This will be the last Coachella-related post, I promise! Here is a set of bands I took a great liking to when we were there, and I am currently busy pumping my iPod with their tunes:

Electric Touch - what nice, polite boys, and they have a solid repertoire of foot tapping-worthy numbers as well. An Austin-based foursome with an English frontman, a piano, and the good sense to do a lot of interacting with the mosh pit, they score high on charisma and catchy tunes.
Holy Fuck - their live performance was amazing, and from gig reviews I’ve been reading, ‘amazing’ is pretty much a word used constantly to describe their performances. But would you expect any less from a troupe that employs toy phaser guns to generate some sweet electronica beats?
VHS or Beta - when we sat down on the grass for lunch to dine to what we thought was Minus the Bear, I look up at A after a few minutes into the set to ask if she was sure it was Minus the Bear we were listening to. She checks her watch and says oh no, this is VHS or Beta. A fab accidental find, I think!

If anyone is at all interested in going to the fest next year, contact me and I can hook you up with Abid, the Best Taxi Driver in Southern California. He will try his best to get you into accommodations that do not cost an arm and a leg during festival weekend. Now if everything goes as planned, A and I should be hitting Austin City Limits come September for more great music and catching up with Caleb. Roll on Texas!

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Antiguit

coachella08 day 3: sia i

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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Antiguit

In a few short hours, I will get on a plane to sweat it out at Coachella! As excited as I am for this, I think I’m also already exhausted just thinking about the hassle of flying into and living in the desert for three days, drinking overpriced campground water and eating expensive junk food. And don’t even mention the toilets! Ignorance is bliss, ignorance is bliss.

I’m going to bring along some homework to put me to sleep when drunken revelers are going to keep me awake, so let’s see how well organizational theory, Emperor Hirohito, and Portishead mix together. Hah! Check out this week’s Muxtape for a selection of artists whose music I will be enjoying the hot southern Californian desert sun to. I would put in some Goldfrapp, but Muxtape won’t let us upload .m4a files yet.

Tent, check. Cameras, check. Composure—uh, rain check on that. I am so nervous! If internet cafe prices are decent, I’ll work on letting you all know I am alive and having a good time, maybe put up a couple of pictures on my Flickr stream. Or maybe I won’t, because who has time for the internets when you are stuck in the desert with a boatload of wonderful musicians and interesting characters?

On that note, I bid you adieu, and let’s put in another exclamation point to stress just how jacked up my nerves are!

P.S. Dear SP crew: I really meant it when I said bring on the welcome wagon on my arrival; nothing like rambunctious fanfare to welcome a girl back home and wish her a happy birthday with! Have I mentioned how much I love you all?

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Antiguit

My darling sister and I will be at the Coachella Music Fest on the weekend of my 21st birthday! Look at this lineup:

Roger Waters, Portishead, Jack Johnson, Kraftwerk, The Verve, The Raconteurs, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Justice, Cafe Tacvba, Fatboy Slim, Gogol Bordello, Rilo Kiley, Chromeo, Dwight Yoakam, The Streets, The National, M.I.A., Metric, Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Kate Nash, Danny Tenaglia, Pendulum, DeVotchka, Simian Mobile Disco, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Midnight Juggernauts, The Cool Kids, Minus the Bear, Sia, Cinematic Orchestra, Junkie XL, Jens Lekman, I’m From Barcelona, Vampire Weekend, Architecture in Helsinki, The Bees, Yoav, and more, much more!

Excitement is one of those emotions I have a harder time curbing. Whoo!

Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Antiguit

I’m sure the Lebanese capital is wonderful (I plan on paying it a visit someday), but the Beirut I am enamored with is the band. Good grief! They sound like a mellow Gogol Bordello, and their vocalist does that sexy, effortless, lazy drawl singing voice thing. I found them on eMusic a few weeks ago and have both albums on constant replay since. Highly highly highly recommended.

The end.

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Antiguit

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