Videos of The Day: Coachella 2008

Here’s some vids from Coachella over the weekend:

Prince covering Radiohead:

Animal Collective “Comfy In Nautica”:

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Coachella 2008

April 25th-27th in Indio, Ca., Coachella returns. The headliners are a bit baffling to me (Jack Johnson is headlining both Coachellas? Seriously?) and overall it is a little off the mark from their usual ridiculously amazing line-ups, but this is still a deep list of great artists. Tickets go on sale this Friday for $269 plus fees. I really want to go, but with a Coachella East (with Radiohead supposedly headlining), the new Vineland, Lollapalooza, Pitchforkfest, ACLFest, and Bonnaroo with the chance to rival this line-up, it is going to be difficult to make it west for this one. Chances I Go now: 40%.

Coachella Announce Line-Up!

After delays and such, they announced some of the line-up on a Mexican radio station. Here is what I have together from URB:

Fri

Jack Johnson

The Verve

Raconteurs

Sat

Portishead

Kraftwerk

Death Cab for Cutie

Cafe de Cuda

Sun

Roger Waters - Dark Side of the Moon

Love & Rockets

My Morning Jacket

and the rest…

Spritualized

Justice

Breeders

Fat Boy Slim

Tegan and Sara

Madness

National

Animal Collective

Mum

Pendulum

Sharon Jones

Stars

Battles

Aesop Rock

Midnight Juggarnauts

Does it Offend You, Yeah?

Spank Rock

Minus the Bear

Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

Diplo

Adam Freeland

Santogold

Vampire Weekend

Dan Deacon

Sasha & Digweed

Rilo Kiley

MIA

Hot Chip

Cold War Kids

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Gogol Bordello

Chromeo

Metric

Danny Tenaglia

Booka Shade

Murs

Cool Kids

Sia

Les Savy Fav

Holy Fuck

Black Kids

Black Mountain

Man Man

I’m from Barcelona

Kid Sister

Horrors

Austin TV

Shout Out Louds

Luckyiam

Autolux

Modeselktor

Porter

The Bees

Professor Murda

Cut Copy

Busy P

Institube DJs

VHS or Beta

I’ll wait to really get into what i think about the line-up until they have the official poster (which is supposedly tomorrow morning or sometime before then). Keep checking The Coachella website to keep up to date.

###EDIT###

Here’s a more complete list from here:

Friday

Jack Johnson, The Verve, Racounters, Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, Swell Season, The NAtional, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoupid, Mum, Peendulum, Sharon Jones, Stars, Battles, Aesop Roc, MIdnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you yeah?, Minus the BEar, Spank Rock, Dan le sac vs Scrombium pin, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Tokman, John Butter Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deaon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Proffesor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American GAng, Lucky I AM

Saturday

Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death cab For curite, Cafe Tacvba, Sasha and digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot CHip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus, DEvotchka, Floggin Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars On Brodway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin HArris, Boyz Noise, Junke Xl, Cinematic Orchstra, Jamie t, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Garbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJS, Surkin, Orgasmic, James Zbiola, SEbastiAn, Kavinsky, Dready, The Birds and the Bees, Grand Ole party, New Young Pony, 120 Days, Yoav, Electrick Touch, UFFIE

Sunday

Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dimitri From Paris, Autolux, The Field, Lintop Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fab, The cool Kids, Sons and Daghters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kuls, Black Mountain, The Animals, Kid Sister feat. A TRak, Mon Man, Duffy, Im From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The horrors, Austin TV, Shoout out Lods, Plastiscenes, Brett Dennen

Coachella Rumors

According to the New York Times, the promoters of the Coachella festival will be having an east coast festival this year in August:


The new festival, tentatively scheduled for Aug. 8 through Aug. 10, is to be presented by the promoter AEG and its Goldenvoice subsidiary. A competing event, the Vineland Music Festival, held by C3 Presents and Festival Republic, a unit of the concert giant Live Nation, is scheduled from Aug. 8 to Aug. 10 in Vineland, N.J. The band Radiohead and the singer-songwriter Jack Johnson have been mentioned as headliners at the Liberty State Park event, though a lineup has not been announced. Representatives for AEG declined to comment.

