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	      <title><![CDATA[Pitchfork finally gets around to reviewing Coachella - 4 days later]]></title>
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	      <description><![CDATA[We kid because we love, and nobody loves Pitchfork more than themselves, i mean me.<br><br>Thursday <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/">Pitchfork</a> finally gave a pretty sweet review to Coachella. Not very long, not with many pictures, not with much detail, but it was a review, and it was about as glowing as the Fork can get with something that didn't involve Radiohead or the Flaming Lips.<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Although the bill indicated-- as it should-- Tool, Depeche Mode, and of  course Madonna, as the big deals, kids don't get life-changing  experiences 300 yards from a Jumbotron. Those moments were found,  seemingly on the hour, at the smaller of the five venues ringing the  massive polo grounds. Most of these short, 40-minute sets started to  half-filled tents-- those willing to stake out the front rows during  soundcheck-- but, by second song, artists like Deerhoof or Jamie Lidell  were stunning thousands with energetic performances of music most  record execs would deem too difficult to market. Or, in the case of TV  on the Radio, they played to a rapt audience which <i>included</i>  a gaggle of boner-popping A&amp;R dudes, whose presence added a  strangely compelling uneasiness to the band's increasingly awesome  presence.<br><br>[...]<br><br>That is not to say some of the main-stagers were not up to snuff. Yeah  Yeah Yeahs, Kanye West, and Massive Attack all performed predictably  entertaining if not overwhelming sets. The exception to the headliner  rule, and probably to anything said above, was Daft Punk's mindblowing  appearance. Not to get hyperbolic, but people were crying at two French  robots.<br></div><br>As they say in the political blogs <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/live/festivals/coachella06/">read the whole thing</a><br>]]></description>
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	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-05-05T02:18:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[Notable Quotes from the Stages of Coachella]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20838/</link>
	      <description><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>From Maynard, Tool<span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
</span>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Welcome to our first show in many years. We wanted to take it down a
notch, keep it all small and intimite, invite a few friends. Welcome...&nbsp;
    </span><span style="font-style: italic;">But you, dude.  You need to put your fucking clothes back on.  You're bumming me out.  Got lost on the way to Burning Man.<br>
    <br>
    </span></li>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>New album comes out tomorrow at midnight. I know you fuckers all
downloaded it already. Do me a favor. I'm trying to buy this gold
nugget shaped like a piece of popcorn, for a ring. So I need you to buy
a bunch of records so I can afford that. Big ole gold nugget. Like four
of 'em. Then when I hit you in the face for taking my photo, it'll look
like someone hit you with a bowl of popcorn. Help me out, will ya? I'm
destitute." This was just before Jambi... Fitting considering the
lyrics at the beginning of this song...<br>
    <br>
    </span></li>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Hope you all got a chance to go in
the VIP tent. Of course you all did, right? It's fucking L.A.
Everybody's a fucking VIP. Can I get a witness?<br>
    <br>
    </span></li>
</ul>
From Madonna<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;">This is my first festival ever.&nbsp; Now who's gonna share their drugs with me?</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Does my ass look good?</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="font-style: italic;">
  <li>Don't throw bottles on my stage MOTHERFUCKERS!</li>
</ul>
<br>
From Kanye West during his hit "Golddigger"<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;">All you white people, here's your chance to finally say 'nigger'.</span> </li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<br>]]></description>
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	      <dc:date>2006-05-03T18:27:24Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[coachella: day 2 - madonna justified our love]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20799/</link>
	      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://cdn-34.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users10/marc/default/bestofcoachella06--large-msg-114660138447-2.jpg" align="left" hspace="11"> pitchfork doesnt want to write about it. they didnt send anyone. they didnt talk about it. they want to ignore it.<br>  <br>
stereogum wants to pretend like it wasnt worth it. they didnt send
anyone either. they quote people who werent there who said it sucked
and condescendtionaly asked their readers to wake them if they saw
anything worth making it into the comments.<br>  <br> its tough being
an indie in the city. you are always having to worry what clothes to
wear and hop on fashion trends that make it look like youre not worried
what clothes youre wearing, but imagine how difficult it is to call
something a sellout or irrevelant when you have exactly the same
sponsors on your blog as the festival did and you write about pretty
much all of the bands who were at the show.<br>  <br> those who arrived
early at coachella on sunday were treated to a surprise as they were
herded through the acres of parking. madonna was going through her set.
