Put Me In, Coachella

And, for the first time in blog history, I hit the trifecta...Three music posts in one day. And I gotta tell ya...it feels pretty good.

After the KROQ Prison Yard-esque INLAND INVASION horrorscape of Summer '05, I swore off big, outdoor, festival-type rock shows. In fact, I kind of swore off large-venue concerts altogether. Also being around groups of beer-swilling people greater than 10 in number.

But I have to say...if this Coachella line-up posted at the Best Week Ever Blog is accurate...I may have to break my rule already, less than a year after it was established.



Holy fucking fuck.

BANDS I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE WHO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SUPPOSEDLY PLAYING THIS YEAR'S COACHELLA, DAY ONE: De La Soul, Sleater-Kinney, Dangerdoom, The Silver Jews, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Editors (whose song Fingers in the Factories has been on repeat in my mp3 player all week), Wolf Parade, The Magic Numbers

BANDS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE WHO I WANT TO SEE AT COACHELLA, DAY ONE AGAIN: The Strokes, The Shins, The Walkmen, Okkervil River,

BANDS I WOULD BE CURIOUS TO SEE SUPPPOSEDLY PLAYING THIS YEAR'S COACHELLA, DAY ONE: Depeche Mode, Portishead, Massive Attack, The Clientele, The Arctic Monkeys

BANDS I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE WHO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SUPPOSEDLY PLAYING THIS YEAR'S COACHELLA, DAY TWO: The Gorillaz, Sigur Ros, The White Stripes, Ween (the band on this entire list I want to see live the most), Sufjan Stevens, Fatlip, Liars

BANDS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE WHO I WANT TO SEE AT COACHELLA, DAY TWO AGAIN: The New Pornographers, The Secret Machines

BANDS I WOULD BE CURIOUS TO SEE SUPPOSEDLY PLAYING THIS YEAR'S COACHELLA, DAY TWO: Smashing Pumpkins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Avalanches, Andrew Bird, Explosions in the Sky, Mates of State, We Are Scientists

That's a ton of bands. Can this thing even be real? It seems to be accurate: there's about the right number of bands on the list, and many of them would make sense on the line-up, as they have new material out in the end of 2005 or beginning of 2006. Some of these acts, in fact, are almost predictable...Of course We Are Scientists and The Secret Machines and Wolf Parade are playing.

But Ween and the White Stripes and The Gorillaz and Sigur Ros and Sufjan Stevens and the Smashing Pumpkins at the same show? As this list has yet to be confirmed by anyone involved in the show, I'm considerably skeptical. Bear in mind, VH1's Best Week Ever Blog also included this potential line-up:




Oh, snap! R. Kelly, Nickelback and Weird Al? Now, you know that one's too good to be true.