The camping experience at Coachella 2008 this past weekend was awesome. I carpooled with a girl I met camping last year. Then our next door neighbors turned out to be cool. We spent a lot of time hanging out with them. So much so that we had enough inside jokes to make a cd cover for our first fake cd. Check it out.
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Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Another abbreviated review. These are more like quick notes for my own reference rather than my normal music trails.
The Cool Kids: Kids from Illinois got an 808 and spent all day rapping to each other
Rockabilly/Big Beat/Hip Hop
The Field: Repetitive trance music
Swedish Electronica
The Horrors: Interesting crazy scream rockish type music – I’d try to see them
Garage/Punk/Surf
The National: I like the band’s energy and style, and the singer’s voice works
Indie/Rock/Alternative
The Raconteurs: Jack White’s other band – High quality rock
Rock/Indie/Blues
The Streets: British oddball rap storyteller
Rap/Garage/Electronica
The Swell Season: Quality slow, non-traditional Irish music
Acoustic/Alternative
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Black Mountain: Good psychedelic rock – I’ll try to see them.
Pyschedelic / Healing & Easy Listening
Bonde do Role: Brazilian club music – Aw Yeah!
Funk / Club / Metal
Booka Shade: It’s decent techno
Electro/Techno/Electronica
Boys Noize: Funky Berlin techno
Electronica/Indie/Techno
Cafe Tacuba: Something different to check out
Mexican rock
Calvin Harris: Just a dj mixing music – Nothing notable
Electro/Indie/Punk
Carbon/Silicon: Very British – Could be fun live
London / Southeast UK
Chromeo: Old school funky disco soul
2-step 2-step 2-step
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Brett Dennen: I can’t wait to watch this set.
Oh snap! Brett is playing in SF next weekend on the 20th.
(Ain’t No Reason) – Political folk with a beat – Love it!
(Darlin’ Do Not Fear) – Beautiful storytelling – Love it!
(She’s Mine) – Lovey dovey melodic folky pop – Love it!
(When You Feel It) – Groove folk – Love it!
(Could You Be Loved) – Soulful cover in Brett’s voice – Impressive
(Miss Madrigal) – Slow folk storytelling – I like this style too
Busy P:
(It’s more fun to compute) – Electronic rhythms and stuff – Drug dancing anyone?
(Colette cest Chouette) – Great beat with female rapper – The beat tweaks me
(Chop Suey) – Great remix of Doo Doo Brown
(To Protect and Entertain) – Attempts at being hardcore – Not convinced
(Rainbow Man) – Electronic beats – Sounds good
(unreleased Fancy remix) – It’s a remix – Decent mix
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Black Kids: Fun music. I want to see them live.
(The Twelves Remix of Boyfriend) – Grooves out – Impressive
(Hit the Heartbrakes) – Good times
(Hurricane Jane) – Pained rock disco – Solid
(I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend) – High energy chorus – Fun times
(I’ve Underestimated My Charm Again) – Rhythmic throwback music – Lead singer has skills
Black Lips: They haven’t sold me at all
(Veni Vidi Vici) – Thoughtful boring music – Not doing it for me
(Buried Alive) – Group choruses – OK
(O Katrina) – Old school rock with comedic lyrics – Whatever
(Cold Hands) – High School rock stylings – Engh
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Autolux: Their tent will be rockin!
(Persons and Machinery) – Impending action – Yes!
(Turnstile Blues) – Drum driven shoegazer rock – Works for me, not for everyone.
(Plantlife) – Mix paced ambient rock – Play for background noise
(Blanket) – Heavy rock with mellow verses and stuff – Rock out to this one
Battles: Random and good for the genre
(TONTO) – True alternative, not distorted crap – Refreshingly odd
(ATLAS) – Abnormal music to a drum driven rock beat – Expect Rockin when played Live
(PRISMISM) – Short track – OK
(TRAS) – Various guitar melodies with a constant back rhythm – Experimental?
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Architecture in Helsinki: Could be great live
(Beef in a Box) – Strange pop – It’s high energy OK music
(One Heavy February) – B52’s style dance thump – Doesn’t engage me
(Heart it Races) – Boom dadadada – Catchy
(Like It or Not version 2) – Bouncy, catchy, lyricky – Sure, why not
(Hold Music) – Lots of music – Engh, whatever
Austin TV: Great discovery!
(MARDUK) – Creative instrumental hard rock action – DIG IT
(El secreto de las luciernagas) – Heavy, slow, heavy slow – I like this style
(Mas que a nada en el mundo) – Slower, mixed sounds, with feeling – Works for me
(Flores sobre las piedras) – Instrumental metallica-esqe – Nice!
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Annuals: I want to see them live!
(Sore) – Mixed pace engrossing music, Reminds me of how I feel about Arcade Fire – Definitely Like It!
(Nah Keseyi) – Good, boring – Generic
(Complete or Completing) – Mixed sounds, levels and tempos – Good stuff
(Brother) – Full on Arcade Fire comparison – Bring it!!
American Bang: 4 piece rock – Boring to me.
(Move to the Music) – Good ol’ rock and roll – Not my style really
(Home Mr. President) – Anti war/govt song – Glad they did it
(Jeepster T Rex cover) – 4 piece Rock and roll – Again, not my thing
(Good as Gold) – High energy rock – OK
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
Aesop Rock: Good sound. Probably won’t check them out at Coachella.
(None Shall Pass) – Soft, fast delivery rap over
music – I like it mellowly
(Coffee) – Story rapping over beats and rhythms with a chorus – Great track!
(Citronella) – Solid beat and delivery – Rather generic rap
(Dirt feat Aesop Rock) – Mixed up rap and techno and beats – I dig it
(DBAYAD) – Slow, sappy song, gospelly – Chill music
(Phenomena) – Folky, nasally, Neil Young-esque – Small band sound – Dig it
(No Space in This Realm) – Male folky duet – Mellow good
(Franny You’re Human) – Depressing slow folk rock – Sounds good but depressing
Reviewed Artists from the 2008 Coachella lineup.
120 days: Overall I like them. Their tent will be packed.
(So This Is Suicide) – Electric Guitar driven – Good
(Instrumental) – Great pace! – Excellent
(Come out Come down Fade out) – U2ish – Good stuff
(Sleepwalking remix) – Post Depeche Mode/The Cure – Great
Adam Freeland: Seems like mostly original artist work with a bit of his editing. Good artist choices though!
(Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye) – Great song, but not Adam’s.
(Where’s you god now) – Electronic remix, Loud – Great Energy
(Fujiya Miyagi – Ankle Injuries) – This song didn’t play.
(You and Me Freeland Dub Mix) – Marilyn Manson remix, imagine and you’ve got it – Great
I haven’t posted any new mySpace music trails to my Walnotes in a long time. A full time job will do that to a blogger. Today I’m skipping my lou back in time. If all goes well I’ll listen to a lot of good music and share my thoughts with you.
The subject of today’s string of Walnotes is Coachella. I’m going. Find me if you can. I’ll be the tall guy with reddish hair. And if you get me at the right time I’ll have my video camera doing interviews with folks. If you’re in a band I’ll want to get your thoughts on camera. So find me in the campground at the polo fields.
Now for the music today. On the Coachella website there’s a list of the bands’ mySpace pages who will be playing this year (2008). I’ll try to get through as many as I can.
Wish me luck.
-walter (walnotes) (tall, red and handsome)
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