Coachella 2009 Lineup Announced
Macco
Friday, April 17
Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen, Conor Oberst, Beirut, The Black Keys, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, The Ting Tings, The Crystal Method, Ghostland Observatory, Crystal Castles, The Airborne Toxic Event, We Are Scientists, N.A.S.A., Patton & Rahzel, M. Ward, The Presets, The Hold Steady, A Place to Bury Strangers, Felix da Housecat, Buraka Som Sistema, Ryan Bingham, Bajofondo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Noah & the Whale, White Lies, The Bug, Alberta Cross, Los Campesinos!, Craze & Klever, Molotov, Switch, Gui Boratto, Steve Aoki, The Aggrolites, People Under the Stairs, The Courteeners, Cage the Elephant, Dear and the Headlights.
Wino
Saturday, April 18
The Killers, Amy Winehouse, Thievery Corporation, TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Atmosphere, Mastodon, TRAV$DJ-AM, Henry Rollins, Crookers, Turbonegro, Hercules and Love Affair, Superchunk, Glasvegas, Dr. Dog, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T & the DBT’s, Amanda Palmer, The Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Para One (Live), Calexico, Liars, Bob Mould Band, Zane Lowe, Electric Touch, Blitzen Trapper, James Morrison, Drop the Lime, Glass Candy, Thenewno2, Gang Gang Dance, Billy Talent, Ida Maria, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Zizek, Cloud Cult, Tinariwen.
Saddo
Sunday, April 19
The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Throbbing Gristle, Lupe Fiasco, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, X, Antony & the Johnsons, Roni Size, Public Enemy, Jenny Lewis, Groove Armada, Paolo Nutini, Christopher Lawrence, Lykke Li, The Kills, Okkervil River, M.A.N.D.Y., Clipse, Sebastien Tellier, F—-d Up, Perry Farrell, The Horrors, Late of the Pier, K’naan, Junior Boys, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Supermayer, No Age, Vivian Girls, Shepard Fairey, Themselves, Gaslight Anthem, The Knux, Mexican Institute of Sound, The Night Marchers, Marshall Barnes.
Of Montreal Will Play Norman Music Festival
The latest band to confirm for NMF ‘09 is Of Montreal, touring in support of Skeletal Lamping. This is exciting news, especially since I’ve yet to get a chance to see the suped-up version of the Of Montreal show since Kevin Barnes started collecting Outback cash. The festival takes place April 25 in Downtown Norman, and if the rumors I’ve heard about lineup are confirmed, this is going to be an extraordinary day.
AC/DC Understands “Black Ice” Can Feel Like “Highway to Hell”
AC/DC’s latest disc is called “Black Ice,” but the Australian rockers understand why fans did not want to drive on it.
Citing the ice and snow that kept some fans away from Monday’s concert at Tulsa’s BOK Center, the venue and the group are offering refunds to any concertgoers who did not make it to the show. Refunds begin at 10 a.m. Friday. To receive a refund, the ticket buyer must bring the ticket to the point of purchase, or if the ticket was purchased online at Tickets.com, call (866) 726-5287. The deadline for refunds is March 16.
Random 10 for January 29, 2009
1. The Beatles, “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).” One of the more notorious Christmas fan club records the Beatles recorded, in which the greatest band in pop history wrote two lines of lyrics and put them through a classic Fab piano chord progression, then a Jamaican roots-rock treatment, then a lounge singer named Dennis Obell who sounds vaguely like Elvis, then a British music hall goofoff that echoes Eric Idle and Terry Jones in drag, and finally some gutteral noises. Classic.
2. Animal Collective, “Brother Sport.”
3. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, “Your Long Journey.”
4. Belle & Sebastian, “The Wrong Girl.”
5. Fountains of Wayne, “Someone To Love.” I was generally underwhelmed by FoW’s Traffic and Weather, “Strapped for Cash” notwithstanding, and particularly peeved that the first video from the disc featured Demetri Martin, who is about as enjoyable as as colonoscopy, and proving the Peter Principle right again, is getting his own Comedy Central show.
6. Massive Attack, “Unfinished Sympathy.”
7. Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin, “House Fire.”
8. Ween, “She F—s Me.”
9. Von Iva, “Electricity.”
10. Santogold, “Lights Out.” Santogold’s debut solo disc wasn’t the masterwork many were expecting, but it was the album Gwen Stefani would have made if she hadn’t been trying to sell music to 14-year-olds.
“Lost” Questions
Ellie (Alexandra Krosney) in “Lost” Season 5, episode 3, “Jughead.”
Is Richard Albert (Nestor Carbonell) just skipping through time, or is he immortal? And is he the lead singer of Maroon 5?
Is Miss Hawking (Fionula Flanagan), who met with Ben Linus in Los Angeles, Daniel Faraday’s (Jeremy Davies) mother?
Is Ellie (Alexandra Krosney), the cute gun-toting Other in 1954, Faraday’s mother 50 years ago, ergo, Miss Hawking 50 years ago? Matt Mitovich of “TV Guide” thinks she’s Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan), but methinks that her age in ‘54 (the actress playing her is 18) would make her a little old to be Danielle.
