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Bonnaroo Organizers Pre-Ticket Sales Rhymes Both Annoy and Entertain

Posted on 03/05/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Promoters for major music festivals realize that beating the others to the punch as far as announcing lineup and ticket sale dates could mean the difference in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many fest heads need to plan early which festivals they want to go to, so the sooner a lineup is announced, the better the odds (if the lineup is good) are in favor of that festival – like Coachella, partly because it’s so early, usually April.

Therefore, fest promoters rush to get the lineup out with the hopes that many people will plan to go to their festival rather than a competing festival. Unless you are geographically close to many festivals – say if you live in the northeast or mid-Atlantic – or happen to have a lot of time and money, many festival lovers have to pick and choose. So, getting out a killer lineup means the difference between a profitable fest and a very profitable festival.

In what was a bizarre, and quite frankly annoying effort to some (entertaining to some less) people, Bonnaroo organizers teased fans with a list of riddles and rhythms about the Bonnaroo 2008 lineup.

Listen to past Bonnaroo Festival performances live from archive.org.

From the thread about this on Inforoo:

Clues on Radio Roo.
« Thread Started on Feb 1, 2008, 2:14pm »

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I posted this on another thread but I think it deserves its own. The DJ just came on and said

Clue #1 “For all you lineup lookers….here is a clue: There is more than one Manchester.”

Manchester Orchestra
Man Man
Oasis
Verve

Clue #2 20 minutes later she said ” Memphis isnt Albany”
Changed to “Memphis ain’t Illbany”

“There is more than one Memphis. This is not a clue just an observation.”

BB King
Beastie Boys

Clue #3 “Clouds taste this way”

Metallica
Beastie Boys

Clue #4 “Some Herrings are red, Jimmy”

Widespread Panic
Led Zep
Metallica

Clue #5 “Hard Substance, Soft Substance”

Iron and Wine
Mars Volta
Carbon Silicon

Clue #6 “Janis Joplin’s preserves will be served”

Pearl Jam

Clue #7 “Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac”

Dread Zep
Whigs

Clue #8 “it’s not sour, what is sowed in the earth”

Plant and Krauss
Sigur Ros

“Three certain birds, add one”

Counting Crows
Black Crowes maybe with Page
All the Crows including Old Crow
Andrew Bird
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
The Band plus Dylan (use to be the Hawks)

Clue #9 “look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around.”

Beirut
Gogol Bordelo
JUI
Daft Punk
Russian Circles

Clue 10 Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough.

Ani DiFranco
REM lyric from Bad Day

Clue 11 (Feb 4th Monday at 12:20)
“Message board chatter? Yes it does matter. We hear your song requests. So Listen High Listen Low Don’t Look Too Hard This Is New Radio Bonnaroo”

1:30 Low of the Hour Daft Punk
2:00 High Hour Ween
2:30 Drive By Truckers
Nadasurf

Clue 12 Charlies imaginary band will not be playing and what he wrote on his hand the last few things he was not saying.

Oasis not Playing ?
Paul McCartney

Clue 13 The Walrus ain’t Paul
Sean Lennon
Ringo

Clue 14 alternative language clue
Sufjan Stevens

Clue 15 What rhymes with orange

Nothing
NADASURF

Clue 16 Arizona in Manchester

Tom Petty
Cheryl Crowe
Alicia Keys
Counting Crows
Ludacris

Clue 17

What is in the dessert isn’t.

Oasis
Any of the super bowl bands

Clue 18 “The Chairman of the board, after the Birthday Party”

Cake
Nick Cave

« Last Edit: Feb 5, 2008, 2:00pm by zoey

The following is the first list of rhymes (without guesses) that was posted on the Bonnaroo official message boards (and started the flack):

1. “There is more than one Manchester”

2. “Memphis isn’t Albany”

3. “Clouds taste this way”

4. “Some Herrings are red, Jimmy”

5. “Hard Substance, Soft Substance”

6. “Janis Joplin’s reserves will be preserved”

7. “Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac”

8. “It’s not sour, what is sowed in the earth”

9. “Three certain birds, add one”

10. “Look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around.”

11. “Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough.”

