Coachella 2019

Awe

This Four Tet set is groovy

If anyone had any doubt about what a massive star BE is, this should put it to rest. The crowd is singing along loudly to every single line.

Lol Vince Staples just came on as a guest but his mic was off. Yikes.

I had no doubt. And I like her stuff. She's great! But I'm afraid I don't quite get what it is about her that inspires such enthusiasm and devotion in such large numbers. (But that's OK, I am not exactly the target market, either.)

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Tuning in now, couldn't tear myself away from Four Tet.

In reality we should be watching Solange about now

😒

Looking forward to this Tame Impala set. Still can't wait they are heading, let alone on Saturday night.

Wait should have believe

Makes me to want to do drugs. Not that I'm not messed up enough right now

The music is pretty good. A mix of a lot of things I have heard before.

They won't top Elephant

Making music to take drugs to

Rumor is Ariana will be joined tonite by Nicki Minaj and 4/5 of NSYNC (no JT)

He was the most talented one!

I'm looking forward to this Unknown Mortal Orchestra set

Tho it's all about Ariana Grande tonight.

I'm still very excited about the CHVRCHES as well tonight

Anyone else watching this Blood Orange set?

How was UMO?

where the hell is Ariana?

finally on!

the livestream keeps futzing for me

"R.E.M." sounds great

jam after jam after jam

the NSync thing was cute, glad they presented it that way as opposed to, idk, some monumental event

oh snap

I thought she had retired "Bang Bang"... I still love it so much! It's great to see Ari & Nicki perform together

awww yeahhh

oh noes

oh god, Mase can't hear and is rapping out of time

fuckin' lvoe this song tho

Nikki couldn't hear either, Bang Bang was a mess, but a fun mess

"NASA" presentation is beautiful... can't wait to see this show next month.

why not have Nikki come back out for The Light Is Coming?

Maybe she was supposed to, but said f that due to the sound issues? Apparently she couldn’t hear in either earpiece.

I wondered at first why Childish Gambino didn’t come out for “Break Your Heart...” — they’ve been talking about that — but my guess is they’ll do it the 2nd weekend, when Diddy/Ma$e aren’t there.

A loud helicopter woke me up around 3:30am, and I was convinced it was one of those high-rollers flying back in from Coachella (maybe landing at Van Nuys)... sort of shook my fist, lol... now I don’t know why I was so convinced (but I’d still bank on that hypothesis).

https://scontent-qro1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/57059823_642662069481116_7609824373607759872_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_eui2=AeGmcVS2tGoDn6rssYzss_OmR8W0xjLr0Lun2d3cA3C7wyopuuc3fNpX5YRu0wZDzpXIpidLtkaBfgzlxnRLcQj9-Nl5lYcA9C9NtQv27waAmw&_nc_oc=AQlMg6ov_1N0MdJC8iMFbd6prXjzfa4aaJ6--yIQ-btVCjDzz8MgwcL69raZ-0FZpPE&_nc_ht=scontent-qro1-1.xx&oh=f5b398eb3bdd2e3cb1fe094e6f1b0200&oe=5D31D848

I know a guy who’s gone for 8 years straight... when I chatted with him about it last week (as he was getting ready for this year), he didn’t seem to really even know who was playing... I guess ppl just buy tix for the “experience”?

at least that way you’re not going to get annoyed by clashes

Also, the LA Times devotes a massive amount of coverage to the festival, as if it’s generally accessible to Angelenos and relevant to their lives: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/coachella/

(Don’t read the review of Ariana’s set in there, btw, it’s fuckin’ dumb)

This was an incredible weekend, maybe the best in all the years I've gone. Thinking about going back for the second weekend.

It’s almost a fact by now that almost everyone at Coachella are there fueled by social media and the music is just background noise. If you’re in there solely for the music there’s 10 other festivals nearby where you can see the same artists for 1/4 of the cost.

well, there obviously aren't, because of radius clauses. or on the other hand, it's a year since the festival and the new lineup of Soulwax haven't played the US outside of California.

Perfume is onn

That was emotional. Thank you Perfume for saving the world yet again.

https://www.newsweek.com/coachella-herpes-outbreak-std-increase-patients-1405857

now you can take a little peace of Chella home with you

HerpAlert confirmed they’ve seen a wild increase in prescriptions to treat the STD, even as early as the first days of the festival.

Oops, I read that as HerpAlpert