The 11 Best Bands at Coachella…each day

Incredible line-up this year.  Impossible to do one list for the whole festival…so here’s three lists! One for each day.  These are by no means the only good bands playing, just the ones that I’m most excited about.  And Saturday is easily the most packed day.

The 11 Best Bands at Coachella on Friday:

  1. Outkast
  2. Girl Talk
  3. Broken Bells
  4. The Replacements
  5. HAIM
  6. A$AP Ferg
  7. Ellie Goulding
  8. Waxahatchee
  9. Bryan Ferry
  10. Grouplove
  11. Zedd

The 11 Best Bands at Coachella on Saturday:

  1. Foster The People
  2. Empire Of The Sun
  3. Cage The Elephant
  4. Nas
  5. Muse
  6. Pet Shop Boys
  7. Skrillex
  8. MGMT
  9. CHVRCHES
  10. Blood Orange
  11. The Head and The Heart

The 11 Best Bands at Coachella on Sunday:

  1. Arcade Fire
  2. Neutral Milk Hotel
  3. Beck
  4. Superchunk
  5. Lana Del Rey
  6. STRFKR
  7. Calvin Harris
  8. Disclosure
  9. Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  10. Chance The Rapper
  11. Bad Manners

 

 

 

The 11 Best Songs By The Sleepy Jackson

This NBA Finals (and Playoffs for that matter) haven’t been as compelling as originally billed…until tonight.  Game 6 was the game every NBA fan has been waiting for, getting better and better every minute as it unfolded before our eyes in spectacular fashion.  It had big comebacks, last second shots, prime-time dunks, overtime thrills, and “too many to count” clutch fade-away three pointers (shoes optional).  Ray Allen was huge but LeBron having to overcome his own roadblocks may have been bigger.  Miami is LeBron’s team.  Though at one time, he was Cleveland’s great hope…history will view him as a Heat.  I know a lot Cleveland fans still feel burned…that he should have stayed…but had he stayed, would he ever evolved?  Miami struggled the first couple years with LeBron.  It seemed the great experiment had failed.  But it was that humility that made him mature.  Sometimes we need to let go of our past to enter our future.

Luke Steele left behind cult darling The Sleepy Jackson for the poptastic Empire of the Sun.  Was it the right move?  Only the future knows.

The 11 Best Songs By The Sleepy Jackson:

  1. Rain Falls For Wind (Lovers)
  2. I Understand What You Want But I Just Don’t Agree (Personality)
  3. Don’t Stay (Personality)
  4. Acid In My Heart (Lovers)
  5. Come To This (Lovers)
  6. Devil Was In My Yard (Personality)
  7. Tell The Girls That I’m Not Hanging Out (Lovers)
  8. This Day (Lovers) 
  9. Play A Little Bit For Love (Personality)
  10. Good Dancers (The Sleepy Jackson)
  11. Sunglass Man (Miniskirt EP)

Buy Empire of the Sun’s new album, Ice On The Dune…now!!