Coachella!!! (It Probably Sounds Better When Stanley Kowalski Yells It)

The line up for this year’s Coachella (Valley Music and Arts Festival) was released a few days ago and…as it always seems to happen the first year I can actually go to it the line up is…well I’ve seen better.
But it should still be a blast and has a bundle of bands I know (and in some cases adore- see Rilo Kiley) but here is the lineup (Saturday is totally the day to go)

• Roger Waters ( I prefer David Gilmour)
• Raconteurs (Jack White somehow can do no wrong)
• The Verve (did they do Freshmen or Bittersweet Symphony? Or was that The Verve Pipe?)
• Jack Johnson
• Kraftwerk (awesome. who doesn't love german electronica?)
• Portishead*(um, awesome as well)
• Death Cab for Cutie (love)
• My Morning Jacket
• Love and Rockets
• Justice (I’ve been getting into them recently)
• M.I.A. (not a huge fan)
• The Breeders
• Rilo Kiley (adore beyond words)
• Sasha & Digweed
• Café Tacuba
• Fatboy Slim
• Spritualized
• Tegan and Sara (love, love)
• Madness
• The National (really really good)
• Animal Collective
• Mum (I really enjoy spacing out to them)
• Pendulum
• Sharon Jones (I’m assuming with The Dap Kings)
• Stars
• Battles (their videos, at least, are amazing)
• Aesop Rock
• Midnight Juggernauts
• Does It Offend You, Yeah?
• Spank Rock
• Minus the Bear
• Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
• Diplo
• Adam Freeland
• Santogold
• Vampire Weekend
• Dan Deacon
• Hot Chip (really fun)
• Cold War Kids
• Stephen Malkmus
• Gogol Bordello (I’ve never liked gypsys before this band)
• Chromeo
• Metric
• Danny Tenaglia
• Booka Shade
• Murs
• Cool Kids (probably my favorite band name ever…and their music is really good too)
• Sia (love her)
• Les Savy Fav
• Holy Fuck
• Black Kids
• Black Mountain
• Man Man
• I'm from Barcelona
• Kid Sister
• The Horrors (Samantha Morton loves them enough to be in their video, and that’s a big enough endorsement for me)
• Austin TV
• Shout Out Louds (really good)
• Luckyiam
• Autolux
• Modeselektor
• The Bees
• Professor Murder
• Cut Copy (most everything I’ve heard from them I’ve enjoyed)
• Busy P
• VHS or Beta

So let’s see I really enjoy 18 of them and have heard of a few more. That's a decent enough ratio.Maybe it won’t suck. Plus chemicals are always good

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So This is The New Year

and I don't feel any different (except for this WONDERFUL migraine that's making it so hard to do anything.)



So this is the new year
And I don't feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance
(In the distance)

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self-assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that can hold us back

There'd be no distance that could hold us back
There'd be no distance that could hold us back

So this is the new year
So this is the new year
So this is the new year
So this is the new year

Death Cab for Cutie- The New Year [download] buy it on iTunes


There'd be no distance that could hold us back
(my mantra for this year, at least for today)

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