This week’s entry in the “GET PSYCHED” series is the first of a two-parter focusing on UK bands playing the Coachella Festival in 2012. Not sure if you noticed, but there’s a sort of mini British Invasion taking place in the desert this spring. And it’s not just reflective of some new trend exploding in [...]
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Coachella 2012: GET PSYCHED (Part 3)
Posted: February 26, 2012 by Sean Flinn in MusicTags: alternative music, Arctic Monkeys, Buzzcocks, coachella, Pulp, Radiohead, The Vaccines
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Coachella 2012: GET PSYCHED (Part 2)
Posted: February 17, 2012 by Sean Flinn in MusicTags: alternative music, coachella, feist, girls, jeff mangum, m. ward, st. vincent
This week’s “GET PSYCHED” post spotlights some of the unconventional but brilliant songwriters performing at the Coachella Festival in 2012. All five of them hail from a long tradition of great North American singer-songwriters (your Bob Dylans, your Leonard Cohens, your Victoria Williamses) — but all have put a distinctively modern twist on the craft. [...]
Each and every year, my wife and I and a big group of close friends shove our adulthood into a closet, pack up our cars, and head out to Indio, Calif. for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival — Coachella, for short — the biggest and best respected music festival in North America. [...]
