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by Jordan Yerman | April 26, 2008 at 09:28 am
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The music-festival season is underway, so we're taking a look at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (albeit from afar). This year's event in Indio, California, features three days of solid music, with performances ranging from Goldfrapp's strip-tese electronica to Gogol Bordello's gypsy-punk to Prince's nasty ol' funk. Also present are blasts from the past Kraftwerk and Love & Rockets... so alive. Check out the entire lineup here.
Coachella began in 1999 (whose linup included Jurassic 5; I'm a fan), though it didn't really make any monye. Coachella became an annual event in 2001, and has a solid history of bringing in popular acts both new and reunited.
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at 13:42 on April 26th, 2008
Richard Ashcroft of The Verve
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at 14:18 on April 26th, 2008
At the artist's camp (for the Steampunk Treehouse) it's happy hour all the time...
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at 08:26 on April 27th, 2008
I went to Coachella to chaperone my 17 y.o. daughter and her friend, and had never heard of most of the bands there. I really got into the Raconteurs music-- not classic rock, but definitely Rock! Reminded me of Bob Seger's claim that "rock and roll will never die".
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at 09:04 on April 27th, 2008
The Raconteurs (and Jack White's other band, The White Stripes) are very much my style as well. Anything blues-based, and I'm happy.
at 10:54 on April 27th, 2008
I adore Portishead and Goldfrapp. Had no idea that Love and Rockets still existed; I probably have one of their albums on cassette somewhere.
at 11:07 on April 27th, 2008
Some really great footage. Good Stuff.
at 13:02 on April 27th, 2008
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at 00:28 on April 28th, 2008
Great shows
at 00:19 on April 28th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. Awesome pictures. Looks like this was an interesting event.
at 00:27 on April 28th, 2008
Great shows - great crowd and a great experience overall!
at 22:33 on April 28th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.