Bonnaroo Tries To Make Lineup Announcement Seem More Exciting Through The Power Of Slightly Infuriating Riddles

Tip to Bonnaroo promoters: Check out some marketing 101 tips for next year and do the shrooms at the festival, not while your planning and promoting it. : p

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Watch STS9, Gov’t Mule, REM, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill and Others at Langerado Festival

Posted on 03/05/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Indie music fans in south Florida are already arriving in south Florida for this weekend’s Langerado Festival.

The 2008 Langerado Festival has a hot lineup for a relatively little-known music fest (compared to Lollapalooza, Coachella and Bonnaroo). During the next few days, IRC will highlight some of the headlining aritsts for Langerado 2008, including links and embeds of videos from the 08 festival performances as soon as they are available.

Today’s featured Langerado artist is Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). While they haven’t released a new album in nearly three years (Artifact, 2005), the band has toured so much in recent years that fresh material doesn’t seem to matter.

STS9, the dub-happy jam band from Georgia that has had a loyal following for a decade now, but only really broke through with Artifact (and relentless concerts and fest appearances) will take the stage on Friday, March 7, 2008 from 1 am to 4am (I double-checked it and that’s what the schedule says).

The website iClips.net will stream the STS9 set and many other sets from all four days of the festival according to its website. So, you can bet there will be updates about that as more information and times come in. If you can’t make it to Langerado, you might be able to get a lot closer with the continued advances in Internet technology!

In the meantime, here’s a YouTube clip of STS9 performing “Aimlessly” at Langerado 2007:

Here’s a popular video of STS9’s David Phipps using the DIY 8×16 monome controller of “Be Nice”. (monome.org).

MP3 – Sound Tribe Sector 9 – Be Nice

For anyone who was, or was not, at Red Rocks 2007 in Colorado, here’s a great video performance that represents the band at its best performing a six-minute jam session.

The band also played at ACL Fest 2007 (in searing heat and dripping humidity) – here’s a short, but excellent quality video of the band jamming at ACL 07 (not sure what the tune is though; some of STS9 music is improvised or spin-offs of songs in their catalog – which is surprisingly small).

Stay tuned to IRC for artist profiles, YouTube video performances from Langerado 2008, MP3s, blog reviews, photo galleries and more.

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Noise Pop Festival 08 Wrapping Up This Weekend with a Bang

Posted on 02/29/200812/18/2019 by flytrap

The Noise Pop Festival 2008 in San Francisco is coming to a close this weekend after an amazingly successful run (Feb. 26-March 3, 2008).

Some of the most anticipated shows of Noise Pop are happening this weekend, including British Sea Power, The Mountain Goats, Vampire Weekend, Cursive, Gutter Twins, Holy Fuck, Tilly and the Wall and She & Him – all of which are sold out and nearly impossible to find tickets for (check Craigslist – there are plenty of RE: Wanted ticket pleas, hardly any for sale though).

In fact tickets for shows that originally sold for $15-$30 are now selling (where you can find them) for $75 and up. Check out the Noise Pop lineup, locations and show times for the remainder of the fest.

Here’s a video clip from the Magnetic Fields playing “California Girls” last night – 2/28/08 – at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Notice the audience laugh at the band’s dissing them, well at least the girls. The show has been sold out for weeks.

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Bamboozle Left Festival 08 Headliners My Chemical Romance, All American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World and Saves The Day

Posted on 02/29/200812/18/2019 by indierocker

The Bamboozle Left Festival will take place during the weekend of April 5-6, 2008 in Irvine, California. The Bam Left lineup is pretty much set, but of course new artists can be pulled or added at the last minute.

Some of the most popular indie rock and pop artists set to perform at BLF include (the following links will take you to each artist and band profiles on LastFM – see IRC’s page on LastFM):

My Chemical Romance, The All-American Rejects, Billy Talent, Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Paramore, Finch, Reel Big Fish, Saves the Day, Anti-Flag, Armor for Sleep, The Starting Line, MxPx, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bouncing Souls and nearly two dozen others.

If you are interested in more information about the Bamboozle Left Festival, including dates, locations and venues, check out the official Bamboozle Left Festival website.

There is also the Bamboozle Roadshow 2008 touring the U.S. and headlining groups like Saves the Day [ tickets ], Armor for Sleep [ tickets ], Set Your Goals and Metro Station.