people were all, "that's not madonna, thats a cd," but every now and
then you'd hear a curse word or an improv or a mistake and once you got
inside the polo grounds you noticed that half of the field was roped
off and protected by a line of security guards and police.<br>  <br>
the material girl was indeed putting the last minute details into her
first festival appearance anywhere and she was going to make it
perfect. <br>  <br> hoards of people lined up next to the yellow tape
and sang along to the hits. an announcement was made that 100
wristbands would be given to those who arrived first at the sahara tent
300 yards away, and each wristband would allow the lucky bearer into
the special baracaded section right up next to the stage - basically
the first ten rows.<br>  <br>  this only fueled the early-bird crowd better than the gallons of starbucks that many were hopped up on.<br>  <br>
once the music had stopped the yellow tape remained. and then after
mrs. richie was safely in her airconditioned ride the tape went down
and a stampede of fans hauled ass to the furthest tent in the field.<br>  <br>
madonna had been heard but not seen and still her mark had been made.
here i am. here i am. i make the fucking rules, even in this scorching
desert.<br>  <br>  it  was hotter on sunday than saturday because both the angeles <span style="font-style: italic;">and</span> demons  wanted to check out her set, which many did ignoring all the bands in all the other tents that preceeded her. <br>
<br>
what they missed was amazing. the octopus project from austin were
first up followed by giant drag and be your own pet on seperate stages.
the dears and mates of state played just as well as their predecessors,
followed by the magic numbers on the main stage, ted leo on the outdoor
theatre, and metric in the overflowing mojave tent.<br>  <br>  <img style="width: 368px; height: 244px;" src="http://cdn-97.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users10/marc/default/Sleater_Kinney_at_Coachella--large-msg-114660108006-2.jpg" align="right" hspace="11">it
wasnt even 4:20 yet stoners and already coachella had given the people
their money's worth. the best, so far, were the&nbsp; suprisingly good
be your own pet and the hyper and beloved metric.<br>  <br> then came
matisyahu. dressed in black. bearded. looking a hundred years old.
sounding like he was born and bred in kingston jamaica. soulful and
sensitive but earnest and real. and genuine. as honest as anything the
beastie boys did on pauls boutique and just as mindblowing. his band
took the main stage and he grabbed the mic and there was no doubt that
there was a star in our presence. true that star is a hasidic reggae
superstar who skips and bounces when hes excited but if you got a
problem with it, thats your problem, not his, since youre not the one
rocking the mic flawlessly. youre the one with zinc oxide on the bridge
of your nose sporting a brockabrella, youve got converse all stars with
black socks who has to get back to working at hot topic in the morning.
he, however is changing everything.<br>  <br> it was like being in
church even before he reminded us about the tribes who found the light
in the desert during days gone by. it was like being in temple even
before he let us in on the insights of the promised land. and the music
transported us to a tropical isle much different than our parched
setting.<br>  <br> the set was so good you had to sit down afterwards.
because im a lost soul i got a beer and asked everyone around me in the
vip tent if they saw what id seen and they all said different things.
one person said they saw a bright light, another said they heard an
angel, and a third said they witnessed a horse growing wings and riding
over the mountains in the distance as a rainbow leaked out of its ass.<br>  <br>
then sleater-kinney came on and brought us back down to earth with
their grungey raw riot grrrl snarl which you'd think would be
respectful of the the goddess of pop, but you'd be wrong<br>  <br>  s-k: hey how many of you are going to see madonna?<br>  crowd: boooo<br>  s-k: how many of you are going to see tool?<br>  crowd: cheeeeerrsss<br>
s-k: yeah i saw madonna in 85 when the beastie boys opened for her.
