I was just looking at the Coachella festival jpg lineup announcement, and I felt sort of underwhelmed. So many bands that appeal to a lot of different people. It seems like they are going for a sort of ‘nostalgic’/'ironic’ type of experience this year. Like our chance to re-live the past without leaving behind all of the pleasures of today.
I sorta wonder if ‘music festivals’ are still going to be authentic/fun/organic/exciting experiences. In the latter stages of the 2k0 decade, we saw music festivals morph into huge corporate events. So many mainstreamers showed up at formerly alternative festivals that by the end of the decade, festival curators were catering to maltstream audiences by booking headliners such as Coldplay, the Kings of Leon, and Jack Johnson Bro.
It seems like music festivals aren’t even ‘about the music’ any more. Bottles of water cost $5. Plastic bottles of beer cost $15. Buying band merch costs 500% more than the unit cost of a blank tshirt. Feels like if I wanted to pay to ‘gawk at famous people from afar’, I would get tickets to a professional sports team. Really hope that microfestivals begin to pop up. Secret gatherings of young professional alts + ‘trustafarians’ who are willing to pay top dollar for a unique experience, limiting the amount of entry levs at the music fest.
Wonder if by the end of the decade, we will be dropping off our kids at Hanny Montanny music festivals.
Mind is truly ‘blown’ by the coachella lineup. Part of me wants to say it ’sucks’ and ‘all of those bands are old’, but another part of me just wants to ‘go have fun and listen to some awesome music.’
Which band r u looking forward 2 seeing the most at Coachella 2k10?
Which music festival will u attend in 2k10?
Will u stop going to music festivals this decade because seeing kidz/inauthentic ppl watching the same bands u like can put a bottleneck ur ability to enjoy a band/concert/mp3?
Previous Concert/Show/Festival Coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/06/u-me-and-every-concert-we-attend-how-we-grow-older-with-concerts.html
The Festival Bro
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/05/i-am-the-festivalbro.html
Who do u see when u go 2 music festivals?
Guess it is music festy season again.
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//////////Reply by smith
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
@smith, also, glad for the return of HRO pie charts
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//////////Reply by Y
//////////Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm
@smith,
Almst thought that lineup wz real.
Thanks for the heart all out attack.
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usually i always go to coachie and get high with my bros, but this lineup just blows hard …yet satisfies a part of me.
dunno if im gonna go, feel like the only artist i would go see would be Gary Numan
feel like the rest of the bands are played out
no wavves/neon indian…official end of 2k9
too late to get passes4 sxsw?
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kind of bummed the crash test dummies arent playing :(
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//////////Reply by meow
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
@HJ, ‘cept they are.
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
@meow,
SO THEY ARE!!! was so excited bout gerardo that i skipped right over them :) love him did u ever c pauly shore is dead?
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jay-z is blipster alt
jay
Z!!!!!!!!!
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//////////Reply by telly
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:45 am
@analog, i luv him
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//////////Reply by Y
//////////Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 12:59 pm
@telly,
Tree
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//////////Reply by Y
//////////Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 12:58 pm
@analog,
En.
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Would be nice to see the first Pavement show in ten years, but Coachella has always seemed kinda shitty and definitely not worth flying across the country to go to. Seems like ATP NY is the only festival worth plunking down the cash for.
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cant beleeve marilyn manson got smallest font size in that fake poster info graphic..
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stoked 4 the jars of clay [via recapturing summer bible camp]
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 2:20 pm
@Knobs, but if i can’t swim after forty days and my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves…
‘lift me up yall’ – the jars of clay
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This can’t be fr reals.
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the flyer on here is actually better than the real 2k10 line-up. feels like they could have picked most of the same bands for 2k6. truely sad.
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 2:36 pm
@megadeathfromabove, [via thom yorke solo]
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As a Sydney boy I’ll say that lineup is pretty incredible.
Miss u American music industry…
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//////////Reply by coolidge
//////////Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 2:30 am
@Acid Midget, the SpicDoctors are a ruse perpetrated on all of us all..