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Bamboozle Festival 2008 Lineups, Tickets and the U.S. Roadshow

Posted on 02/28/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

In the chatter and noise about Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lolla and other major festivals, it’s easy for the ‘other fests’ of 2008 to get lost in the crowd.

Hopefully not taking their name too seriously, promoters of the Bamboozle Festival, both east and west, have finalized the lineups, dates and ticket sales information for each festival.

Jimmy Eat World, Panic at the Disco, Alesana, MXPX, Motion City Soundtrack, Phantom Planet, Bret Michaels, Academy Is…, Red Jumpsuit Apparatuas and nearly two dozen other indie artists and groups playing during the two-day Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey, May 3-4, 2008.

Here’s the lineup, ticket details and videos from Bamboozle East Festival 2007. (Bamboozle West post coming soon)

MP3s from Bamboozle East Performers:

Jimmy Eat World – Praise a Chorus (mp3)

Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me (mp3)

Phantom Planet – The Happy Ending (mp3)

Here’s Phantom Planet’s music video for “California”:

Bamboozle has a Roadshow tour traveling around the continental United States as well, but the lineup is no where close to the festivals.

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Still No Lineup for Lollapalooza 2008; Wait Game and Rumors Might Kill Ticket Sales

Posted on 02/26/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

For months now, festival and music lovers, bloggers, musicians and the mainstream media have speculated, floated rumors, predicted and even made false ‘confirmations’ about 2008’s Lollapalooza’s lineup. Rumored artists include Black Lips, Bloc Party and MGMT.

Bottom line: There has not been one artist or group confirmed for the Chicago-based festival in 2008 by Lollapalooza organizers.

Apparently, part of the reason for the delay is to keep ‘the buzz’ going to help sell tickets (when they go on sale) and to try to drown out all the chatter surrounding many other music festivals this year, two of which are new festivals for 2008: Rothbury (more on that later) and Coachella East (aka APW).

Radiohead will headline two of the three nights of Coachella East, so that should be amazing. The fest is being held Aug. 8-10, 2008 at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.

It is very possible that Lolla organizers’ delay in announcing a lineup could ultimately kill ticket sales, so if the delay is to keep fest goers in suspense to sell more tickets, that strategy may just end up doing the opposite.

Closer Look at Lolla

In 2004, the Lollapalooza music festival tour was canceled due to low ticket sales. Since then, the fest has stopped touring and landed in Chicago for an annual festival.

While Lollapalooza 2007 was considered a come-back of sorts, organizers of the event must be nervous about ticket sales for 2008. What they seem to fail to realize is that the sooner they announce the lineup and ticket sales, music lovers around the country – and world – can start making their plans to go.

On the other hand, and this is not hypothesizing, waiting much longer than the end of February to announce the lineup – or even a headliner tease – means that many people will either make plans to go to another music festival (some already have), or just forget it altogether (others have already done this).

Nevertheless, the rumors and speculation continue (when the lineup is announced, it will be published here first).

You can also check out more about the Lolla fest 08 and sign up to get the latest news, plus artist profiles, tour schedules, MP3s, articles and more from artists and groups playing at music festivals in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Europe and around the world.

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Vineyard Fest Was Coachella’d for All Points West Festival

Posted on 02/22/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

The organizers of Coachella, Goldenvoice/AEG Live, announced a few weeks ago the formation of a new east coast major music festival, dubbed “Coachella East”.

The festival, now officially the All Points West Festival (Aug. 8-10), just released the lineup – including Radiohead , Underworld, Cat Power, Jack Johnson, Black Kids, CSS, Animal Collective (shown below), Andrew Bird, Metric, The Go! Team, Rodrigo Y Gabriel, The New Pornographers, Kings of Leon and many others.

Some festival fans in the New York City metro area (which includes the venue location of Jersey City – just across the river from lower Manhattan – with amazing views of the city and Statue of Liberty) are calling a coup of the historically annual Vineyard Festival.

Vineyard has been cancelled because it was Coachella’d from Liberty State Park (photo; bottom left) until 2009.

From a money-making and fan-demand perspective, it only makes sense to create a “Coachella East” based on the enormous success of the famous west coast, three-day outdoor camping Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the desert of Indio, California (read the latest on Coachella lineup, tickets and breaking news), which has attracted some of the biggest names of indie and mainstream rock for the past half decade.