yeah the beasties opened. that will probably be the last time i'll ever
see madonna. we're so honored to be on the same stage that tool will be
on in a few hours.<br>  crowd: cheeeeeeeers<br>  <br> which led a mini
exodus to the outdoor theatre next door to check out bloc party for a
few tunes before trying to find room at the gobi tent, the smallest
tent, to see the best stage show of the weekend, gnarls barkley who
were decked out in killer/creepy Wizard of Oz outfits that mc brown
captured beautifully.<br>  <br> when their set was done there were two
choices: stick around to hear the mellow brazilian stylings of seu
jorge made famous with his david bowie covers in The Life Aquatic where
he did those tunes in portugese - or criss cross back to the main stage
to see/feel/hear karen o and the yeah yeah yeahs as the sun set.<br>  <br>
new york hipsters in their black clothes and pointy shoes have been
wearing temporary tattoos of the yeahs for years, and lord knows they
put on that life aquatic soundtrack when they find themselves in the
rare predicament of being alone with a girl in their studio apartment,
and again i insist that the ticket price had been more than paid for at
this point, as had been the issues with heat and traffic and lines,
because when karen o decided that she was going to plant her little
freak flag there wasnt a mouth in the house that didnt form an o.<br>  <br>  <img style="width: 327px; height: 217px;" src="http://cdn-61.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users10/marc/default/bestofcoachella06--large-msg-114660126766-2.jpg" align="left" hspace="11">and
people complained that madonna didnt start her set on time but some
think it was because she was part of the 30,000 at the coachella stage
being blown away by the emancipation of miss o: suddenly there was
passion in chilly chill southern california - there was life in the
barren desert - water had come out of rock - and manna began to rain
from heaven. karens nylons werent meant to be ripped, her soul was
simply spurting out from every pore.<br>  <br>so of course madonna
couldnt start on time, how the fuck was she going to follow that, for
even those who didnt see it could feel it clear across the desert.<br>  <br>
but madonna was going to follow it. she had no choice. she would end up
starting twenty minutes late. she had filler music playing over the PA
as the tent heated up with what some people approximate as 3/4s of the
60,000 attendees squeezing in to see what they had never seen before.<br>  <br>
all the flaps on the side of the tent were opened, the sun had set and
even the breeze blew in for a good view. and as the music ended its
track people cheered in anticipation and when it moved on to the next
generic track they sighed. eventually they booed. for the exception of
kanye on saturday, coachella had been running pretty much on time.
right before people got too pissed some madonna graphics illuminated
the big screens and people cheered and when madonnas opening beats of
Hung Up blasted the boos&nbsp; evaporated in the heat and became cheers.<br>  <br>
and when the spotlight hit the woman old enough to be most of the
attendees mother they screamed, and they urged her on when she asked
later if she should remove her pants.<br>  <br> madonna sang, she
danced, she slithered on her belly and the crowd ate it up. hipsters
and homos alike. that dance tent that had just been rocked by paul
oakenfold and louie vega and the night before by hybrid, carl cox, the
audio bullys, and daft punk had seen its share of dancing and im
telling you Everyone was grinding with madonna on sunday - cynics and
fanatics were one.<br>  <br> across the field the dulcet and beautiful
mogwai were doing their thing and later massive attack would impress,
but as much as i love the underground, it was the establishment who
proved why she's the shit and it isnt because of her publicist or
because of any bullshit viral marketing ploy, its because in a setting
of 95 acts, many of whom are cutting edge and raw and emotional, the
cream does rise to the top and the bullshit does have to walk.<br>  <br>
and maybe the biggest reason that the so-called indie bloggers didnt go
to the biggest and best two day indie rock show in america was because
they would have had to figure out how to say madonna's still got it
from beneath their shaggy bangs.<br>  <br> if only these geniuses would
actually emulate those who they cover and show even a shred of the
