Hitsville » The best show of the year?

Posted at: Monday, April 28, 2008, 6:42 am

Idolator, tracking the performances at Coachella yesterday, raved about Prince … Portishead and Kraftwerk … the Breeders … the Verve…

Didn’t I see this show in 1995? I certainly could have, except for Kraftwerk … who didn’t do their big reunion tour until 1998.

I can’t believe they didn’t get Stone Temple Pilots and Dinosaur Jr.!

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maura April 28th, 2008 10:08 am

to me, this says a lot about the somewhat grim long-term prognosis for the festival circuit (who’s going to headline these shows in 10 years? what band that came up during this decade will have that drawing power/long-bred affection). i also really liked tegan & sara, santogold, black mountain, stars, metric… but will any of them cross over to the sort of stardom that could headline a 50,000-person venue for a day? given the way music culture is these days i’m not so sure.

(i did see a few duds along the way. black kids, ugh. get back to me when you don’t sound like a hot hot heat tribute band.)
hitsville April 28th, 2008 12:47 pm

I think that’s a great point… there’s a way in which people just go nuts barking up a certain tree—whether it’s “Law & Order” or “Idol” or festivals springing up in every county—with too little concern about what’s gonna happen the year after the audience suddenly wears of the sameness of what once was a novelty.

This hit me particularly hard because I’m roosting in Phoenix for a while and some—not all, but some—of the names bandied about this year (Police, Kraftwerk, Petty, Prince, R. Waters…) were people I listened to here back in high school.
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