Coachella Music Festival 2007
 

It's that time of the year again. When all the greatest bands (that don't completely suck mainstream emo balls) gather on a little field in Indio, CA and rock the fucking place from here to memories eternal.

So tell me, connoisseurs of Coachella, how many of you are going to this three-day orgy of aural sex?

Official Website

Lineup

Friday, April 27th

• Interpol
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Arctic Monkeys
• Jarvis Cocker
• Sonic Youth
• Faithless
• DJ Shadow
• Peeping Tom
• Brazilian Girls
• Peaches
• Felix Da Housecat
• Rufus Wainwright
• Stephen Marley
• Nickel Creek
• We Are Scientists
• Digitalism
• Tokyo Police Club
• Comedians of Comedy
• El-P
• Julieta Venegas
• Gogol Bordello
• Circa Survive
• Silversun Pickups
• Gillian Welch
• Benny Benassi
• Tilly and the Wall
• David Guetta
• Amy Winehouse
• Noisettes
• Evil Nine
• Busdriver
• Brother Ali

Saturday, April 28th

• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Arcade Fire (I'm going just to see this band)
• Tiësto
• The Decemberists
• The Good, The Bad and The Queen
• Travis
• Kings of Leon
• Gotan Project
• The Rapture
• LCD Soundsystem
• Blonde Redhead
• The New Pornographers
• The Black Keys
• !!!
• Regina Spektor
• Hot Chip
• MSTRKRFT
• Ozomatli
• Ghostface Killah
• Fountains of Wayne
• Jack's Mannequin
• Peter Bjorn and John
• VNV Nation
• Sparklehorse
• The Nightwatchman
• Roky Erickson and the Explosives
• Cornelius
• CocoRosie
• Andrew Bird
• The Frames
• The Fratellis
• Justice
• Bojones
• Pharoahe Monch
• Fields
• The Cribs
• Girl Talk
• Mike Relm
• DJ Heather
• Pop Levi
• Yeva

Sunday, April 29th

• Rage Against The Machine (FUCKING RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! THEY'RE GETTING BACK TOGETHER FOR THIS SHIT!)
• Manu Chao
• Air
• Happy Mondays
• Willie Nelson
• Paul Van Dyk
• The Roots
• Crowded House
• Kaiser Chiefs
• Damien Rice
• Placebo
• Explosions In The Sky
• Konono Nº1
• Ritchie Hawtin
• Soulwax
• Infected Mushroom
• Lily Allen
• Amos Lee
• José González
• Spank Rock
• Rodrigo y Gabriela
• Against Me!
• Ratatat
• Junior Boys
• The Feeling
• The Kooks
• CSS
• Klaxons
• Tapes 'N Tapes
• Teddybears
• Lupe Fiasco
• Mando Diao
• Grizzly Bear
• Mika
• The Coup
• The Avett Bros.
• Anathallo
• Fair to Midland

Look... I'm fucking going. If I have to "call in sick" that Friday I'm gonna go fry some brain cells and chill out all day to some great fucking music. If some of you are planning on going, I would say that we get a whole group together and hang out at least part of the time. Who's game?

One of my friends back home (and maybe you know her...Jessica from Litho/Mr. P's drawing classes?) posted on Myspazz about the festival not too long ago. I really would love to go...but I can't. Since I'm in Tejas.

BUT -- I get South By Southwest. I think it's an even trade :p.

But OMG Manu Chao, and GOGOL BORDELLO!!!
They better bring their slavic gypsy asses back to Austin for SXSW...

Oh dear. If I could possibly be there, lord knows I would. Just to see them.

I know it's just a one time deal, but fuck do I wish they'd dump Chris Cornell and this Audioslave bullshit and get back Zach and reform Rage proper.

As much as SXSW sounds fun, I can't possibly ditch The Arcade Fire this year. I REALLY want to see them live. <3

<3 the Hellsing av/sig!

My god. Brother Ali, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, The Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Ghostface, Air, Explosions in the Sky, The Roots, and, (Last, but most definitely not least), the fucking Coup. I'm so jealous of California right now.

Wow. Rage Against the Machine actually getting together for that gig? Other than them and Rodrigo y Gabriela, none of the bands really interest me. I wish there was an American metal festival of this caliber. :( All the good ones are in Europe.

Yeah, apparently April is the only time anyone east of the Mississippi is jealous of California. :(

Every year around this time I get jealous of Californians because they get Coachella. There are some amazing acts on that list, and I'm stuck in god damn Nova Scotia. Bullshit ;_;

Rage Against The Machine reuniting and Red Hot Chili Peppers, yeah ok. Too bad I don't have a spare 5000 American pesos.

Screw the Chili Peppers. Nobody's going to see them in particular; they're going to see bands like The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Regina Spektor, LCD Soundsystem and The New Pornographers are playing that night too. I mean, sure the Peppers are pretty good, but if I have my choice between them and The Arcade Fire, Canada is going to win this round. <3

I'd highly recommend !!!. Might not be for most people, but I really enjoy them.

So really guys... Is anyone else planning on going to this? Because I already have a group of 3 confirmed with me, including my adopted godson. Who wants to meet up out there and hang out to watch 72 hours of non-stop shows?

Does that mean you may possibly come to Austin someday for SXSW? You really should. Because it's amazing.

Heh...it's the first one I made when I joined this place ;).

I'll tell you what. If Kaizers Orchestar goes to SXSW again, I'm there. :D

Fucking April 28th looks SO GREAT. Hell every day looks amazing.

I want to see Andrew Bird, he is my musical soul mate.

I don't know how they are scheduling out the acts on the days but I know from going to Bonnaroo that it was tough trying to decide between different bands that were playing at the same time. Have fun making those decisions.

Oh man, so many bands I've never heard of. But from what I know, Arcade Fire is gonna rock. I've heard one single from Rodrigo y Gabriela and I liked their stuff. Crowded House? They only have one hit in the 80s. And about RHCP, there will definitely have those hard core RHCP fans there, although Stadium Arcadium is drab.