courage as those who they idolize, then theyd actually earn the cred
they so painfully wish to acquire.]]></description>
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	      <dc:date>2006-05-03T13:53:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[NY Times: Coachella Provided Potentially Career-Changing Performances]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20687/</link>
	      <description><![CDATA[
  Now that Coachella has wrapped, it's interesting to read the reports from the journalists who attended the two-day fest.<br>  <br>  Heres one from the New York Times:<br>  <br>
INDIO, Calif., May 1 — The concertgoers at the seventh annual Coachella
Valley Music and Arts Festival, which filled a polo field here over the
weekend with nearly 60,000 people a day, did not go to be one with the
music and get dirty. Nor were they sad, suburban metal teenagers being
treated like liabilities, roped and cordoned and overmanaged.<br>  <br>
This was an indie-rock festival, 94 acts on five stages, and the
operation was delicate: a sleek round of commerce for the taste-making
class. Yet Madonna and Kanye West played here this year, and they
encountered even more love than the alternative-rock groups that are at
the heart of this festival. And for all the famous discernment of these
taste makers, one didn't feel much palpable reaction among them.<br>  <br>
Until the final acts — including the prog-rock band Tool, the moody
electronic pop group Depeche Mode and the French dance-music duo Daft
Punk — offered an appropriate moment to loosen up and shout in the dark
a little, the participants gamely absorbed and contextualized.<br>  <br>
This is not an audience that wears T-shirts of its favorite band or
beer. Two hours east of Los Angeles, in the golf-resort desert
lowlands, the festival started off six years ago with a crowd that knew
what it was traveling there for. Now it has inevitably become larger
and more mainstream, but the audience is still largely mid-20's, white,
upper middle class, educated: prize ponies for advertisers, who must
tread lightly around them.<br>  <br> Coachella crowds are leisure
mavens used to exercising choice, and they favor small designers, like
Junker and NaCo, rather than Nike logos or keepsakes from old rock
concerts. But exercising prudent choice is not the same thing as
declaring love. Coachella is not a rock festival for communal bliss: it
can feel almost like a trade show, filled with informed and fairly
dispassionate consumers sampling a band, checking it off a list, moving
on.<br>  <br> Often this was a peculiarly tepid response to brilliant
shows. Several bands, including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Duke Spirit,
Animal Collective, Cat Power and Deerhoof, gave it everything they had,
each staging remarkable, potentially career-changing performances. The
sense of informed caution was everywhere but onstage.<br>    <img style="width: 405px; height: 270px;" src="http://cdn-17.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users10/aviron3/default/Coachella_2006--large-msg-114653102149-2.jpg" align="right" hspace="11"><br>
What is a Coachella band, then? A band that has just reconvened, for
one thing, or wants to give a teaser of a forthcoming tour. The
original lineup of the Smiths was said to have been courted by the
festival but turned down a $5 million offer to reunite. Instead, on
Sunday, Tool, a band that hasn't toured in four years, devoted about a
quarter of its set to songs from its new album, "10000 Days," with a
stage show involving enormous sound and enigmatic, ponderous bad-dream
films on the giant video screens. (Its brooding, riff-heavy music upped
the festival's low testosterone quotient.)<br>  <br>Madonna previewed
her summer tour, which starts in earnest at the end of May, with a
45-minute set of mostly recent songs from "Confessions on a Dance
Floor"; she had a Les Paul strapped to her body, a phalanx of dancers,
and a live backing band to play letter-perfect late disco. Being a
Madonna show, geared toward the visual language of fashion magazines,
it was reified on delivery, full of blocked and posed freeze-frame
moments. She gave some decent action, however, by cursing at someone in
the front row for spilling water on her stage, and mopping the spill
herself.<br>  <br> Madonna was in line with another characteristic of
Coachella bands: she is a clinical analyst of music from the 1970's and
