It's always great to be back at Coachella Music & Arts Festival, the legendary gathering known world-wide as basically one of the best festivals ever, period. My first Coachella was 2004, when Radiohead, a reunited Pixies, The Cure, and The Flaming Lips entertained over 100,000 in 113-degree heat. That was the first time the festival ever sold out, and maybe its first real year as a cultural zenith. Since then, Coachella and its festival promoter GoldenVoice have pretty much defined who and what is cool, meaningful, and marketable in the music world.
Here's a look back at my recent weekend, which featured close encounters with Grammy-nominated Sofi Tukker (who played Velvet Jones last year) and Australian rockers Pond — soon to come.
