrong he plays “nice” music, but headlining a night? As in that is what the entire day is leading up to? Then we have Portishead…. Now I’m not a big fan of the band but they have some cool stuff, again though Headlining a night of the festival? Really? Then the big closer Roger Waters doing Dark Side of the Moon. Okay that is kind of cool and all. If the rest of the festival was on par with how it was in the past i probably would not have an issue with that even though he is playing ancient music at a festival more known for bringing in up and coming talent.
Some other bands of note that will be there are: the national, the verve, the raconteurs, the breeders, animal collective, john butler trio, black lips, architecture in helsinki, death cab for cutie, dwight yoakam, rilo kiley, mia, cold war kids, malkmus & the jicks, deVotchka, cold war kids, islands, vhs or beta, dredg, my morning jacket, spiritualized, justice, metric, autolux, black mountain, the annuals, and others. You can find the full line up here
Don’t get me wrong there are some nice bands in that list and some of them i like a lot. It just seems the festival doesn’t have the punch that it had in the past. Before it seemed so many of the band names rolled off my tongue and desire ran through me to see them. I’ve read that perhaps a lot of the bands i did not list were electronic artist and this year’s lineup has a great electronic line up… Well that is not really my thing so maybe that is why I’m underwhelmed today.
Sorry guys Jack Johnson is just not gonna get it done for me. So what do you all think? Am i being too harsh? Am i just not hip and i should be jumping for joy for these bands?