80's. The Magic Numbers, My Morning Jacket, Bloc Party, Eagles of Death
Metal, the Zutons, the Duke Spirit: they all carry deep marks of music
from a long time ago. Kanye West, in his Saturday afternoon show, was
no different. After performing his hit "Gold Digger," with its old Ray
Charles sample, he played old-school D.J., giving the crowd a snippet
of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," then Michael Jackson's "Rock With
You."<br>  <br> "I'm going to play you one of my favorite songs," he
then said. "I swear it's not a joke." It was "Take on Me," by Ah-Ha,
one of the most fey radio hits of the 80's. Mr. West did a New Wave
dance around the stage, looking as serious as he said he was, and the
crowd — which may have been wondering what an emissary of true-blue pop
culture was doing on its turf — appreciated the perfection of the
counterintuitive cheesiness.<br>  <br> Mr. West used a string section
to boost his live sound, and he wasn't alone. Sigur Ros used strings
and brass in its dusk-hour set of rock songs fit for cathedrals,
hovering for long stretches in the middle ground between crescendo and
decrescendo. Gnarls Barkley, a new collaboration between the singer
Cee-Lo and the producer Danger Mouse that treads the line between
misfit indie-rock and freaky R&amp;B, used samplers, a band and backup
singers, with everyone dressed as a character from "The Wizard of Oz."
And Chan Marshall performed songs from the new Cat Power album, "The
Greatest," with a slick band full of Memphis studio musicians.<br>  <br>
For a singer who has conditioned her audiences to shaggy, discontinuous
rambling, this was a glaring act of professionalism. Ms. Marshall
warmed to the role, pulling her hair back from her face, smiling,
keeping the show brisk. At the set's middle, she went back to her
strange old ways for a minute: she gave the band a break, sang with a
cracking voice and some rudimentary guitar chords, and covered her face
with her hair.<br>  <br> Animal Collective played a set of
well-practiced, neatly arranged freaking out, using electronic sound
samples, processed guitar and lots of wild, elastic, almost ecstatic
singing: working under the afternoon's dry heat, the band seemed to be
expelling demons and worked against the coziness and knowingness of the
crowd, the I'll-blog-about-you-blogging-about-me energy. And Karen O of
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs won the prize for most sincere response, looking
genuinely moved and energized by the sight of a crowd that she said was
the biggest she had ever played to.<br>  <br> Moving her long limbs
slowly and imposingly, giggling and crooning and screaming maniacally,
she was trying to feel something, and finally made the crowd feel
something too. In the ballad "Maps," when she carefully sang the line
"They don't love you like I love you," many women in the crowd turned
to the men they were with and mouthed the lyric, making it theirs.<br>  <br>  <br>
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		  		  	<category>coachella</category>
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	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-05-02T17:44:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[Coachella Day #2 - in pictures]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20517/</link>
	      <description><![CDATA[
Madonna, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Matisyahu, and so many more rocked the desert at Coachella that we figured you might like to see some of the best pics of Sunday instead of hearing me blather on about how great they were.<br><br>But ps they were great!<br>    
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	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-05-01T10:35:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[Coachella Day #1 - Kanye West, Wolfmother, Depeche Mode, etc]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20510/</link>
	      <description><![CDATA[
