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IO Echo and Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra easily. Savages were also great but I'm not counting them since they went basically at 3.

Personally my vote is in for the Jenna Jameson Fair.

So that'd be, like, prostitution? Kindergarten teachers? Not really sure where specifically you are going with this.

Or more importantly, Coachella can't teach people to be interested in women musicians. Coachella can and does book smaller acts based on talent alone but at the end of the day they are a for profit...

I still like the recycle dinosaur but that's because dinosaurs are awesome. FACT.

God dammit right on. Thank you GV, this combination was amazing!

If I had the money and could take enough time off from work I'd do it twice for sure.

ITT: Haters post poorly researched articles written by hacks about something that everyone knew a long time ago; claim victory.

Because practice only makes perfect if you're a studio band, right?

Thumbs down.

I can't say anything about the Sahara because I never step foot in it but overall very very no, in fact if anything it seemed a little less crowded than normal.

Man I hear this one. I was moving into the tent right after 2 Chainz finished so I could see Bat For Lashes and it was like an impenetrable wall of bros. Eventually the fact that the music had...

I'm trying to look at the positive side of this and hoping that at least a few of those RHCP fans learned a little something about quality by sitting there and listening to Nick Cave. If even one...

I don't get it, there isn't even a single S in the words "girlfriend experience". Shouldn't that be GFE?

Sigh, drummers get 0 recognition even when they are the most musically skilled member of the group. Don't worry, Brian Chase, I know who you are!

I thought their set was fine overall, although I...

They'll just book The Black Keys to play every slot at every stage.

As someone who has never smoked a single cigarette in his entire life:

Get over it, stop being a pussy.

The I-10 was INSANE. I left after Nick Cave because I have less than 0 interest in RHCP and the I-10 was fucking surreal. It looked like one of those video clips you'd see on Planet Earth or...

My multitool, how I miss ye. Well, I didn't LOSE it, so much as security confiscated it. Yeah I know it has a knife blade as one of the attachments so this can be seen as my own fault but I've...

I thought he just seemed stoned. Pretty decent set though.

Not noticing that chief. Maybe you are just seeimg more "young" bands than usual this year? To me the demographic mix seems more or less consistent with previous years.

I am not the right dude to ask, I know almost nothing about this style of music. I will say that I peraonally enjoyed it a heck of a lot.

I was in front on the rail and when I looked back it was a sea of people as far as the eye can see. And everyone was packed in luke sardines.

It really was an excellent set. Ian struggled in a few places but overall performed better than I had dared to hope. The rest of the band freaking killed it. One of my top shows I've ever seen at...

In no particular order:

Franz Ferdinand
Violent Femmes
Bat For Lashes
Spiritualized
Savages

Not sure where you're picking up that people were let down. Everyone around me loved it. The person I was there with didn't even know the Roses and though it was awesome. The people in this thread...

Have to go with The Stone Roses, Blur, and Tokya Ska Paradise Orchestra.

That's funny, I feel like the haters are the ones making excuses. Your primary problem appears to be that it was not very crowded. So what you are really saying is that popularity is all that...

They did last year, huge pain in the ass for me since I wasn't even camping but they parked me in a lot on the ass end of nowhere so I had to go through camping to get to the venue.

I'm 99% certain of the answer to this but I better check just to make sure. I know the merch booth normally accepts debit cards. I imagine the Zia tent probably does as well? Correct?

Suck it up, walk it off, man up, etc. etc.

You sir, are in luck. It turns out that almost everything that's actually GOOD is horrible for you! Eat to your heart's content, secure in the knowledge that if it tastes good, it's probably...

And then



Thank you folks, I'll be here giving away pearls of insight about society all week.

Stop. Fucking stop. Never end sentences addressed to Zafocaine with question marks, it just encourages him to go ahead and post some more. No idea what he's even talking about in this thread since...

It's not the Mormon thing that makes me question it, it's the 5 wives thing. I have nothing against Mormons personally, at least not anymore than I have against any religious person.

Not sure if serious...

It's time for another edition of Good Idea/Bad Idea.

Good idea: Throwing a penny into a fountain to make a wish.

Bad idea: Throwing your cousin Penny into a fountain to make a wish.

It's a lovely sentiment but I hope they realize that most people in our modern culture of narcissism are not going to give 2 shits about this request and will do it anyway. Just saying, hopefully...

Please don't, I'd like to hear Ian Brown sing at least a few of them :P.

IO Echo is the must see for me. Every other pre-3PM band that I plan to see I can take or leave, but if I arrive too late and miss IO Echo I will be pissed at myself.

This.

$20, you can just send me a personal check, that will be fine.

Yeah that's the boat I'm in. I can choose between Rodriguez OR seeing Social Distortion and then La Roux, I can't do both... I'm gonna have to go with the latter.

I always stay for full sets so my list is smaller but it looks like I'm going:

FRIDAY
Io Echo
Tokyo Ska Paradise
Jake Bugg
Metric
Palma Violets
Jello Biafra
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Hey guys check out my new Geocities site I think you'll really like it it's got animated gifs in the background and bright yellow text on a black background it's pretty dope also it's a portal so...

I Am The Resurrection to close out Friday night aaaaaaahhhhhh yeah. Just as I hoped!

How am I handling it? By crying inside, then sucking it up and seeing Sigur Ros.

Good to know, I'll probably skip them and see Palma Violet then, unless they are ALSO awful live in which case I'll happily skip both and check out the Zia tent or something.

They should be moved to the Mojave and move Franz Ferdinand to the main, seriously. I understand that FF are not really in the public eye anymore and your average casual music fan has forgotten them...

Modest Mouse vs. Jello Biafra hurts a little but it's basically a no brainer, Jello is a fucking legend.
Blur vs. Grinderman is awful but I'm gonna have to go with Blur.
Sigur Ros vs. New Order,...

Congratulations, it sounds like you're not an alcoholic! Unfortunately, though, it turns out that everyone else on the planet do not have the same genetic makeup as you do. I know. I was shocked...