What exactly is Coachella Confidential? If you're interested in finding out about some musical acts you may not be familiar with upon taking the trek to Indio, California for three days of music, keep your eye on this blog. Hey, you shelled out $300+ for your tickets, didn't ya? Don't you wanna know about more than just The Strokes and Kanye when you get there?
If you're checking this blog out, you obviously have some interest in the music festival known as Coachella, which takes place the weekend of April 15th to April 17th in Indio, California. Hopefully, you already grabbed tickets because the entire festival is sold out. General admission, camping passes, everything.
To some people, Coachella is "a three day concert in which you stand in overwhelming heat to see bands you have never heard of". To 80,000 ticket buyers as well as countless of hundreds of thousands kicking themselves for missing the boat, its perhaps the greatest gathering of music all year. This year's lineup features a wide range of acts, from the reuniting of The Strokes to Kanye West to Eryka Badu and everything in between.
Until that weekend in mid-April I will be blogging about various musical acts that will be performing at this year's festival as well as helpful links to lead you in the direction of some of their material in case you want to become more familiar. I myself am only supremely familiar with a dozen acts or so this year, so it will be an ultimate challenge to me to find some new stuff I may have not heard before.
As far as my Coachella experience? I have none. I have only attended one music festival, Austin City Limits in 2006, and it will be hard for any festival to top that one. Coachella's 2011 lineup is certainly testing it already. At ACL I saw Ben Harper, Tom Petty, Kings of Leon, The Raconteurs, Nada Surf, G Love and Special Sauce, Phoenix, Cat Power, really an amazing variety of music. Coachella has the variety factor matched, featuring a wide range of hip hop and rap acts alongside some of todays best indie rock.
Until that weekend in mid-April I will be blogging about various musical acts that will be performing at this year's festival as well as helpful links to lead you in the direction of some of their material in case you want to become more familiar. I myself am only supremely familiar with a dozen acts or so this year, so it will be an ultimate challenge to me to find some new stuff I may have not heard before.
As far as my Coachella experience? I have none. I have only attended one music festival, Austin City Limits in 2006, and it will be hard for any festival to top that one. Coachella's 2011 lineup is certainly testing it already. At ACL I saw Ben Harper, Tom Petty, Kings of Leon, The Raconteurs, Nada Surf, G Love and Special Sauce, Phoenix, Cat Power, really an amazing variety of music. Coachella has the variety factor matched, featuring a wide range of hip hop and rap acts alongside some of todays best indie rock.
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