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//////////Reply by huaglaggaglaglaghagl
//////////Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 am
@Acid Midget,
As a Brooklyn boy, sorry that your local music sounds like NYC -5yrs
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//////////Reply by Acid Midget
//////////Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 5:20 am
@huaglaggaglaglaghagl, yeah well out of every American state Sydney’s music is probably lagging the most…
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Miss u self-respect.
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that line up is uhhhhhhhhhh a fake right? pretty sure the only mainstreamers there are Jayzzzzz muse and gorillaz
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
@Wallace,
no this totes is reel, wanna go with me?
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Ha. My dad produced the Gin Blossoms and lives across the street from Rob Thomas. Hey maybs I can score some guest passes to the SPIN magazine party at that crazie mansion. Think Dave Grohl is djing.
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//////////Reply by telly
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:46 am
@anon, ur so kewl it hurts me
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i only go to DEMF
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//////////Reply by lainz
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
@chilisfan, oh my goodness. a demf fan. let’s get married.
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@lainz, i will marry everyone at demf ‘10. because i will surely be on drugs.
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//////////Reply by markie
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:47 am
@chilisfan, 313! btw…. <3 ja and jlo
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@markie, THNX 4 THE CONTINUED SUPPORT
michigan alts forever.
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Gonna be pretty awesome to be JPJ back on a huge stage again… Wait, when have I ever seen him on a big stage? Never? Oh, that’s right.
Florence and the Machine, White and Frightened Rabbit(s), Deer Tick (where the shit did they come from?), E. Sharpe, King Khan, Old Crow, Miike and I don’t know… PAVEMENT are those that I’m looking forward to the most.
/something snarky.
//already wearing cargo shorts in anticipation.
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mind over mattress bro
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pumpkin pie > pie chart.
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//////////Reply by markie
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:48 am
@generk witty cmmnt, u rule
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lol @ filter
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hahah that poster is hilarious “Toni Braxton”
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I will be going to the Pitchfork Musical Festival where Arcade Fire will be headlining. They owe it to p4k for starting the rumor that they were a ‘good band’.
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//////////Reply by d00dz
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
@brobro, trollin hard
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Line up looks good enuff to me, can’t wait to convince myself I enjoyed Pvmnt
I must not be alt
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First!
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a few points:
vitamin c and dynamite hack back-to-back = blogworthy.
small font size/billing indicates that celine dion might not be as ‘universally loved’ as many thought she was.
does this Coachie performance explain why paula cole won’t be at nu-lilith-faire-2k10?
expose’, wilson-phillips, and en vogue should form some sort of ’supa-group’ for this festival only.
no scott stapp?
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//////////Reply by dan-onymous
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
@dan-onymous, also can’t wait to see laura branigan perform from the afterlife. might have to wear my best AmAppy.
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Didn’t David Guetta produce that ‘Sexy Bitch’ song? Because I’m down to see him with my sexy bitches.
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ugly kid joe and cherry poppin daddies
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LFO > any band @ coachi 2K10 (no homo)
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personally, im super stoked for Saturday’s super-secret, ’soon-to-be-announced ’subheadliner’: Carles spoken-word (Feat. the blasphemy of unclfstr) [in the 'dome']
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I will prolly go to DROP ACID and smoke HELLA WEED
while me and a couple of close friends totally get into
MGMT. THE ONLY MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE I EVER HAD WAS AT COACHELLA.
LOST MY VIRGINITY AT COACHELLA 1999
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK,
OOPS Not MGMT, BUT THE PASSION PITS.
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Maybe I’ll get a ‘tug’ from Amy Grant.
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The “SHEPARD FAIREY” ad below is perfect.
keut, carles
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fake flyer is fake
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BDO + FMF
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http://www.coachella.com/event/lineup
that’s the real lineup.
It’s good. Verging on spectacular.
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//////////Reply by Z
//////////Posted January 20th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
@Aaron, Spoiler Alert: Aaron spoils it.
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//////////Reply by Sarah Right Now
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 11:42 am
@Aaron, PiL, the Specials, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Devo, and Gary Numan? I think I’ve already been to this festival – THIRTY YEARS AGO.