Apparently, the announcement of ‘Coachella East’ by Goldenvoice/AEG Live effectively forced Vineyard promoters Festival Republic and C3 Productions (who also produce Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Glastonbury and others) to cancel the Vineyard Music Festival for 2008.

Perhaps more telling is the fact that ‘Coachella East’ was in the works for months now, and through the online rumor mill was scheduled a couple of months ago – deliberately or not – on the very same dates as Vineyard, August 8 to August 10.

Among many speculators, Rolling Stone magazine recently reported – incorrectly – the dates of the Vineyard Music Festival, or ‘Coachella East’ would be August 10-12, 2008.

“We had to get our egos in check and say, ‘Let’s do [sic] the smart decision, get off these dates and go for an isolated (date) so we can build this thing without having to look over our shoulders,”‘ C3 partner Charles Attal said.

“We don’t want to be compared to all the other festivals and who’s playing where. We want to build this thing right, organically from the ground up.”

Organically? Ticket prices for a single day pass are $89 a pop. Three-day passes sell at a hefty $258, plus Ticketmaster’s ridiculous fees (but they are the sole distributor of the tickets; Coachella organizers, along with Goldenvoice/AEG Live, must have a deal with Ticketmaster on both coasts it appears.

While the tickets don’t go on sale until Feb. 29 at noon EST, the following fees have been added to tickets for Coachella West (not including the $55 camping fee):

Convenience charge: $22.20
Building facility charge: $12.00

(These do not include whatever other fees, such as delivery and such, are added when tickets go on sale. Note: Opt for the $2.50 online tickets to print when you want).

Flashback: Thank goodness to Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam (photo; bottom, right) for taking a stand against Ticketmaster’s exorbitant fees and services charges more than a decade ago, even though they knew it would mean losing millions of dollars. Now that’s putting your money where your mouth is.

Check out this rare 2003 RS interview in which Vedder talks for the first time in a long time about the Ticketmaster fight that left some fans bitter and caused others to entrench deeper with the band).

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Radiohead Will Headline Two Nights at All Points West Fest, "Coachella East"

Posted on 02/22/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

For the first time in major music festival history, one band – the iconic Radiohead – will headline two of the three nights of the All Points West Festival, commonly referred to as APW and “Coachella East”.

Get the full story (released on 2/21), plus the full lineup, ticket sale dates and prices, transportation and the whole skinny at a new site ironically called CoachellaEast.com.

+ Radiohead – House of Cards

+ Radiohead – Videotape (Mojib Remix)

Radiohead 2008 Tour Dates:

05-05 West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre
05-06 Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
05-08 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
05-09 Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
05-11 Bristow, VA – Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge
05-14 St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
05-17 Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
05-18 Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center
06-06 Dublin, Ireland – Malahide
06-07 Dublin, Ireland – Malahide
06-09 Paris, France – Bercy
06-10 Paris, France – Bercy
06-12 Barcelona, Spain – Parc del Fòrum
06-14 Nimes, France – Arenes
06-15 Nimes, France – Arenes
06-17 Milan, Italy – Civica Arena
06-18 Milan, Italy – Civica Arena
06-20 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany – Southside Festival
06-22 Scheeßel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
06-24 London, England – Victoria Park
06-25 London, England – Victoria Park
06-27 Glasgow, Scotland – Glasgow Green
06-29 Manchester, England – Lancashire County Cricket Club
07-01 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Westerpark
07-03 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07-04-05 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter Festival
07-06 Arras, France – Main Square Festival
07-08 Berlin, Germany – Wuhlheide

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Lollapalooza 2008: Lineup Rumors Abound, First Indications from Lolla Boards and Six Months Ago

Posted on 02/19/200812/18/2019 by Kate Stevens

Over the next couple of days, IRC will publish complete updates on the latest news for 2008 music festivals, including Bonnaroo, SXSW, Coachella, Rothbury, Bamboozle, Sziget, Glastonbury, Austin City Limits, Virgin Festival and many others.

Next month, a comprehensive guide will be published and feature all of 2008’s indie-relevant music festivals including the latest news, ticket info, line-ups, artist profiles, discussions, photos, MP3s and videos of past performances.

