Guide to Coachella Must-See's

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=4313

To determine the best performers, however, we read at least 10 concert reviews of each band—in newspapers, websites, blogs and on one bathroom wall. Then we tempered it with our own personal experience. From what we can tell, these are the most raved about live bands at Coachella 2006. At least according to the low- or un-paid people who care to write about such things.

SATURDAY'S TOP 10

Depeche Mode—Coachella may be famous for curating the new, but they also have a healthy respect for the productively old. The British mope-rockers released Playing the Angel last October, their first album in four years, and critics and fans dropped jaw. Lead single "Precious," a song Martin Gore wrote about his children being caught in the middle of his recent divorce, lit up KROQ's request lines. This headlining gig should cap their mini-renaissance. Live buzz: Might overdo it with new tunes but will play "Personal Jesus" and other depression anthems.

Eagles of Death Metal—Jessie "The Devil" Hughes was born, or mutated by the desert heat, to be a rock 'n' roll frontman. His tools: a buzz cut, aviator sunglasses, rippling built-at-home muscles, a 1970s cop-show mustache and Castro District swagger. If Josh Homme were smart, he'd shelve Queens of the Stone Age for a few years and help Hughes make EODM gods. Live buzz: Possibly the best live rock band that doesn't speak Swedish (see Page 25 for more).

My Morning Jacket—This Kentucky foursome lives but doesn't die by the haunting, high-pitched wallow of vocalist Jim James. His vocals are transcendent—like Neil Young or Isaac Brock howling into the Grand Canyon to trip out on the echo. That said, the band's epic space-country doesn't just stand idle. Live buzz: Terms like "religious experience" and "holyshitgoddamn!" have been used.

LOL..Yep..pretty much.  A friend of mine who caught them on TV and missed, out of his own ignorance, a chance to see them live with us, said "HFS!"  Which is very high praise as he's a highly accomplished musician who's been in a band that actually got national exposure and airplay, but he got to be quite jaded and cynical about the whole business, and new bands in general.  Until, that is, MMJ appeared.

[EC]

man.  that's cool, but why're they still calling them a foursome?  haven't they been five for like, six years now?

grr.

they also forgot to mention "hell balls".  i've heard that one a fair amount.  ;)

[Angry Ewok]

They claim to have researched extensively, but then don't even get the number of band members right?

It doesn't matter if they say the best things in the world about MMJ, at this point - they've no credibility with me.

[ratsprayer]

i think those writers should be put to death.  that's flat out ridiculous mucking about with the facts like that.



:-/

[primushead]

Not just the writers, ratsprayer, but their immediate families, too.  We have to set an example now of how important it is to get the details right.  If we don't have details, what have we got left?

[ratsprayer]

anyone going to coachella with the notion MMJ is a foursome, well they have to exterminated, too.

[primushead]

Zeig heil, mein Furher! ;)

[ali]

the itunes mmj bio describes them as being a "louisville kentucky foursome" as well.... shameful  ;)

[tomEisenbraun]

isaac brock?

in what manner?