Coachella Coastin: late recap!! pt. 1

SO before I dig into this coachella ish, likes of me to apologize (to whoever it may concern) about how long it took to get this blog ball rolling. There were a few technical difficulties on both of our parts to get this shit started, but anywho....





Your boy was coachillin this year, and it was off THE HOOK. Me and a friend left Thursday night and beat the crowds but you'd be surprised how early those crowds do leave. We roughed it all three days and slept in the car, it was pretty brutal, and my allergies were hell the whole time. I think I still have some of that nasty ass dry desert dirt stuck in my throat. As nice as all of that sounds, to top it off it was over 100 degrees all three days and really cold at night, for some reason? The desert bugs were fucking disgusting, and the car next to ours got broken into, and we watched it happen while we were in our car, haha. At least the coachella folk were entertaining!


One of our lovely parking neighbors decided to make his truck into a hotel. He's completely serious too, and if thats not enough, at night he set up a barbecue and a table with chairs and TIKI LIGHTS! Saturday night I got lost looking for the car and I ran into his car-lounge-area and he cooked me some food and gave me some beer and we talked about Portishead for about a half an hour.......so anyways




One of my favorite performances were [of course] from one of the best talents to come out of Iceland, the freaky folk band Múm, who has just released there fourth album titled "Go go smear the poison ivy" which is noticeably different from most of there previous records. For those who have backed the noisy high vocal experiment band from the start, you'll be glad to hear the band, now seven members strong, ranging from different realms of sound and dipping into different genres, particularly mixing their classic instrumental sound with some up-to-date electronics, but for those of you, most of you, who jumped on the band wagon after Garden State, you'll be disappointed by the lack of "We Have A Map Of The Piano" theme. Speaking of, they did play the anthem, but they were having troubles remembering all the notes to the song. They had a hard time competing with all the noise from the other two tents which were simultaneously echoing a thumping repetitive beat, making it hard for the quiet, sometimes even whispering, performers to operate. They even requested there crowd to be as quiet as possible so that they could play some slower songs. They also played a lot of new stuff, but altogether the performance was astounding, beautiful, and memorable-to me at least.


MP3: Múm - Please Sing My Spring Reverb B.flesichmann Mix (YSI)
MP3: Múm - Guilty Rocks (YSI)