Coachella has announced their lineup for 2010...it's ridiculous.....just to name a few: Them Crooked Vultures, MGMT, Deer Tick, Jay-Z, Pavement, Phoenix...and the list goes on. It looks like Coachella is held in the exact same place that Festival 8 (phish fest '09) was held. All I can say is that it is a fantastic site for a festival......and I wish I could go! If you live in Cali....don't hesitate.
If you haven't seen 500 Days of Summer go rent it now. It is absolutely fantastic....I love everything about it. The soundtrack is awesome with nods to The Smiths, Regina Spektor, Black Lips, Fiest, etc. I kept noticing one song throughout the movie...'Sweet Disposition' by The Temper Trap. It's enchanting.....
So I had been waiting for this Avett Brothers show for a long time. I had gotten, by some divine intervention, front row seats at The Fox theater in Atlanta. I absolutely love the Fox and could not have been happier. Cut to the day of the show....1. morning after New Year's Eve-enough said...2. coldest day so far this year (I think.) We rally, start the festivities, and head to the show. When we get there we realize that the actual orchestra pit was filled in with seats....not our front row seats, but someone else's. Needless to say, our seats were still really good and we had a pretty good view through the 3 rows of people in front of us. We watch a few songs of Langhorne Slim's which was very entertaining..his banjo player is ridiculous....and then head to get refills before Avett starts. The moment of truth comes and the lights flicker on and off. We head to our seats and await the awesomeness. They open with 'Colorshow'...I'm thinking, okay good way to start, I like where this is headed....'Head Full of Doubt' was next....I'm thinking a little to early for this one, but go ahead...... (We had these guys sitting behind us that were literally screaming every lyric, while the girl on the left was thinking she was Jewel, and the people on the right looked like they were forced to go.) The setlist was inevitably less than outstanding. I think new fans probably enjoyed it, but for those of us who have been around a while, it just didn't hack it. The order was off, the song choice was off, and it was pretty much the same set from the night before. I was disappointed because they have so many amazing songs to choose from and I feel like they play the same ones over and over.....basically I feel like I've seen that show before. So, overall I was just not wowed....as I usually am. Scott seemed to be "off" also, but Seth was stellar as always. The night ended with drunken banter from some douche leaving the show....annoying, but entertaining and made me realize that the old days of awesome Avett shows with actual cool people are over.......Sucess: such sweet sorrow.
Here's the opener 'Colorshow' and the encore 'Laundry Room' and 'Talk on Indolence'