Did Charlotte (Rebecca Mader) pass out and start bleeding profusely because, in 2004, they’re standing at the site where “Jughead” is buried?
If John Locke is alive on the island, who’s dead in the box? Is this just more for the time-skipping brain twist? What’s in the box?
Video of the Day: Nous Non Plus, “Loli”
Celine Dijon and Jean-Luc Retard get their stop-action freak on in this first clip from Menagerie, and leap over the line between sensuous eating and being just plain gross.
Music Review: Animal Collective, “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
Rating: 90
Animal Collective’s “Merriweather Post Pavilion” finds its rightful place in art-rock’s tradition of unexpected detours into pop music — when Peter Gabriel released “So,” he proved that progressive musicians often know their way around chart hits better than anyone might expect. As such, Animal Collective’s enthusiasm for world beat textures, Brian Wilson-like walls of sound and 10-minute drones are now called to service in accessible melodies and song structures, making “Merriweather Post Pavilion” a psychedelic pop masterstroke.
This refined approach is displayed beautifully in “My Girls,” in which vocalists Noah Lennox (“Panda Bear”) and Dave Portner (“Avey Tare”) build a baroque choral arrangement for a song about parenting and domestic bliss, then surround it with electronic blips and tribal rhythms. “Also Frightened” alternates between the raga-rock drone of The Beatles’ “Rain” and a Strauss waltz, but never sounds like a high-concept exercise.
The joy comes from hearing Animal Collective harness ambient noise, like the waterlogged rumblings that introduce “Bluish,” and shape them into bright, coherent melodies. To say that “Merriweather Post Pavilion” is “accessible” slightly misses the point — these songs are like Big Macs made by master chefs, easily digestible but crafted by experts.
DVD Review: “My Best Friend’s Girl”
Rating: 12
Judd Apatow reinvented frat-boy comedy by giving his characters real human situations and responsibilities with which to grapple, which is precisely why “My Best Friend’s Girl,” ostensibly marketed to the same audience, is such an exhausting disaster. If Apatow had made this odious film instead of Howard Deutch, all the stomach-churning, wall-to-wall misogyny would have context and consequences.
Dane Cook stars as Tank, a man who sells his services to just-dumped men as a worst-case dating scenario. He takes these men’s exes on execrable dates that usually involve serenades from 2 Live Crew, food poisoning and cascades of insults. But then Tank’s services are employed by his milquetoast roommate Dustin (Jason Biggs), who cannot seem to move his relationship with Alexis (Kate Hudson) beyond friend status. Alexis gives as good as she gets, and Tank — big news, here — develops feelings for her.
This cinematic sexual harassment bottom-feeds voraciously, never missing a chance to hate women with all its sclerotic heart. It might help if something — anything — that came out of Cook’s mouth in this film were funny instead of inducing winces and pity. While Apatow would see Cook’s character as another chance to explore arrested-adolescent behavior, “My Best Friend’s Girl” is just a crime against comedy.
Movie Review: “Let the Right One In”
Lina Leandersson in “Let the Right One In.”
Rating: 88
When it’s not being played strictly for visceral shocks, vampirism symbolizes the plight of the “other,” the outcast who cannot control that inextricable trait that sets her or him apart. So it only makes sense that “Let the Right One In” would succeed as a story about teenage outcasts, since few films get to the heart of adolescent alienation, and do it so chillingly.
In this Swedish import showing Thursday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) is a pre-teen living with his divorced mother in a dreary Stockholm apartment complex. Constantly preyed upon by bullies and unnoticed by most others, Oskar can only fantasize about exacting revenge against his tormentors. But Eli (Lina Leandersson), the sunken-eyed 12-year-old girl next door, has bigger problems. She must send her father — if he is, in fact, her father — out to kill for her by hanging victims upside down and letting the blood seep from their bodies.
Eli is a mystery, since Oskar only sees her at night and their relationship is a careful, tentative dance. She insists that he fight back against the taunts of class psycho Conny (Patrik Rydmark), and she is affectionate toward the boy, but all vampires must feed. Eli’s father eventually drops from the picture and Eli must do her own dirty work, putting her odd little romance with Oskar in constant jeopardy.
Director Tomas Alfredson wisely keeps the bloodsucking shocks to a minimum, which gives them considerably more power — a scene involving one of Eli’s victims and a roomful of house pets belongs in the pantheon of horror. But “Let the Right One In” is at its spookiest during those quiet moments when Oskar and Eli are together, and the line between tenderness and violence is treated as though electric. It is a haunting film, but the vampire next door is only slightly scarier than that perennial tale of terror, the onset of adolescence.
Video of the Day: Ted Leo, “Dancing in the Dark”
In honor of the announced date at BOK Center, Staticblog presents the renowned Pharmacist performing the 1984 Boss hit, stripped-down and Courteney Cox-free.
