April 21, 2009

Now that most of the music fans that attended last weekend’s Coachella Festival are back in the real world there have been over a thousand videos of the festival uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately, most of them are 30 seconds long and sound horrible, but we did find about 100 watchable clips including a number of AT&T Music webcast captures. In what’s become a Hidden Track tradition, here’s a list of the best Coachella clips on YouTube…

Airborne Toxic Event: Gasoline, Sometime Around Midnight,

Antony and the Johnsons: Kiss My Name,

Atmosphere: Shrapnel, God Loves Ugly,

Beirut: Nantes, My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles, Cocek / Scenic World,

Conor Oberst: Cape Canaveral,

Dr. Dog: The Ark,

Etienne De Crecy: Snake Cube, Hypercube,

Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal / Ragged Wood, English House,

Franz Ferdinand: Dark of the Matinee, This Fire, Playing No You Girls, Ulysses, Take Me Out,

Ghostland Observatory: Sad Sad City,

Glass Candy: Digital Versicolor, Beatific, Miss Broadway,

READ ON for over 100 good videos from Coachella 2009…

I’m going to start this week’s edition off by quoting a little bit of a 2004 Chuck Klosterman article from Spin Magazine where he makes a list of ten bands that are “accurately rated”. You can also find this in his book Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas.

3. Blue Öyster Cult: The BÖC song everyone pays attention to is the suicide anthem “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” However, that song is stupid and doesn’t use enough cowbell. The BÖC song almost no one pays attention to is the pro-monster plod-athon “Godzilla,” and that song is spine- crushingly great. So, in the final analysis, Blue Öyster Cult is accurately rated—by accident. This happens on occasion; look at Scottie Pippen.

Granted, that was written before the days of Guitar Hero and I do believe the song has been made much more popular, at least among the youth, due to that video game sensation. Checking in on last week’s Dupree’s Diamond Blues edition of Cover Wars, The Waybacks have emerged victorious.

The Contestants:

Give Us The Money Lebowski: Leading off this week we’ve got out our friends GUTML who will be hosting the second annual Awesometown next month on May 8th and 9th (turns out these guys do roll on Shabbas). The stage schedule was released yesterday, so start planning your course of attack now. Appropriately, this clip is from last year’s Awesometown. Be on the lookout for some Karate Kid quotes. Source: 5-10-2008
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READ ON for three more entries in this week’s Cover Wars…

If this is what is going on at Coachella every year, I’m glad I’ve never been… Leave a comment below with a caption and if your entry is the best

In the never ending parade of lineup announcements, this morning belongs to Lollapalooza. Joining Jane’s Addiction at the top of this year’s bill are Tool, the Beastie Boys and Depeche Mode – who are making their only festival appearance of the summer at Lollapalooza.

Also scheduled to perform at Grant Park sometime between August 7 and August 9 are Gomez, Lou Reed, Kings of Leon and The Decemberists. Ben Harper and Relentless 7 are making a strong bid to win the Jack Johnson Award for most festival appearances in one summer, so it’s no surprise they made the cut. READ ON for the full Lollapalooza 2009 lineup…