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My Coachella: The Cool Kids
April 28, 2008 5:23 AM ET| Rolling Stone
One of the Cool Kids MCs, Mikey Rocks, was wielding a giant blue supersoaker and threatening to douse anyone in the VIP area "who's trying to look too cool" when Rock Daily caught up to him Sunday afternoon outside his trailer in the artist area at Coachella. Before the water carnage began, we asked him some questions about the group's desert gig: Dream Coachella headliners: Headlining on the far left stage I want Nas. And then in the middle left stage, A Tribe Called Quest. Middle... | More »
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My Coachella: Does It Offend You, Yeah?
April 27, 2008 8:47 PM ET| Rolling Stone
James Rushent and Dan Coop of Does It Offend You, Yeah? have a solution for bands missing that key piece of percussion that you always seem to need more of: "When there's not a cowbell, use a bottle," Rushent says. Beer bottles weren't as plentiful at Coachella as they'd hoped, though. "You can't take drinks out of here into the other VIP bit and you can't get drinks in the VIP bit and bring them backstage," Coop lamented. "In England, if you've got a can of beer... | More »
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My Coachella: Love and Rockets
April 27, 2008 6:22 PM ET| Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna
So, David J. of Love and Rockets — Coachella, Lollapalooza, and European festivals, what about a new album? "There are no plans for any record, but we were approached a couple of weeks ago by a big name producer who wanted to produce us and offered us free studio time," he said, sitting the shade backstage. "There' no clock. It's something that's on the backburner at the moment." For now, he's living in the moment of Coachella and trying to keep cool. Coolest Thing ... | More »
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My Coachella: Kate Nash
April 27, 2008 5:21 PM ET| Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna
"This is my first Coachella and I'm surprised it's even hotter than Big Day Out in Australia!," Kate Nash told us backstage by her trailer Saturday afternoon. "It's so L.A. here, but you gotta love it even if it's not your thing. It's just funny." Still glowing from her Saturday afternoon show, she had one thing on her mind: Prince. If I Had Five Minutes with Prince: "I'd want to tell him that I want to write a song together. I'd want to talk about emotions... | More »
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Coachella Day Two: Prince Dominates With Greatest Hits, Guests, Radiohead and Beatles Covers
April 27, 2008 8:17 AM ET| Rolling Stone
At 11:11 p.m., Prince seemingly materialized out of nowhere, took his place at the center of Coachella's main stage, and spoke: "Coachella, I am here. ... Coachella, where are you?" Promising to rock the party only if he could choose the music, he added, "You're in the coolest place on Earth right now," and then set out to prove it. After a few horn blasts, Prince -- decked out in a flowing white jumpsuit with glittery trim and playing a Telecaster with a leopard-print pick guard &... | More »
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Coachella Day Two: Portishead, Death Cab, M.I.A., Malkmus, Kraftwerk
April 27, 2008 7:00 AM ET| Rolling Stone
Saturday's late-afternoon primetime sets began just before 5 p.m. at the Outdoor Theatre, where Stephen Malkmus was holding court with the Jicks. After joking about the environmental crisis, he half-heartedly crooned Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun," adding, "I would have played that if I was over there," gesturing towards the slightly larger Main Stage. After doodling one of his many lengthy solos during "Elmo Demo" (from the band's new Real Emotional Trash), Malkmus, outfitted ... | More »
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My Coachella: MGMT
April 27, 2008 6:32 AM ET| Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna
Moments after MGMT's Saturday show in the Mojave tent, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden told us that they might need to"learn how to play for a large crowd." Why is that? "We're just not ones for stage banter," said VanWyngarden. "But this crowd loves that. We said 'fuck yeah' once and they went crazy. And when our sound guy shouted out the word alcohol at sound check, that got the crowd going too. So, maybe we should do more of that." Rock Daily made the band chat a... | More »
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Coachella Day Two: Mark Ronson, Cold War Kids, Hot Chip, Kate Nash and More
April 27, 2008 6:00 AM ET| Rolling Stone
"Things could be much worse," sang Cold War Kids frontman Nathan Willett as a sizable hometown California crowd assembled in front of the main stage in the height of the Saturday heat, and he meant it. The band finished up "We Used to Vacation" with guitarist Jonnie Russell slapping a cymbal with a yellow maraca, tested out some new material and performed their stellar cover of "Hang Me Up to Dry," with Willett breaking away from the mike to pound away at his keyboard. Meanwhile at the Gobi ... | More »
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My Coachella: The Black Lips
April 26, 2008 3:06 PM ET| Steve Appleford
The Black Lips faced some heavy competition for attention on Coachella's opening night, with Jack Johnson on the Main Stage and Fatboy Slim in a nearby dance tent, but the garage band wasn't worried. "You either want to dance, you want to chill, or you want to rock," says guitarist Cole Alexander, whose band is known for wild eruptions of noise, nudity and the sharing of fluids. "I think people are going to want to rock." Guitarist Ian Saint Pe adds: "If you want to see someone make... | More »
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Coachella Day One: Jack Johnson, The Raconteurs, The Verve
April 26, 2008 7:19 AM ET| Rolling Stone
As the afternoon of Coachella Day One wore on, the sounds of electric guitars getting jacked into high gear called everyone's attention back to the main stage, where the Raconteurs were settling in. "I haven't seen the sun in weeks," goes the first line of "The Saboteurs" (though nobody in the heat-baked crowd could truly make that claim), and Jack White, decked out in all black, moseyed over to Brendan Benson as the two guitarists faced off and worked at their instruments. "How are... | More »
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