Coachella 2010: Lineup Announced

Posted on | January 19, 2010 | No Comments

The 11th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival lineup was unveiled today and
it’s a doozy folks!

You got big ass names like Jay-Z, Faith No More, Muse, Gorillaz, Pavement
and Thom Yorke and his “Eraser” band he put together last fall for his
solo performances.

On the oldies front, a very 80’s heavy lineup of old schoolers like Echo &
The Bunnymen, Grace Jones (where the hell did they dig her up from I wonder … ),
Public Image Limited, Devo, Gary Numan and a very cool relic from the 60’s …
Sly & The Family Stone.

In a lineup like this, you can’t forget your Brooklyn bands: Grizzly Bear,
Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, MGMT and Dirty Projectors.

All these fine artists (130+ in all) will endure the hot, sweaty Southern California
sun @ the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California the weekend of April 16-18, 2010.

If I wasn’t already spending all my dough on South By Southwest, I would totally hit
that.

3 day passes will set you back 269 bones.

They shall go onsale this Friday, January 22 @ 10am.

* Ticketmaster link *

Here’s the complete, insanely good lineup:

Friday, April 16th

Aeroplane
Alana Grace
As Tall As Lions
Baroness
Benny Benassi
Calle 13
Céu
deadmau5
Deer Tick
DJ Lance Rock
Echo & the Bunnymen
Erol Alkan
Fever Ray
Grace Jones
Grizzly Bear
Hockey
Iglu & Hartly
Jay-Z
Jets Overhead
Kate Miller-Heidke
La Roux
LCD Soundsystem
Little Dragon
Lucero
Pablo Hassan
Passion Pit
P.O.S.
Proxy
Public Image Limited
Ra Ra Riot
She & Him
Sleigh Bells
The Avett Brothers
The Cribs
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Specials
The Whitest Boy Alive
Them Crooked Vultures
Vampire Weekend
Wale
Wolfgang Gartner
Yeasayer

Saturday, April 17th

2 many DJ’s
Aterciopelados
Band of Skulls
Bassnectar
Beach House
Camera Obscura
Coheed and Cambria
Corinne Bailey Rae
Craze
David Guetta
DEVO
Dirty Projectors
Dirty South
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Faith No More
Flying Lotus
Frank Turner
Frightened Rabbit
GIRLS
Gossip
Hot Chip
John Waters
Kaskade
Klever
Les Claypool
Major Lazer
Mew
MGMT
Muse
Old Crow Medicine Show
Porcupine Tree
Portugal. The Man
Pretty Lights
RX Bandits
Shooter Jennings
Sia
Steel Train
The Almighty Defenders
The Dead Weather
The Raveonettes
The Temper Trap
The xx
Tiësto
Tokyo Police Club
White Rabbits
Z-Trip
Zoé

Sunday, April 18th

B.o.B.
Babasónicos
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Club 75
De La Soul
Deerhunter
Delphic
Florence & The Machine
Gary Numan
Gil Scott-Heron
Gorillaz
Hadouken!
Infected Mushroom
Julian Casablancas
Kevin Devine
King Khan & the Shrines
Little Boots
Local Natives
Matt & Kim
Mayer Hawthorne
Miike Snow
MUTEMATH
One eskimO
Orbital
Owen Pallett
PAPARAZZI
Pavement
Phoenix
Plastikman
Rusko
Sly & The Family Stone
Spoon
Sunny Day Real Estate
Talvin Singh
The Big Pink
The Glitch Mob
The Middle East
The Soft Pack
Thom Yorke
Yann Tiersen
Yo La Tengo

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Canadian Screenings Of Blur’s New Documentary For 1 Night Only

Posted on | January 13, 2010 | No Comments

The highlight of last year’s Glastonbury music festival was the very
much talked about Blur reunion. All 4 members (Damon Albarn – Singer/
Guitar, Alex James – Bass, Dave Rowntree – Drums and Graham Coxon – Guitar,
who came back into the fold after leaving the band in 2002) was a raging success.
A few more summer festival gigs followed and Blur was done for once again.

This was all captured on film in the new documentary, “No Distance Left to Run”
directed by Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace, shot throughout the band’s 2009
rehearsals and the following summer tour, the film finds the four members for
the first time in nine years.

From an IMDB review of a preview screening:

“It gives an exceedingly honest accounts of their feelings towards each other,
their emotions, their ambitions, the stories behind the songs / albums, their
personal lives, the split-up and the reunion … all interlaced with great gig
footage and behind the scenes “never seen before” footage that really draws you
into the inner circle of the make-up of the band.”

The documentary will have it’s world premiere in London tomorrow night but
for us Canucks, for one night only, we will get a chance to see it on the big
screen aswell.

That night is January 21st @ 7pm on Cineplex movie theatre screens in a few selected cities.