    <b>remind me never to stop coming to coachella</b>, its beautiful here. not just because of the obvious but because of the feeling the vibe the come from.<br><br>people  have traveled from all over the world to be here and i took video of  them that i will share with you when i get back to hollywood. theyve  come from canada and texas and ny and even san diego.<br><br>they didnt  come to get laid, or paid, or because theres so much going on in indio,  or even because the biggest band in america is here, they came for  music of all kinds, they came for music from all over, they came to  dance and to hear something you dont hear all the time - the near  future.<br><br>kanye west today took the main stage fashionably late to  a crowd of probably twenty five thousand. he pranced around and  freestyled with a live band behind him including a string section who  stood and played along with nearly every song. he doesnt do whole  numbers, just the best parts of each of his many hits. the crowd ate it  up and totally fell for him when he had his dj play a-ha's "take me on"  as he danced like a stiff 80s white guy. he mocked but it was all in  good fun because he had introduced the mtv classic as one of his  favorite songs. no kidding.<br><br><img style="width: 339px; height: 451px;" src="http://cdn-15.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users10/tony/default/hi_ladies--large-msg-114644073263-2.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="11"><br>earlier wolfmother filled the mojave  tent with fans who screamed their name and clapped a good five minutes  before they were even scheduled to take the stage. america was ready  and it wanted the sabbath-styled three peice led by a lead guitar  playing singer with an afro and a gibson sg. the contrast of 70s devil  music with the peaceful row of palm trees and rose colored mountains  behind the stage was shocking.<br><br>but nothing was more shocking  than running into janes addiction singer perry farrell in the vip area.  all day i was telling people that i was from the coachella blog, which  i sorta was, since all the pictures that me and the rest of buzznet are  taking are ending up in the coachella community which features the  blog. plus if you say hey this is for the coachella community it might  give people the wrong idea that its going to an old folks home. blog  they understand. and perry smiled and went on rapping to his lady  friend.<br><br>common was good, franz ferdinand wasnt bad, but ladytron  was super good, and cat power - omg that woman is incredibly beautiful.  tv on the radio was great, lady sovereign (pictured, checking out my  beer) rocked the house, and because i listen to my long time readers i  even checked out lyrics born who were playing about 50 yards from our  tent. not bad chokey.<br><br>depeche mode played us out as we had a  long walk to our car. from reports of those who stayed they were pretty  good but had a very odd setlist. and then everyone ran over to daft  punk on the other side of the fairgrounds and people are telling me  that more people were there than at kanye or depeche. over 30,000  people. all dancing. all rocking.<br><br>who were the worst - she wants revenge. <br><br>i was told that atmosphere was also very good.<br><br>all i know is i had a killer time and i will be there first thing tomorrow, because i too love music.<br><br>one  of the best sounds you hear at coachella are crowds clapping and  cheering in approval. if you lay it out there people will eat it up. if  you mail it in, these people will notice and walk away to someone who's  bringing it. these arent people who came there to get drunk and puke,  these are people who are withstanding 93+ degree heat, expensive  hotels, two dollar waters - and you must drink many through the day -  and not-cheap tickets.<br><br>dozens of people were waiting outside at  the begining of the day looking to buy your ticket, and just as many  were waiting outside near the end of the concert trying to get in to  see depeche or daft punk.<br><br>i ate a chicken on the stick from a  thai stand, and a spicy hot sausage from a bbq pit. and i had fried  rice. four beers, a double captain morgans, and about 7 waters. <br><br>its  239am and i should get to sleep but im trying to figure out how i can  get close to see madonna tomorrow. and metric. and the yeah yeah yeahs.  only problem is the yeah yeah yeahs play and as soon as theyre done  madonna goes on stage clear across the other side. so if you want to  get close for madonna you have to only see a few songs of the yeahs.  which is probably what lots of people will do, but theres a very strong  possibility that karen o will be the best performer of the entire show.<br><br>and theres a good possibility that madonna will be rusty, stiff, predictable, and overhyped.<br><br>developing...        
