Coachella 2007

[Alex]

Maybe we can hold MouseAdventure at Coachella and the focused intensity of the sun will bore a hole to the center of the earth.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I know a great place to stay...

And, sad to say it booked up yesterday when the dates were announced


And so I booked a room at their sister hotel - swank to be sure, but damn I'll miss that pool...

Then again, it's the music we'll be out there for, hope the line-up is good.

[Not Afraid]

LA Times artivle about Coachella line-up:

Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Björk also top the bill for the three-day music festival.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
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age Against the Machine, the seminal L.A. band that made heavy music into political manifesto, will reunite after a seven-year lull for one show as the headliners at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Sources say Rage, which played the main stage at the first Coachella in 1999, will be joined by other familiar faces for the eighth edition of the festival, which covers three days this year and begins April 27: Red Hot Chili Peppers, which headlined in 2003, are back, as is Björk, who topped the bill in 2002.

Organizers were mum this weekend and it was not clear which day Rage or the other acts were slotted to play; that announcement is expected in the next few days. Other acts expected in the eclectic lineup: Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Manu Chao, the Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Crowded House, Air, Tiësto and Kings of Leon.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, via Ticketmaster. Three-day passes will cost about $250 and there will be a limited number of single-day passes available.

The headliners are not novel, but they are potent. The Peppers are up for their first best album Grammy right now, and Björk remains a mesmerizing figure to fans of avant pop. But in Southern California rock circles, there is very little that could compete with the excitement of a Rage Against the Machine reunion. The quartet's hybrid of funk, rap, metal and leftist ideology was as subtle as a Molotov cocktail; in the 1990s, its aggro-anthems made it the only band that mattered to a fan base that included East L.A. protest kids as well as those in Hollywood punk circles, college dorms and mainstream rock festival mosh pits, where politics were secondary to the group's feral energy.

The band is vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk. Their split came amid rumors of bad blood between De la Rocha and his mates, who went on to work with Chris Cornell in Audioslave. However, Morello and De la Rocha appeared together at a 2005 rally for the urban farmers of a South Los Angeles community garden.

[Prudence]

Am I the only person on the planet who would have been happier if Rage Against the Machine had stayed apart.

I'd go for Willie, though.

[Not Afraid]

Yeah, I don't care much about RATM. Of the bands mentioned, Bjork, Interpol, Sonic Youth and Arcade Fire sound promising though.

[CoasterMatt]

Maybe somebody can toss a molotov cocktail onstage during RATM...

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm not particularly excited yet. Arcade Fire's nice, but an act I've seen there before is a flimsy draw for me. Bjork might be cool but the big names are rarely what draws me in or makes the weekend interesting. Nevermind the 3 day span thing.

I'll have to see the extended list before I can fully gauge my interest.

Oh...Crowded freaking House? Really?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Only one band will get me to Coachella ever, and it would only be for the day the band played: Gogol Bordello. I want to see them. I want to see Eugene.

And I want to have Eugene's punk gypsy baby. For lack of a bull terrier to name, I would name our love child Sputnik Sweetheart.

[Not Afraid]

Holy CRAP! I just downloaded your husband's music, EH. Holy crap!!!!!

[Prudence]

Wow! That's the band that the Pandora website keeps recommending to me.