Gustavo TurnerWhile other news outlets keep telling you that Coachella 2010 was a resounding, trouble-free success, and while the organizers are bragging about the size of the crowds to Billboard (as if bigger meant better when it comes to crowds…), you know you can rely on the LA Weekly to tell you what really happened there: good music (with weird choices for the main stage while the tents and the side stage were overflowing), terrible disorganization, unmanageable crowds, and a general … well, it isn't for nothing that our cutesy renaming of the festival to Clusterfuckchella 2010 seems to have hit a nerve.
Here's a summary of all our Coachella coverage, featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, and the slutty:
Day-by-Day Overviews:
Coachella Day 1 WINs and FAILs
Coachella Day 2 WINs and FAILs
Coachella Day 3 WINs and FAILs
Music Reviews:
Day 1: Deadmau5 Blazes New Trails In The Desert
Day 1: LCD Soundsystem Takes Coachella A Step Back (con)
Day 1: Silver Apples, LCD Soundsystem and Brett Favre (pro)
Day 1: Kaskade Makes Nice At Coachella
Day 1: John Lydon, Antidotes, and PiLs
Day 1: DJ Tiesto Rocks Peak Time Set At Coachella
Day 2: John Waters Is a Great Role Model for Young America (No, Seriously)
Day 2: The Gobi Tent Can't Contain Beth Ditto's Gossip
Day 2: The xx: Blood, and Ketamine
Day 2: The Dirty Projectors and Bowling With Angels
Day 2: Muse Gets Bombastic at Coachella (Would You Expect Less?)
Day 3: Orbital Goes Back To The Future With Rave-Era Set
Day 3: Infected Mushroom Brings Head-Banging Trance To Coachella
Day 3: Plastikman Teaches Future Technology By Digging Into Past At Coachella
Day 3: Jay-Z and Beyonce Nerd Out Over Thom Yorke Just Like Everyone Else
Day 3: Sly & the Family Codependent
Day 3: Gorillaz at Coachella, Why the Multi-Media Group Matters
Clusterfuckchella (Chaos at the gates on Friday and all the rest):
Coachella Now Free? Riot Averted–for now–as security letting people in for free–kind of
Can You Hear Me Now? Maybe Not At Coachella
Five Ways Organizers Can Make Coachella A Better Experience
Slideshows:
Desert Debauchery at the Ace Hotel #Coachella
CuriousJosh: The Do Lab and Lucent Dossier at #Coachella
#Coachella Day 1: Jay Z, La Roux, Them Crooked Vultures and More
#Coachella Music Loves Fashion Pool Party
#Coachella Day 2: Muse, Faith No More, the Dead Weather, Devo and more
#Coachella Day 3: Gorillaz, Thom Yorke, Phoenix, De La Soul and more
#Coachella Anthem Lagoon Pool Party
CuriousJosh: Interactive Art at #Coachella
The 40 Most Memorable People at #Coachella
#Coachella: Hippies or Hipsters?
CuriousJosh: #Coachella Bassface Afterparty
Nightranger: Coachella Crashed
Parties and VIPs (featuring Nightranger and the mysterious Hannibal Moncrief)
Nightranger's Coachella Check-list: Desert Dos and Don'ts
Nightranger's Coachella Style Report: Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
Day 1: Hannibal Moncrief Was There and You Have Not Seen His Records
Day 2: Hannibal Moncrief, Hot Chip & Flying Lotus & The Ascent of Nerd-Chic
Day 3: Hannibal Moncrief, Class Warfare, & The Hollow Earth
Seen at Coachella: Hula Hooping at Night
Coachella vs. Comic-Con: Are the Two That Different?
BONUS:
Tell Us Your Coachella Stories!
Tweeter Madness: #Coachella experience in under 140 characters
Our Coachella 2010 Preview (from the April 15th print issue)
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