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		  		  	<category>coachella2006</category>
		  		  	<category>daft punk</category>
		  		  	<category>depeche mode</category>
		  		  	<category>kanye west</category>
		  		  	<category>wolf mother</category>
		  		  <category>Buzznet</category>
	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-04-29T23:52:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[We have arrived at Coachella!]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20515/</link>
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<b>it takes 90 minutes to get from la to palm springs</b> but then it takes another half hour to get to indio where coachella is. <br><br>we  got to our little tent and set up and got a ride to the area where the  bands would be and where goldenvoice is, and we got to meet the artists  who are decorating the dressing rooms. each band gets a different peice  of art. very cool. <br><br>then marc noticed all these paul frank  bicycles that were locked up. above them was a little sign that said  "you must sign out if you are going to use a bike." so marc asked where  can i sign out two bikes. and they gave us bikes and we biked around  over to where the campers were camping out.<br><br>the camping area  doesnt allow any booze but there was a huge drinking area where you  could buy beers. that area also had food areas and two different places  to take showers. at only 6pm a surprisingly large number of the 12,000  who bought tickets to camp were there.<br><br>we met the dude running  the security of the camping area. this is his second year there. he  does the warped tour. the cops camp right on the edge of the place next  to the entrance and exit, so its safe. and there was a huge inflatable  movie screen that they were going to play movies on tonight. including  the new coachella dvd which woudl probably psyche me up to see right  before i went to sleep under the stars of indio.<br><br>then we found  ourselves at the goldenvoice aeg bbq dinner. we ate with the aeg guy  who was about to go to new orleans for jazz fest. he was very cool and  his wife and daughter knew tons about music. we ate chicken fish and  steak as depeche mode warmed up down the hill. allegedly last night  tool went through seven songs during their sound check to an audience  of about 15 as the sun set. <br><br>alot of people are here to see Tool.<br><br>did i miss the boat on Tool?<br><br>it was about 93 degrees today but it cooled down nicely. <br><br>we're  staying at marcs uncle's winter house about rancho mirage. the pool is  very nice and the hot tub is warming up as we speak. if im going to  retire one day i believe i will buy a house with a natural warm  springs. i know of one in santa barbara. i think i'll have to start  saving up for that shit.<br><br>when sun went down the lights of  coachella were lit and it was beautiful. gorgous lighting on the palm  trees. spotlights shooting up in the sky forming a canopie of a half  dozen arching rays of blue over the crowd below.<br><br>met a man who confided some personal details with us regarding one kanye west which i chose not to believe.<br><br>currently  we're waiting for the rest of our party to arrive. our three content  editors who are driving from hollywood where they attended the secret  afi show.<br><br>its 148am and im exhausted. ive loaded pics and videos for your ass.    
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		  		  	<category>coachella2006</category>
		  		  <category>Buzznet</category>
	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-04-29T01:50:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[LA peeps, check out Gnarls Barkley tonight at the Roxy for freeeeeee]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20092/</link>
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first come first served but shhhhh its a secret<br><br> Gnarls Barkley is DJ Danger Mouse who is probably best known for mixing the Beatles "White Album"&nbsp; with Jay-Z's Black album making the Grey Album. He went on to produce the Gorillaz latest cd Demon Days which made their label cringe since they own the rights to the White Album and were super pissed at him for the unauthorized (and illegal) Grey Album.But millions of records sold probably chilled them out. <br><br>Cee-Lo is a Grammy nominated singer and rapper who has appeared on hits from the Black Eyed Peas, Trick Daddy, and Santana among others, and he wrote and produced the Pussycat Dolls' mega-smash "Don't Cha".<br><br>So it's no surprise that the collaboration of Danger Mouse and Cee-Loo has created a #1 hit in the UK, their first single "Crazy". But what's really special about it is its the first single ever to reach #1 over there based on download sales alone.<br><br>We live in good times.<br><br><img src="http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/4/5/4/orig-12454.jpg" border="0"><br><br>    
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		  		  	<category>cee-lo</category>
		  		  	<category>danger mouse</category>
		  		  	<category>free</category>
		  		  	<category>gnarls barkley</category>
		  		  	<category>myspace</category>
		  		  	<category>roxy</category>
		  		  <category>Buzznet</category>
