The headliner's are an awful shame and there is a lot of re-used acts found on this line-up despite Flying Lotus, Guided By Voices, Archers of Loaf, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Beach House, Deerhunter, Yeasayer, and Death from Above '79.
A bunch of great and a bunch of blah.
Not much of an elaborate model for your 10 year anniversary, but a good basis that needs additional work.
Coachella wins Round 1 in America so far.
There has been an interesting "unidentified flying object" filmed from three different perspectives, which occurred a few nights ago on Temple Mount in Old Jerusalem.
The first and second perspectives are the most interesting and unproven pieces of footage that occurred at the Dome, while the third perspective has been concluded as thoroughly edited and entirely imitated (Source: John of UFOeyes.com). Contextualizing obvious speculation, these are fun bits of filming/editing/creation of pseudo-contact, or ball lightning, regardless of the third videos unauthenticities.
Perspective #1:
Perspective #2:
Perspective #3:
The historic location of Solomon’s Temple, the Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus and today’s Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount is one of the most hotly contested religious sites in the world, subject to claims from both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The rock over which the dome stands is the Foundation Stone described in Jewish tradition as the place from which the world was created, also regarded in Islamic faith as the step-off point for Muhammad’s ascent into heaven and remembered by Christians as the location of Jacob’s dream.Source: Jon Kelly
This is not the only UFO sighting that has occurred in the last few days. A record number of sighting, pictured below, account for many unusual and fantastical attractions over the last few months:
Source: Google Maps
It should be mentioned that there is a phenomenon known as "ball lightning" which may account for the Dome of the Rock sightings: "As ball lightning has no established properties, it cannot be argued to be a probable match for any given report. It is fair to say that it's likely that one or more unknown phenomena exist that have triggered eyewitness accounts of hovering balls of light, but there's insufficient theory to support assigning these accounts a positive identification of ball lightning. Indeed, as ball lightning can only honestly be described as an unknown, it would be illogical to use it as an explanation for any report." (Source: Brian Dunning)
Coachella takes place in Indio, California and is globally recognized as one of the best festivals in the world. As with previous years, Coachella is the early bird of festivals occuring in mid-April, and the line-up has recently been announced forming another strong year of excellent musical acts:
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Kanye West and Arcade Fire both have respectable places headlining the festival this year, and the addition of Kings of Leon specifically panders to the mass of casual music fans, but it is underwhelming for someone who has not bothered with the band since Aha Shake Heartbreak back in 2005 and for those who have previously seen Kanye and Arcade Fire. That being said, the Strokes literally make up for all of that.
Here are the rest of the bands who we would work our daily schedule around:
the Black Keys, Interpol, the Chemical Brothers, Robyn, Crystal Castles, Cee-Lo Green, Sleigh Bells, Nosaj Thing, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, !!!, YACHT, Titus Andronicus, OFWGKTA, Mount Kimbie, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Broken Social Scene, Erykah Badu, the New Pornographers, Gogol Bordello, Shpongle, the Tallest Man On Earth, Wire, Kanye West, the Strokes, Death From Above 1979, the National, Nas & Damien Marley, Ratatat, Beardyman, SBTRKT, Joy Orbison, Kyle Hall, the Drums & Lightning Bolt.
Bold - Highly Anticipated.
Strike-through - Previously seen.
Although greenT is leaning towards an unseen festival/adventure/experience and we're hoping that Bonnaroo brings tha ruckus for their 10th Anniversary this year, our personal been-there-done-that perspective means nothing when this entertaining video should perfectly sway anyone's decision to visit one of the best festivals in the world:
Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.
For the past decade, Montreal's Tim Hecker has released an abundant amount of atmosphereic electronic music and will continue this trend into the new year with the release of his wickedly named sixth full-length album Ravedeath, 1972.
Stereogum have just featured a track called "Hatred Of Music I" from his soon-to-be leaked album that physically comes out on Valentine's Day and we'll wager that many near-sighted boyfriends will willingly force their hair dresser girlfriends to listen and re-listen and re-listen to this album until loves makes itself that day.
The track can be nabbed below and to your right.
Tim Hecker - Hatred Of Music I
