Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Archive)

so yeah 😁

Man, I honestly think the fallout from this is going to be such an ironic culture shock 🙂

The lineup at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival looks pretty decent; I could actually see myself bringing my parents along this year.

Screw Ticketmaster 😠 After an absolute nightmare of a process, I finally managed to snag tickets (you honestly wouldn't believe the struggle 😕)... and they weren't cheap, either... then, out of nowhere, the digital ones just show up online, looking like they were printed by some laser printer. Honestly, at this point, I might as well just print my own tickets using high-end tech 😲

I’m convinced they just have the tickets tucked under the counter instead of printing them on demand... it feels like trying to buy a CD only to have them hand you one that was just pulled straight from a Nirvana set 😢

You don't seem to go out and buy concert tickets very often, do you? 😬

Happy Mondays are actually performing 👋

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Looks like the Geriatrics crowd is gathering...

Adam Moore said:the geriatric crowd is gathering...

Exactly, I have to agree with 🙂

Here is my transcription from the Vipinmusica forums regarding the Happy Mondays:

... after all that hype and anticipation, we are finally greeted by a band that hasn't produced anything decent in seventeen years. In truth, their last respectable album was "Lollapalooza," released ages ago back in 1990.

And what makes it worse is that the band has returned after seventeen years—likely due to financial necessity, if nothing else—with a new album titled "Uncle Kracker," which Metacritic describes perfectly:

"Please, please, please ignore this album. Uncle Kracker is a wretched experience. Ryder bellows his way through it all, banging on about drugs and low-life in a voice that can barely muster a tune."

So, at the VIP stage, we will see a band missing half its original lineup (including guitarist Mark Day), featuring a vocalist, Shaun RyDer, who can barely speak, let alone sing; if they decide to perform tracks from the new album, we should rightfully expect nothing but garbage!

Among a string of great "new" bands (and sadly, ones very eager to play here in the States, such as Architecture in Helsinki, Art Brut, Figurines, and very likely Spoon), the choice of the Happy Mondays can only be seen as pandering to an audience that lived for their music back in the nineties, who will now frantically rush to buy tickets to hear their childhood heroes while ignoring the fact that they are just listening to ruins...

In any case, it would be best if the stages at Vipinmusica were renamed as follows:

Main Stage "Geriatrics" - Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth, Happy Mondays
Second Stage "The Lost Souls" - The Hold Steady, ChkChkChk
Third Stage "The Quarry" - everyone else

I ask forgiveness from anyone who might find this offensive. This is merely my personal opinion, and as far as I am concerned, I will be hanging out at the stage for the lost souls (primarily for the phenomenal The Hold Steady), while catching some Sonic Youth and listening halfway to ADF.

It is a shame, because this could have been a truly magnificent festival! Granted, we had nothing going on last year, and now we have two (this one and Radar Fest), so progress is evident, but I sincerely hope that next year the organizers will have a better ear for contemporary global music and that America will finally leave all that geriatrics behind for some other country to deal with.
(maybe Canada 😁 )

Anyone know how the set times are looking? Dollsi and Sonic Youth are both kicking things off on their respective stages... wondering if there'll actually be a gap between them.

I finally got a hold of Ivica Beljan 👋

analogharbor442 said:I got Ivica Beljan 👋

Who on earth is Ivica Beljan?
Is it some kind of dental product?

He flashed those teeth at plenty of naive girls from all over the East Coast 👋

analogharbor442 said:So many naive girls from around the area used to flash their teeth at him... 👋

First time I've ever heard someone link Zero Dent to Ivica Beljan... honestly, what a weird take... 🙏 🙏 🙏

Will I ever actually get a chance to feel young in this country?

Adam Moore said:will I ever actually get a chance to feel young in this country?

Yeah, sure you will. ☕

Dream on, man... that ship has sailed.

analogharbor442 said:He flashed a bright smile that captured the attention of countless naive young women from all over the East Coast... 👋

And how exactly does that have anything to do with what we're discussing here...? 😠

Roger Newman50 said:Alright, but what does that have to do with anything here? 😠

It’s about as relevant as pretty much everything else on this board...

I think I'll just vibe out to Sonic Youth and Colored Program, and maybe catch the rest if I feel like it...