This morning the line-up of the was made public for this year’ Coachella Music and Arts Festival—the epic three-day-long music event which takes place in southern California. Coachella rivals such festivals as the Glatonbury Festival in England and Lollapalooza in Chicago. Here’s a slightly tweaked version of the official flyer. I’ve rearranged the artists by relevance.
Friday The Specials • LCD Soundsystem • Erol Alkan • Proxy • Them Crooked Vultures • Vampire Weekend • Deadmau5 • Passion Pit • Jay-Z • Grizzly Bear • Echo and the Bunnymen • The Whitest Boy Alive • Fever Ray • Grace Jones • Aeroplane • La Roux • Wolfgang Gartner • Public Image Limited • The Avett Brothers • Iglu and Marty • Ra Ra Riot • The Dillinger Escape Plan • Ceu • The Cribs • Yeasayer • Lucero • DJ Lance Rock • Dear Tick • Calle 13 • Sleigh Bells • P.O.S. • Baroness • Hockey • Little Dragon • Wale • Kate Miller Heldke • As Tall As Lions • Jets Overhead • Alana Grace • Pablo Hassan
Saturday Devo • Les Claypool • MGMT • 2ManyDJ’s • Hot Chip • Flying Lotus • the xx • Major Lazer • Gossip • Faith No More • Muse • Bassnectar • Z-Trip • Shooter Jennings • Porcupine Tree • Mew • Dirty Projectors • David Guetta • Craze & Klever • Sia • the Raveonettes • John Water • Dirty South • Portugal the Man • Tokyo Police Club • Camera Obscura • Coheed and Cambria • Old Crow Medicine Show • Edwin Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros • Corinne Baily Rae • Pretty Lights • RX Bandits • Almighty Defenders • Kaskade • Beach House • Steel Train • Dirty South • Frank Turner • Band oF Skulls • the Temper Trap • Zoe • White Rabbits • Tiesto • Aterciopelades
Sunday Sly and the Family Stone • Thom Yorke ????? • Club 75 • Phoenix • De La Soul • Rusko • Pavement • Yann Tiersen • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Gorillaz • Spoon • Hadouken! • the Glitch Mob • Miike Snow • Little Boots • Yo La Tengo • Deerhunter • Paparazzi • Orbital • Julian Casablancas • Plastikman • Gary Numan • Jonsi • Sunny Day Real Estate • MUTEMATH • Infected Mushroom • Mat & Kim • the Big Pink • Gil Scott-Heron • King Khan and the Shrines • Florence and the Machine • Delphic • Talvin Singh • B.o.B. • Babasonicos • Dwen Pallett • Mayer Hawthorne • Local Natives • the Middle East • the Soft Pack • Devin Devine • One EskimO
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Also announced today was the confirmation of yet another year of the Music Loves Fashion weekend which will take place at the same time as Coachella. We’ll have more information for you when it’s available.
Here’s the teaser video of the Music Loves Fashion 2010 event at the Riviera.
Dim Mak Tuedays last tuesday was host to a special Christmas party. With Dan Oh and Them Jeans on the decks, the closure of the big room didn’t keep anyone from having a great time. I had a great time and somehow ended up home at 7AM……
In more downer news, my camera’s focus engine died that night, and it’s in the shop being repaired. In the meantime, being Christmas and all, please pray for its speedy recovery. A third of the shots came out blurry; here are a few of the rest:
About a month ago, we checked out Be the D.A.N.C.E. exhibit. On display were 70 Justice D.A.N.C.E.-inspired t-shirts hand-painted by Simone Wicks [hmm.. that's a lot of hyphens]. If you haven’t seen them yet, the designs are awesome. She’s planning on selling these shirts, so if you’re interested we’ll have details for you soon.
Last Friday, we were at the biggest Control yet. I’ve never seen a line for the Avalon as long as the one for Rusko. I’ve heard that the house packed about 4000 people that night! On top of things, we even had trouble getting in, but once it was settled, we walked into one of the most intense gigs ever. The energy in the room was absolutely ridiculous. I suppose dubstep music is really getting big (…or rather IS already). Photos are up.
Friday night, we started out the evening at Siren Studios in Hollywood where Diplo played a special early evening DJ set. Sponsored by Kia Motors, this was the second night of the double-header event at the venue. Unlike the choas that was the Crystal Castles show the previous night, the show on Friday began sober, but by 9PM the energy ultimately built up to levels surpassing expectations. Thanks to the Kia people for putting on these two gigs. Hopefully we’ll see more of it in the months ahead. Following the Kia Soul Collective event, we drove a couple blocks over to the LA Ukrainian Center where Vice Magazine was hosting their 15th Anniversary party, sponsored by Hornitos Tequila. Reflective of my Junior High gymnasium, the choice of venue mimicked the 1994-esque cultural cliche theme perfectly. Though i have little recollection of this, the photos show that this event got wild by the end of the night.
Chromeo was in town last Friday to play a bit of their DJ Kicks material at Discotheque in downtown LA. Photos are up.
On a side note, I lost my fisheye attachment last night. If you’ve found it please let us know [...for karma points].
I don’t mind parting with it though. It was is horrible condition–all scratched up and shit. I just ordered a new Nikon FC-E8 attachment which should arrive by this Friday’s CONTROL where Mr. Oizo will be playing.
Here’s a little video review courtesy of Bryan over at YouTellConcerts:
Chromeo be back in LA for some NYE party somewhere. Details to follow.
Photos taken October 9th, 2009 at Discotheque at the 740 in Downtown L.A.CLICK IT to see the photos… or check out the photo set on our flickr.
Sept 30: French electronica duo Daft Punk has been signed to write the original music score for Tron Legacy (commonly known as Tron 2.0), Walt Disney’s upcoming sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 animation cult hit which was scored by electronic music icon Wendy Carlos. Thomas and Guy-Manuel of Daft Punk have been involved in various films before, but Tron 2.0 will be their first complete feature film score. via Upcoming Film Scores
I’m excited to share for your listening pleasure a leak of the new Daft Punk track composed for the movie. Give it a listen.
These photos had been up on our flickr, but weren’t on the site. Many of you have emailed us asking for these photos so we’ve updated the site to reflect these photo sets.
Click any of the photos to see the entire set.
2009.09.05 / F Yeah Fest ‘09 / L.A.
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— 2009.08.21 / D.I.M / Discotheque
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— 2009.08.14 / Does It Offend You Yeah x Control / Avalon
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— 2009.08.08 / HARDish SUMMER FESTIVAL
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