Coachella 2011

[miaedu]

Any jubbers there now or attending this weekend?

http://www.coachella.com/

 

[altlover85]

I'm not going, but I'd love to go one of the years.

 

[altlover85]

Youtube is streaming Coachella.

http://www.youtube.com/coachella

 

[bostonboy20]

I have many friends there...but alas I am stuck here on the East Coast...womp.....but I would LOVE to go next year for sure!

 

[altlover85]

I'm loving the stream. I still hope to get there one day and see it live.

 

[bostonboy20]

Mumford & Sons were great...and I'm loving The Swell Season right now....can't wait for tomorrow with Foster The People, Ellie Goulding, Chromeo, Jimmy Eat World....and so many other greats!

 

[altlover85]

I'm looking forward to Ellie Goulding, Best Coast, The Strokes, and She Wants Revenge.

bostonboy20 at Club Cafe they had a CD release of remixes of Ellie Goulding's Starry Eyed. It was pretty cool.

 

[bostonboy20]

I'm looking forward to Ellie Goulding, Best Coast, The Strokes, and She Wants Revenge.

bostonboy20 at Club Cafe they had a CD release of remixes of Ellie Goulding's Starry Eyed. It was pretty cool.

Oh really? that's fun...I haven't been to Club Cafe in YEARRRRRS...lol

 

[altlover85]

Oh really? that's fun...I haven't been to Club Cafe in YEARRRRRS...lol

Yeah, I love going there. My bf said the food was bad there years ago, but he thinks it's improved and I have no real complaints.

The drinks are amazing there as well.

Anyway, super excited about hearing some bands live (or at least as live as it can be from your laptop) for the first time.

 

[altlover85]

The Audience has been better than the acts....already shirltess pics of Darren Criss, Penn Badgley with shirt open.... plus- Kellan Lutz, CHord Overstreet, etc....I have 2 threads in Hot Male Celeb section

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Speaking of strokes, The Strokes are on right now!

 

[bostonboy20]

The Audience has been better than the acts....already shirltess pics of Darren Criss, Penn Badgley with shirt open.... plus- Kellan Lutz, CHord Overstreet, etc....I have 2 threads in Hot Male Celeb section

I'll have to venture over there and check it out! haha



Foster The People absolutely KILLED tonight....so good

Chromeo is great right now...Ellie was fantastic as usual.....

want to see Kanye's set...but don't know if I can stay up....was up Way to late last night watching Arcade Fire and Scissor Sisters...haha

 

[bostonboy20]

So i'm kind of just a casual fan of Kanye's...like most of his singles...never huge on his albums...and extremely dislike him as a person....but man alive he just went hard on that performance...just completely full out....2hrs....hit after hit after hit after hit after hit after hit

I was expecting some guest appearances since a lot of his collaborators were there....but at the end he didn't need it.

The interviews were alright....I kinda couldn't stand the interviewer...she reminded me of Rosanna Arquette in "The Whole Nine Yards" hahaha.

 

[bostonboy20]

I know Darren Criss was there because his brother's band, The Freelance Whales was playing....are they any good?

I love their album....was a bit underwhelmed with their set at Coachella...they sounded a bit off, I've seen vids of them where they sound amazing live, great harmonies and such....but Coachella was a bit different.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOyM3xdSurQ[/ame]

Darren's brother is the one with the light tube drumstick things and the jacket

 

[bostonboy20]

Colette Carr is there <3

That she was

 

[miaedu]

So i'm kind of just a casual fan of Kanye's...like most of his singles...never huge on his albums...and extremely dislike him as a person....but man alive he just went hard on that performance...just completely full out....2hrs....hit after hit after hit after hit after hit after hit

I was expecting some guest appearances since a lot of his collaborators were there....but at the end he didn't need it.

The interviews were alright....I kinda couldn't stand the interviewer...she reminded me of Rosanna Arquette in "The Whole Nine Yards" hahaha.

