Coachella Line-up Announced

Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: Lilledeshan Bose | Filed under: Electro, Los Angeles, arena rock, festival, hip hop, hipster, indie rock, jazz, pop, trip hop | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Yeah yeah, so we’ve been busy and neglected Bembang, what with the holidays, moving, trips to Rome and Amsterdam (Brian), Taiwan and the Philippines (Lille), Chicago and Mexico (Araceli). But even from the remotest mountain in Baguio I have time to post the just-announced Coachella lineup. I’m not super excited about the lineup, but Sunday seems doable. See you guys there?

FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

Tickets for COACHELLA go on sale Friday, January 22 at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster locations and www.coachella.com. Three-day weekend passes are $269, plus surcharges.  More details on layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information, can be found at www.coachella.com.


BemChat: Sinatra, the City, Matt, Kim, and Fame.

Posted: July 22nd, 2009 | Author: Brian | Filed under: GChat, indie rock, new york | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Brian: Lille…. a/s/l?

Lilledeshan: oh no [...]  i’m the 3rd wheel

Brian: Lille & I need to do our “city” music pics. A– Sinatra is an excellent NY pick, I just don’t like Sinatra

Araceli: you guys are lagging on the other assignment. there you go again, brian. i think lille has horrid taste in music but i dont tell her

Lilledeshan: Oh

Brian: ouch

Lilledeshan: excuse me, ms. “I hate stereolab and MIA until Pitchfork says its ok”

Brian: BOOYAH!

Lilledeshan: hahaha. oh and um, “I love the Editors”

Araceli: i am speechless..how dare you

Lilledeshan: “Matt and Kim”

Araceli: yeah so i like based on looks…SO WHAT?

Matt & Kim (photo from Get Weird Turn Pro)

Lilledeshan: HAHAHAHAH

Brian: Matt & Kim are an attractive band. they jump around a lot and strip

Araceli: matt is

Lilledeshan: they’re fun to watch

Araceli: kim looks like a lezbot

Brian: delish lezbot\

Lilledeshan: they’re on top of the list in the realm of underachiever indie rock

Araceli: i dont give a fuck…i like music when a cute boy tells me its worth checking out. i dont have time to research myself

Brian: M&K have the trailer music for NBC’s community

Lilledeshan: we should have our photos beside our posts. that way brian can hook readers like araceli into raising our profile

Araceli: no way. oh you wanna be like perez?

Lilledeshan: perez hilton, musical tastemaker

Araceli: i dont want people to know what i look like…my biggest fear is being a recognizable celeb

Brian: ha. you’re fist [sic] problem is BEING a celeb

Lilledeshan: why are you guys still at work? i’m going to do my city post
after i give away this free lou barlow song

Araceli: brian, you think i cant be a celeb?

Brian: oh, you can. But you can worry about being recognized later

Araceli: damn this biy [sic] is out of contorl [sic]. look i cant even spell! thats how angry i am. haha…whateves… lille is the one that wants to be famous

Lilledeshan: ya. i keep getting pre-empted. right before i get REALLY big. some stupid shit happens

Araceli: i gots to go

Lilledeshan: ok bye guys. me too

Brian: alright. laters

Lilledeshan: adios