Lollapalooza (August 1-3, 2008) – While ticket sale dates and the line-up for Lollapalooza 2008 have yet to be announced (as of 2/26/08), rumors are flying everywhere about which artists and groups might be playing at this year’s Lolllapalooza.

If the lineup is anything like last year’s (see flashback to 07 below), there will be more lolla than looza.

The following artists are rumored to be set for Lollapalooza, according to the official website’s board moderator sixtimes:

The rumor mill seems to be favoring the following artists as headliners: The Smashing Pumpkins (not a SP reunion, so it’s really Billy Corgan and the band), Radiohead (who wouldn’t love that, especially since In Rainbows is crazy popular in and of itself with a whole new generation), Wilco, Bjork, The National, Tom Petty and The Police.

Rumor mongering is dangerous, so let’s just say that as soon as the line-up is announced, it will be published here (got folks in the mix but they are staying mum right now).

In the meantime, let’s warp back to six months go for a memory fest of 2007’s killer lineup:

Headlining Lollapalooza 2007 was an eclectic mix of popular alternative, indie, rock, mainstream and electronica artists like Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Modest Mouse, Ben Harper, Muse, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Patti Smith, The Roots, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, The Black Keys, Kings of Leon and others.

The headliners did not come at the expense of ‘second-bill’ artists and groups Tokyo Police Club, !!!, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, Ted Leo and Pharmacists, Snow Patrol, CSS, Annuals, Blue October and many other indie artists who rocked Grant Park.

Where is Lollapalooza? The annual event is held in Chicago’s Grant Park on the shores Lake Michigan right off the Miracle Mile. Here’s a map of last year’s festival grounds.

Last year, festival goers endured blistering heat and suffocating humidity (as did festival attendees at the Austin City Limits fest in Austin).

Some folks may not realize this, but it’s a fact that festival organizers deliberately schedule such outdoor summer events during the ‘doggiest’ days of summer. Why? They sell more drinks at ridiculous prices.

Now, in fairness to event organizers, there are tremendous costs to put events like popular music festivals together. Still, don’t shed a tear for the organizers, corporate sponsors and vendors, they are raking in money.

The other point is that most music festivals are attended by students – whether college age or under – who obviously have the most free time during the summer months.

Bonnaroo Announces Line-up of Artists and Ticket Sale Date

Posted on 02/07/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

There is so much music festival news coming out right now that it’s like trying to watch three horses races at once.

To some people it may seem early in the year to be planning for summer rock festivals, but just the opposite is true. This is the time.

In the case of the south’s popular Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, plenty of music fest fans have been holding their breath waiting for ticket and artist line-up news. Bonnaroo 2008 has been set to take place June 12-15.

Breaking now: Bonnaroo tickets are set to go on sale Feb. 19, 2008 at 10 a.m. EST and the first list of confirmed artists has just been issued.

Someone should write a song to this next block of text (the challenge is on) and put it on YouTube or wherever.

Anyways, artists from the official line-up that are linked are artists that have been featured on this blog and those in bold print are artists I like and plan to write about soon. Regretably, I must admit, like any music blogger, there are probably excellent artists in the line-up that I have yet to discover.

Artists listed in bold are artists and groups that will be featured in the weeks to come.

Official Bonnaroo Fest line-up (no times yet)

Pearl Jam, Metallica, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Phil Lesh & Friends, My Morning Jacket, The Allman Brothers Band, The Raconteurs, Willie Nelson, Death Cab for Cutie, B.B. King, Sigur Rós , Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road, Ben Folds, O.A.R., The Bluegrass Allstars Feat. Luke Bulla, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton, M.I.A., Umphrey’s McGee, Iron & Wine, Yonder Mountain String Band, Swell Season, Talib Kweli, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi’s Soul Stew Revival, Gogol Bordello, Broken Social Scene (pictured at right), Robert Randolph’s Revival, Rilo Kiley, Mastodon, Lupe Fiasco, Against Me!, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Pat Green, Ozomatli, Tegan & Sara

Solomon Burke, Drive-By Truckers, !!!, The Avett Brothers, Israel Vibration, Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck, Larry Campbell, Jackie Greene, Aimee Mann, Ladytron, The Fiery Furnaces, Orchestra Baobab, Ghostland Observatory, José González, Dark Star Orchestra, Minus the Bear, Donavon Frankenreiter, State Radio, Battles, Jakob Dylan, Two Gallants, The Sword, Vampire Weekend, Little Feat, Nicole Atkins, The Felice Brothers, Mason Jennings, MGMT, The Lee Boys, Black Kids, Serena Ryder, Steel Train, Grupo Fantasma, Back Door Slam.