Those cities are:

Calgary : Scotiabank Theatre Chinook

Edmonton : Cineplex Odeon South Edmonton Common

Hamilton : Silvercity Hamilton Mountain Cinemas

London : Silvercity London Cinemas

Montreal : Cinema Banque Scotia

Toronto : Silvercity Fairview Mall Cinemas and Scotiabank Theatre

Vancouver : Scotiabank Theatre

Winnipeg : Silvercity Polo Park Cinemas

Tickets goes on sale this Friday, January 15 trough the Cineplex
and Movietickets websites.

A 2-DVD set will be released in the U.K. February 15.

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SXSW: 2010 Preliminary Schedule Released

Posted on | January 8, 2010 | No Comments

And by preliminary I mean a few more bands added to the list of 400+ bands /
artists already unveiled last month.

Days, times and venues are still to be determined. You can however, Sign up to
create your own personal schedule.

Scanning trough this new list, very happy to learn that Autolux will be back this
year. Also, psyched to see A Sunny Day On Glasgow, Nicole Atkins,
Butterfly Explosion, The Depreciation Guild, Adamn Franklin, The Invisible, Japandroids, Minipop, We Were Promised Jetpacks … this year’s edition looking to be pretty kick ass.

The full schedule should be out mid-February.

Go HERE to create your SXSW account and HERE (Click on Wed 3/17) to check out the new list.

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AGDFA’s 2009 Year-End Comp Mix

Posted on | January 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Happy New Year.

First great music news of said new year? Soundgarden reunion
is a go! How f’ing crazy is that?

I guess Chris Cornell finally came to his senses. Maybe his
shitty Timbaland produced R&B album, which bombed horribly,
was the last straw or this is just a reunion tour cash grab.

We shall see.

I’m pretty pumped tough. I finally get to cross them off my
“bands I need to see live before I kick it” list.

Now, on to my 2009 year-end songs compilation. I put together
one of these every year to share it among my circle of friends.
As do they. It’s a good way to find out music we might have
missed out on during the year.

For this perticular compilation, I came up with 30 songs.
Most were featured on the podcast, some will be in the
near future.

It’s a big file (200mb‘s worth) the link can be found below.

AGDFA’s 2009 Year-End Comp Mix

01. We Were Promised Jetpacks – “It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning”
02. Manchester Orchestra – “The Only One”
03. Superdrag – “Everything’ll Be Made Alright”
04. Biffy Clyro – “Whorses”
05. Brakes – “Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)”
06. Taking Back Sunday – “Sink Into Me”
07. Dinosaur Jr. – “I Want You To Know”
08. No Age – “You’re A Target”
09. Japandroids – “Heart Sweats”
10. Doves – “The Outsiders”
11. Gliss – “Morning Light”
12. The Warlocks – “The Midnight Sun”
13. Two Hours Traffic – “Noisemaker”
14. I Was King – “Norman Bleik”
15. Telekinesis – “Tokyo”
16. The Veils – “The Letter”
17. Tanya Morgan – “Bang & Boogie”
18. Bot’Ox – “Blue Steel”
19. Miike Snow – “Cult Logic”
20. Charlotte Gainsbourg – “IRM”
21. Bear In Heaven – “Lovesick Teenagers”
22. Animal Collective – “My Girls”
23. Broadcast – “In Here The World Begins”
24. St. Vincent – “Actor Out Of Work”
25. The Bird And The Bee – “What’s In The Middle”
26. Cortney Tidwell – “Son And Moon”
27. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – “For The Rest Of Your Life”
28. Grizzly Bear – “Fine For Now”
29. Radiohead – “These Are My Twisted Words”
30. Dead Man’s Bones – “Dead Hearts”

http://www.zshare.net/download/706147729c4b118f/

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AGDFA 109

Posted on | December 30, 2009 | No Comments

57 mins : 59 secs | 39.0 mb

Manchester Orchestra “Shake It Out” ( favorite gentlemen )
Mean Everything To Nothing [ amazon ]
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We Were Promised Jetpacks “It’s Thunder And It’s Lighting” (fatcat)
These Four Walls [ amazon ]
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Doves “The Greatest Denier” ( heavenly records )
Kingdom Of Rust [ amazon ]
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Superdrag “Filter Out The Air” ( thirty tigers records )
Industry Giants [ amazon ]
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Tanya Morgan “She’s Gone (aka Without You)” ( interdependent )
Brooklynati [ amazon ]
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Blakroc “Why Can’t I Forget Him” ( blakroc project )
Blakroc [ amazon ]
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Bear In Heaven “Lovesick Teenagers” ( hometapes )
Beast Rest Forth Mouth [ amazon ]
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The Bird And The Bee “What’s In The Middle” ( blue note records )
Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future [ amazon ]
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Marie-Pierre Arthur “Droit Devant” ( bonsound records )
Marie-Pierre Arthur [ amazon ]
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Bat For Lashes “Two Planets” ( parlophone )
Two Suns [ amazon ]
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Seasick Steve “The Banjo Song” & “Dark” ( atlantic )
Man From Another Time [ amazon ]
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