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Man, I FONDLY remember the days when I could mosey on up to the Glass House two months after tickets went on sale and buy a pair of tickets free of surcharges. Then it changed to the El Ray a month...

Most talent packed year: 2010
Most you had to be there: 2004
Best overall: 2007

A weekend's different than a week, and I'm sure we could both come up with many times an artist has dicked around in towns for a while, but that's always on their schedule. Goldenvoice and the...

Count me among the many that think this idea is HORRENDOUS. And it's really only one reason: if bands are required to play both weekends, cross off your dream lists right now 'cuz they won't be able...

It was great. Not worth missing Chems for though. Thank God they were so late so people could see pretty much both sets (except for maybe the last fourth of BN).

ODD FUTURE. "fuck fuck bitch jibberish" Exactly. And I sat through Skrillex for that shit. What a waste.

1. (tie) Arcade Fire / first half of Kanye West
2. DFA 1979 (the entire reason I went and didn't disappoint)
3. Kele (biggest surprise, really fun, ended with Flux)
4. The Strokes
5. CSS

No...

Exhausting. I was fourth row middle, getting destroyed with everyone else. I had planned to camp there for the rest of the day but had to leave after to get water and rest. Best set of the fest.

Compared to the Gorillaz, Kanye was Roger fucking Waters. He started really strong and it kinda got flat in the middle, and not that it's that big of a deal, but guests would have been nice. But...

The decision only looks hard. Take a step back and look what you'll have to sit through to get to either. Sasha immediately to BN is so much more fun than KOL to a half an hour in the cold with KOL...

DFA1979 main stage sucks. They belong in a sweaty crowded tent.

http://coachella.com/event/set-times/

They're up

COCTEAU TWINS.

Drive to one of the casinos that are within a half hour's distance away (like Morongo). I've personally slept in my car in one of their giant, indoor parking lots. Just pack a wash cloth and tooth...

Now you can pay 300 for a nice, air conditioned hotel hotel room with a shower and pool and not beat yourself up about it because you were forced by circumstance. And then laugh at everyone stuck...

There will be one or two or three mid list adds like always, and like always one or two midlist bands will drop out.

Lightning Bolt -> RATATAT -> Death from Above 1979! Holy shit, I thought people were blowing wind up my ass with that one. Sunday beats everything with a stick.

I have to see the undercard before I have any sort of reaction to this.

KROQ knows as much as us. Based on their past behavior, I'm sure they get the list like an hour before its posted online. My guess is the 24th.

I was pretty excited about this but the cost + SEATS is seriously tempering my enthusiasm. Are there pit tickets available at all?

The Who / Arcade Fire / Radiohead

I'll be in Australia next year so uh yeah I can't go (please don't get Bowie the one fucking year I can't make it you mother truckers) but I'll gladly claim(lie) its for the festival's integrity.

Every half naked girl became inexplicably 20x hotter to me if she was wearing a feather so I don't know why anyone would complain about that.

The only one for me is PiL. I don't regret making the choice for Fever Ray seeing as that was my favorite set of the weekend, but it sucked that I had to miss them.

Really great. One of my favorite sets of the weekend. Russell mumbled into the mike a lot and said that he wanted to keep the atmosphere "British" or something to that effect.

'10. '07 vs '10 would be ALOT harder.

If you had basically bought tickets for Muse, it might have been disappointing as there was absolutely nothing "special" about this performance. People who radio-love Muse (like me) had an absolute...

I didn't want to post because I'm getting a little tired of the negativity but this struck a chord because I had the EXACT same experience trying to leave after LCD Soundsystem. I was walking through...

Weirdly this is probably when all is said and done my favorite year. The good music was just non stop. This was the first year where I literally had to sprint between stages most of the three days to...

I was there for Bassnecter and stayed. It was great, way better than I expected.

This year was definitely the worst run of the last 7 I've been too. Everything about it seemed so lax. The good of this is that I honestly could've brought in POUNDS of drugs and not been stopped....

soooo great. I got bored at Dirty Projectors and walked over. Better than Kaskade who also did really well I thought.

I'll take my sucking for LCD, but Proxy's crowd where I was was awful, trust me.

Was anyone else stunned at the number of people who left AFTER Die Antwoord? Like the tent almost emptied when they were finished. I couldn't believe all those people were really there to see them...

I blame the youth of the crowd. You would think that maybe Orbital had sucked away all their audience but you could easily walk into the Sahara and get to the middle front without a problem there,...

Faves were too many too count. Them Crooked Vultures, Fever Ray, Raveonettes, Band of Skulls, Jonsi, Phoenix, Muse, etc, etc

Disappointments:

LCD Soundsystem: A short set, two old songs, then...

Please, Mos Def coming out for one song and having another backing band would not have changed anything that actually made their set disappointing. The set list would have been the same, the visuals...

After Fever Ray I ran over and saw a bit. It looked unbelievable in person.

It sucked. I kept telling myself it would get better. It never did. Snoop not coming out and just being a music video set the disappointment going and it never changed.

1. Fever Ray
2. Jonsi -> Phoenix
3. Thom Yorke ????
4. Bassnecter -> Kaskade
5. Raveonettes

Many others. Too many good acts to count. When Them Crooked Vultures had a hard time squeezing into...

EXACTLY. I saw Gorillaz live in Chicago in 2001 (or 02?) and they played behind a screen with the cartoons playing in front, and you could see their silhouettes. And there were no backing tracks,...

Fever Ray, easily. Everyone there will be a super fan (especially as the set goes on) because of what she's up against. I'm not looking forward to standing behind someone's overly ornate headdress...

I would gladly eat out her ass.

Sources close to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records anonymously told HipHopDX that the Compton's finest may share the stage with Brooklyn's finest during Jay's headlining Friday April 16 performance.

I'm...

Crystal Castles are great in the studio and just god awful live. I just don't understand why she thinks she has to destroy her voice like that. It doesn't add anything, it just completely wrecks the...

I really wish Little Boots was earlier because I would've loved to see it, but she's right in the fucking war zone and I'm not wasting one second at her set now.

After seeing NIN's last shows I've seen basically a combined full set of Numan, so for me its Pavement / Orbital, and that conflict sucks enough as it is. I'm seeing Orbital first and if I get ansy...

Anyone who skips Jonsi will regret it later.

Big Pink. Sorry guys, Domino's a great track and all, but look who you're up against.