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This made me really need to poop.
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Add Paula Abdul andnim there
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weird.
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this is the first time hipsterrunoff has made me laugh in a long time… A LONG TIME
very ‘funny’ and ‘insightful’
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LFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is an experiment http://tinyurl.com/n2×74m
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thank you for your share,it sounds a little terrible.
mbt
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wat music festy should i be savin my earnings for?
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That is THE FUNNIEST LINEUP I HAVE EVER SEEN
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I believed it and was hoping my dream of seeing Gloria Estefan live with Carles would come true
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Roxette! Roxette! Roxette! c:
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DC TALK!!!!!!!!!!!
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted January 23rd, 2010 at 1:35 am
@pat robertson, holy shit
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Ace of Base? Aqua? Take That? whir missin dam!
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Wheatus, Dynamite Hack, and Marcy Playground! Can we also include Jamiroquai, Bloodhound Gang and Touch and Go’s “Would You Go To Bed With Me”?
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i stole yr hunnie like i stole yr bike
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omg paris hilton AND hanson
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was really worried with i went to coachella’s website and saw the lineup with passion pit, dirty projies, major lazer, vampy weekend, etc…thanks for providing us with the real lineup, carles! enya 4eva!
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fuckk muzakk festss
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are these am appy ads new
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‘damn’. just gonna become a juggie and attend ‘the gathering’, i think…
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I actually got excited when i saw marky mark.
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lollapalooza is mainstream but usually has alot of relevant bands and alot of alt authentics in a relevant city, where you can be real into shit or enjoy hippy drugs or get stoned and vibe to a jam band or get rowdy with a bunch mainstream bros who came to see the ‘rock’ bands
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//////////Reply by this lil light o min
//////////Posted January 23rd, 2010 at 9:45 pm
@aisforalex,
watchu wanna cookie?
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is it too much for indie ‘rawk’ bands to actually ‘rawk’ these days? are our standards this low that we’d actually want to pay $400 to see some untalented dudes stare at the floor for a while, eagerly awaiting Jay Z so that the porta potty line is astronomically shorter? arent festivals a terrible venue for this type of music? ~deep_question_bro~
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Pretty ‘fired up’ that fine young cannibals and robbie williams are playing. Maybe snow might give me a blowie back stage. that would pretty much rule.
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Wow, and I was extremely impressed with the Coachella lineup. In fact, the only ’selling out’ on the lineup that I saw was in Jay Z. Wonder if hro is selling out tho. Notice the differences in the xmu show. The extra steps, the leap in fundage that must have happened to get that extra effect. And the mobile version of hro, now day-yum. Now just who is selling our here?
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//////////Reply by coachella!1
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 10:10 pm
@McF,
everyone sells out. people read hro to make fun of ‘alt’ culture- that readership includes entrylevelers. also, for the record, tons of bands on the real list are sellouts- the entire lineup is a series of 2k9 buzzbands. hence the fake poster…
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//////////Reply by McF
//////////Posted January 21st, 2010 at 10:39 pm
@coachella!1, yea, I ‘get’ the irony. I don’t think the lineup is bad at all. The real one. Even the discerning altbro would see this show if he could suck the money out of mommy & daddy’s teats.
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this year’s coachella isnt awful- just pretty bad. that said, sometimes crls makes me want to cry for the death of authenticity/2k9.
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hro should host a music festival.
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//////////Reply by kurmi
//////////Posted January 23rd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
@scatcat, hro does host a music festival. y’all missed it.
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//////////Reply by scatcat
//////////Posted January 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 pm
@kurmi, thx
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Thats not the fucking lineup. I dont know where you got that, because it is ungodly awful. there is literally not a single band i would ever see on there. but the actually lineup is pretty good.
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i would def pay $35 bux for a marky mark hypercolor concert tee. and that’s $35 1992 bux = $45 2k10 bux. shooter was one of the best movies of the decade.
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ha, I completely lost it on “featuring MC Scat Kat”
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