Tag: coachella
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Coachella is Coming!

With weekend 1 starting a week from today, organizers are hopefully facing the last major change of the season. On Monday, Ye (Kanye) bowed out of the third headlining spot. He was replaced on Wednesday by Swedish House Mafia (SHM) and The Weeknd. Since SHM was already on the lineup, previously without an assigned day,…
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Starting Back Up

The last time I blogged was February 29, 2020, a few weeks before the pandemic reached the US. Even though I started watching live music again back in May, 2021, I still hesitated to start this back up. This was mainly because I felt like this medium had grown obsolete, while other forms of social…
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Festivals, New Music, and a Fundraiser album from Ward

Over the next couple months, I’m going to highlight different artists from the two festivals I’m attending in the spring, Coachella and Bottlerock. I’ll highlight one I’ve seen, and one I haven’t. Bottlerock Have seen! Janelle Monae I’m surprised that’s she playing, to be honest. That’s not a knock; she’s toured quite a bit the…
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Happy New Year: Coachella Edition

Happy New Year! After some teasing from Coachella on Twitter (see below), they finally released the lineup last night. And it’s pretty damn awesome. How did I do on my guessing last time? Here are the highlights from the lineup below: The headliners, which already leaked, were accurate: Rage Against the Machine (who were at…
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Favorite albums, live sets. Also, Coachella 2020?

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Most spun albums this year… (In no particular order)…. 1. Lana Del Rey – “Norman Fucking Rockwell” (2019) // I liked this album a lot more than I wanted to. The first cut…
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Rage at Coachella! And an October wrap up!

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Since I haven’t blogged about music in a couple of weeks, I’ve got a lot to go over, and I’ll try to do it as quickly as I can…but first thing’s first… Rage…
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Finally Got Around To Coachella

Coachella Over three months later, I’ve finally gotten around to writing about my experience at Coachella, oddly enough my first. For years I avoided going, with reasons varying from not liking lineups, to not wanting to travel to the desert at a busy time in the semester. I finally realized that I needed to venture…