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. [...]
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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
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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. [...]
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: An Interview with Underworld
Posted: November 15, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: coachella, dance music, darren emerson, Electronic Music, karl hyde, rick smith, tomato, underworld
Verbal sparring with Rick Smith of Underworld at Coachella 1999 The middle of an interview with Rick Smith of Underworld is probably no time start wondering about the pronunciation differences between Brits and Americans. Yet, here I was, baking in the Indio, Calif. heat at the Coachella Valley Festival of Music and Arts, puzzling over [...]
Anonymous No Longer: An Interview with Ritchie Hawtin
Posted: November 15, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: coachella, Electronic Music, Mute Records, Plastikman, Plus 8, ritchie hawtin
[Note: This interview originally appeared on the now-defunct music portal, RadioSpy.com] “The name is familiar,” reads Richie Hawtin’s bio … and yet, no one I’ve queried has ever heard of him or any of his more ubiquitous aliases: Plastikman and FUSE. Odd for an artist who has DJed to crowds larger than many rock bands [...]