The folks at Bonnaroo have yet to release the schedule, times and stages for where and when the artists will be playing, but stay tuned and the details will be posted as soon as they are available.

During the next few months, there will be more profiles published of artists appearing at various festivals around the world in 2008.

The following MP3s are from three indie outfits scheduled to place this year:

Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Iron & Wine – Boy With A Coin

Ladytron – AMTV

IRC MP3 Policy: All MP3s are for evaluation and to help promote the artists. MP3s featured on this site are the property of their owner. If any musicians or labels want a particular MP3 removed, please contact me and it will be done immediately.

The Low-Down on Coachella: Tickets, Maps and Where To Sleep

Posted on 02/06/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

When single-day tickets for Coachella 2008 went on sale two weeks ago, they were gone in a matter of hours.

But there’s hope, if you’re willing to throw it down.

For folks only interested in single-day tickets, competitive bidding is underway on eBay, and for sale on Craigslist. Of course you can expect people to hold out in posting for sale their tickets until closer to the festival opening day (April 24).

Even in a recession, people will decide to go at the last minute and shell out for the so-called ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience of Coachella (even though logic says it’ll be around for years to come).

If you simply cannot find, or do not want to pay the inflated prices for single tickets, I strongly recommend getting a three-day pass now before they sell out. It is a pisser that the three-day passes are a ridiculous $269 each.

Nevertheless, once they are gone for the official price, they will be much more valuable in the next couple of months.

Also, when you are buying the three-day pass from the official website, you have the option to add the flat fee of $55 for a three-day camp site, if they are still available. Campsites, because they are reasonably priced (but have many restrictions and security), also usually sell out quickly.

MP3s of Artists Performing at Coachella 2008:

Portishead – “Kissing The Day“

My Morning Jacket – “Strangulation”

Animal Collective – “Bees”

A big part for this is because the average hotel room in the area, if you can find one at this point goes for almost $300 a night right now. As the scalpers do, hotels will take advantage of ‘last minuters’ and block out a set of rooms so that in the days leading up to the opening of the festival they can sell them for twice as much.

Here’s Coachella 2008’s complete line-up of confirmed artists. Check out the line-up, dates and poster.

Head’s up: Rooms in the Indio area are almost gone. See map of town with accommodations listed and a map of the region.

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Coachella 2008 Official Line-Up Includes Roger Waters, Portishead, DCFC, Shout Out Louds, My Morning Jacket

Posted on 01/22/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Organizers of the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have released the official line-up for this year’s event, slated for April 25-27, 2008.

Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters, Kraftwerk, Portishead, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Love and Rockets, Spiritulalized, Hot Chip, Madness and Fatboy Slim are just some of the headliners for the three-day music fest and art show. Nothing that great really.

Here is the full line-up in its entirety:

April 25 – Jack Johnson, the Verve, the Raconteurs, the Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, the Swell Season, the National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Pendulum, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobies Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, the John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, the Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang and Lucky I Am.

April 26 – Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacuba, Sasha & Digweed, Rilo Kiley, M.I.A., Dwight Yoakam (this year’s token country act, also appearing at Stagecoach the following weekend), Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars on Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noise, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, the Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty!, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJs, Surkin, Para One and Orgasmic, James Zabiela, Sebastian, Kavinsky, Dredg, the Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Eletric Touch and Uffie.

April 27 – Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, the Streets, Metric, Simian Mobile Disco, the Horrors, Danny Tenaglia, Booka Shade, Murs, Dimitri from Paris, Autolux, the Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson (in a spoken-word appearance), Les Savy Fav, the Cool Kids, Sons and Daughters, Sia, Black Kids, Black Mountain, the Annuals, Kid Sister with A-Trak, Man Man, Duffy, I’m From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmaus, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Plasticenes and Brett Dennen.