Also a preliminary lineup for Coachella is up on Brooklyn Vegan. It is as follows:

Death Cab for Cutie
The Breeders
Justice
Jens Lekman
Junkie XL
The Verve
UNKLE
Cold War Kids
Chromeo
Autolux
Spiritualized
Portishead
VHS or Beta
Dan Deacon
Brett Dennen
The Cinematic Orchestra
Battles
Kid Sister
Crystal Castles
Louis XIV

This is great news for festival lovers everywhere. I have never made it to Coachella myself so I am really excited that I will have multiple choices for Goldenvoice fests this year. I may skip Coachella since I’m going to SXSW but the east coast festival sounds promising and I’ll probably be deciding between it, Lollapalooza, Virgin, Austin City Limits, and Vineland this year. Damn it’s good to have choices!

2008 Festivals Preview

After the end of the year best of lists are done for and the holidays are over, it’s the season for rampant speculation about who is playing what festival. The fun rumors this year include Metallica and Led Zeppelin at Bonnaroo and My Bloody Valentine at Coachella. Here at Ohmpark, we heart festivals and will be keeping you informed on all of these developments. Here are the fests I’m looking forward to:

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It’s Official…

Coachella Line-up Revealed

KROQ is reporting the official line-up:

!!!, Air, Amos Lee, Amy Winehouse, Anathallo, Andrew Bird, The Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Avett Brothers, Benny Benassy, Bjork, Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, Bojones, Brazillian Girls, Brothers All, Busdriver, Circa Survive, Coco Rosie, Comedians of Comedy, Conellus, The Coup, The Cribs, Crowded House, CSS, Damien Rice, The Decemberists, Digitalism, DJ Heather, DJ Shadow, Erol Alkan, Evil Nine, Explosions in the Sky, Fair to Midland, Faithless, The Feeling, Felix Da Housecat, Fountains of Wayne, The Frames, Fratellis, Ghostface Killah, Gillian Welch, Girl Talk, Gogol Bordello, Grizzly Bear, Happy Mondays, Hot Chip, The Kooks, The Rapture, Tiesto, Tilly and the Wall, Tokyo Police Club, Jacks Mannequin, Jarvis Cocker, Jose Gonzales, Jullieta Venegas, Junior Boys, Justice, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, kokono No. 1, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, Lupe Fiasco, Manu Chao, Mika, Mike Relm, MSTRKRFT, New Pornographers, Nickel Creek, Nightwatchman, Noisettes, Of Montreal, Ozomatli, Paul Van Dyke, Peaches, Peeping Tom, Peter, Bjorn & John, Pharaoche Monche, Placebo, Pop Levi, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Richie Hawtin, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Roky Erickson and the Explosives, The Roots, Rufus Walnwright, Satellite Party, Silversun Pickups, Sonic Youth, Soulwax, Spank Rock, Sparklehorse, Stephen Marley featuring Jr. Gong, Tapes ‘n Tapes, The Fields, The good, The bad and the queen, Travis, VNV Nation, We are Scientists, Willie Nelson, Yeva

  • Daily tickets and a 3-day pass are available.
  • Tickets are 85 per day with the 3-day pass @ $249 plus applicable service fees. $1 per ticket goes to charity.
  • There are 2 stages and 3 tents.
  • Camping will begin Thursday night. Camping is $45 for the wknd.

Damn that’s a helluva line-up.

Coachella Updates!!!


So, the LA Times is reporting today that Rage Against The Machine will reunite and headline Coachella. They are also reporting that Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bjork will be headlining as well. If you want to see some confirmations and rumors on other acts check this out. The LA Times says that the official line-up will be released this week and tickets go on sale Saturday. I plan to go again this year and you should too.