Coachella 2011: Kanye West doesn't play it safe as he closes the Indio fest


Kanye West said little to the audience for much of his festival closing set. There were no grand guest stars that West brought to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio. There was little in the way of special effects. Accompanying musicians were there, but they were off to the side. Arrogant, forthright and disarmingly open, West's songs unfold like mini-monologues, and this was a high-concept concert as one-man-show.

As theater, West's Coachella set veered toward tragedy, with a song cycle that began with the artist drunk with power, followed him through heartbreak and concluded with a eulogy. As entertainment, West's set was captivating, a festival performance unlike any other, and one that often showcased the artist and the artist alone on a minimal stage. Though rumors of an all-star set were the talk of Coachella, any guests, be it Rihanna or Jay-Z, would have felt crowded in this set-up.

This was not, in short, the kind of set one typically sees from one of the world's biggest stars. West came to Coachella to work, to do away with any sideshows, and instead to get straight down to business. It was a brave statement -- a take-me-or-leave-me-type assertion with a carefully laid-out set list. This was far from playing it safe, as the Strokes had earlier done with a set that was heavy on past hits.


Before West appeared, the audience saw what was largely bare stage, although one with a movable staircase that led to a giant painting that echoed Greek mythology. It wasn't there simply to placate West's ego, as he never really got to close to it. Instead, he emerged from the crowd, significantly away from any of his dancers, and stood alone on a crane that slowly led him to the stage.

As for West's back-up dancers, of which there were easily more than 20, they were not used for show-off choreography purposes, and instead served as a Greek chorus, following the star's command, or writhing on the floor from song to song. Sometimes they disappeared from the stage entirely, emerging when the emotions of the songs called for added emphasis.

They moved in fear or panic of West during the tense "Power," and later were seen gripping their heads in pain. By the time the set got to "Runaway," West found himself with a group of wayward ballerinas, seemingly caught in some sort of magnetic push and pull from the artist.

For the first 20 or so minutes, there was no acknowledgement on West's part that he was headlining Coachella. There was no breaking of character as he went from the plea to find faith that is "Jesus Walks" into the forceful "Can't Tell Me Nothing," in which West masked the vulnerability in bravado. The dancers were gone for the song, and it was just West, stalking the front of the stage and putting the audience on defense.

"Monster" went even darker, with West finding redemption only in sex. Indie rock singer/songwriter Justin Vernon, known to many as Bon Iver, stood off in the fog-shrouded distance. If not quite West's conscience, Vernon's verses foreshadowed doom, and the artist's straight, matter-of-fact delivery were not there to pass judgment.

The set's most harrowing moments came via a brief block of songs from "808s and Heartbreak," when West finally broke the wall between artist and audience after "Say You Will," a song in which the backdrops appear to capture the sound of a life-support system. West declared this Coachella performance his "most important" since his mother died and said he had dreamed of performing "Power" on the Coachella stage as he was writing it

West appears to work as if he's always the underdog and is carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. He said he was humbled to "be able to close the show and see you love me after everything I read and saw on TV said the opposite." He then rewarded the crowd with touches of some of his biggest songs -- "Gold Digger" and "Stronger" among them -- before disappearing under a giant cloth only to reemerge with "Runaway."

West stood stage center, and tapped at a snyth. It was only one note, but it was loud, and it echoed, giving the song an added coldness. This wasn't a happy ending, of course, but it was a resolution of sorts, as the artist found peace only in celebrating his faults. Things got chaotic again, though, with "Lost in the World," in which the backup dancers rushed and moved around the stage as if they were dodging city traffic.

From there, the set went to "Hey Mama," a love letter written to West's late mother. It's a song full of broken promises, and one that closed the set in a similar manner to which it had begun, with West standing alone. Little else was needed.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...fest.html#more

 

[miaedu]

Mixtape: Kanye West "Live At Coachella"

If you weren't one of the lucky people that got to watch Kanye West tear up the stage in Indio, CA for Coachella, then you're in luck. You can now hear his epic performance via this Live At Coachella mixtape. The full video for his set is slated to drop soon, but this should hold fans over until then.

http://www.complex.com/music/2011/05/mixtape-kanye-west-live-at-coachella

 

[AlmondMilk]

I'd love to go one of these days.