	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-04-28T02:45:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About No Doubt's BFF Matt Costa]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/20041/</link>
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Just a couple of years ago Matt Costa was just another prettyboy stumming an acoustic guitar on a southern California beach.<br>  <br>  Now he's finding himself on a #1 soundtrack, supporting his own record,  and on tour with Jack Johnson. And of course playing Coachella.<br>  <br>  How did it happen? As he was hustling his demo tape, a copy ended up in  the hands of No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont who contacted Costa and the  two began playing together to work on a better demo. The demo turned  into an EP that Dumont and Costa distributed. But way before Matt was  traveling europe and asia with Johnson, he was playing the second stage  during the No Doubt / Blink 182 tour.<br>  <br>  One of my exgirlfriends is obsessed with him. So I asked her to deliver  me a quick bulletpoint list of things that you probably wont see next  year in Rolling Stone where he's on track to grace its cover.<br>  <br>  01. he used to cover the beatles "norweigen wood"<br>  <br>  02. he told a much gorier version of the shattering-his-leg-skateboarding story to my friends &amp; i back in july 2004<br>  <br>03. sometimes tom dumont from no doubt can be seen &amp; heard playing onstage with him<br><br>04. he makes me think of the color green<br><br>05. he has a song called "sweet rose" which makes me happy because rose is my middle name<br><br>06. one of his songs was featured on the curious george soundtrack<br><br>07. he also plays piano<br><br>08. he is equally good live or recorded<br><br>09. he's really into the clothing brand rvca<br><br>10. he drew a pirate hat &amp; patch over the picture of himself in my cd<br><br>11. i think he's excited about his recent success but slightly uncomfortable with it.<br><br>12. i first met him at the viper room, where he chased me on my way out to have me join his mailing list<br><br>13. i can think of at least 10 people i have converted into matt fans<br><br>14. his initals are MAC.<br><br>15. he keeps a fortune from a cookie in his wallet<br>  <br>  <br>    <br>      
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		  		  	<category>no doubt</category>
		  		  	<category>tom dumont</category>
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	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-04-27T13:44:00Z</dc:date>
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	      <title><![CDATA[Kanye West Added to the Saturday Line-Up]]></title>
	      <link>http://tony.buzznet.com/user/journal/19985/</link>
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      Sunday had sold out, and despite Depeche Mode headlining Saturday in a region (Southern California) where they have no problems selling tickets, Goldenvoice yesterday pulled a suprise out of their bag of tricks announcing Grammy award winner Kanye West to it's opening day show.<br><br>Appearing at 5:45p, the only losers of this news seem to be My Morning Jacket who will have a tough time drawing a crowd versus the man with last year's top-selling single "Golddigger" and most controversial statement - that the President of the United States didn't care about Black folk.<br><br>For your planning needs, here are the official times of each performance -<br><br>Saturday:<br><img src="http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/3/8/5/orig-12385.jpg" border="0"><br><br>Sunday:<br><img src="http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/3/8/6/orig-12386.jpg" border="0"><br><br>now that we have the times, heres where i plan on being:<br><br>Saturday - The Like, Hybrid, Lady Sovereign, Wolfmother, CYHASY, Kanye West, TV On the Radio, Sigur Ros, the beer tent, Eagles of Death Metal for half the set, Cat Power, Depeche Mode, The Rakes<br><br>Sunday - Giant Drag, Mates of State, The Magic Numbers, Metric, Matisyahu, Bloc Party, Gnarls Barkley, Seu Jorge, Madonna, Massive Attack, The Go Team, the men's room, Art Brut<br><br>what does your lineup look like?<br><b>tag:</b>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/kanye" rel="tag">kanye</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/kanye%20west" rel="tag">kanye west</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/coachella" rel="tag">coachella</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/kayne%20kayne%20west" rel="tag">kayne,</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/kayne%20kayne%20west" rel="tag">kayne west</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/madonna" rel="tag">madonna</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/depeche%20mode" rel="tag">depeche mode</a>          &nbsp; <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/coachella%20schedule" rel="tag">coachella schedule</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/coachella2006" rel="tag">coachella 2006</a>
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		  		  	<category>coachella</category>
		  		  	<category>kanye west</category>
		  		  	<category>madonna</category>
		  		  <category>Buzznet</category>
	      <dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
	      <dc:date>2006-04-27T02:29:00Z</dc:date>
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