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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

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Day 59 = STRFKR
Performing = Sunday

STRFKR is a indie electronica band that formed in 2007 in Portland, Oregon. The act started out as a solo project by founder Joshua Hodges, who had grown tired of his previous band Sexton Blake. Josh started out playing basement shows around the Portland area for anyone looking to dance and have a good time. As an act of refusal to the rock band cultural, the lad would perform under the moniker Starfucker. Surely, there was no way for an act with such a stupid nonconforming name like that, could possibly catch on? Wrong, not only did it catch on, but he needed to recruit friends to complete the squad as a quartet, and then they cut their first album in 2008.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

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Day 58 = Foster The People
Performing = Saturday

Foster The People are a Los Angeles based alternative pop band that formed in 2009. The outfit was founded by Mark Foster who had recently moved to Hollywood from Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 18. The band’s career needed little time getting off the ground, as their ridiculously stupid song “Pumped Up Kicks,” skyrocketed the trio to mainstream success quicker than you could say WTF. The last time I saw a band go from internet indie buzz to the top of the music world in a blink of an eye was back in 2004, when The Killers surfaced with “Somebody Told Me.”

The “Pumped” tune was originally released on a self-titled EP in early 2011, by the time the full-length LP Torches dropped in late May, 9 out of the 10 tracks had already been licensed. FTP’s music could be heard on Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Friends With Benefits, and Entourage, in addition they were helping sell cars for Nissan. Besides being all over the Billboard Charts, the band played Saturday Night Live, and was nominated for several Grammy Awards.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

Check out previous days here.

Day 57 = GOAT
Performing = Friday

GOAT is the moniker for singer-songwriter and multi-instrumental artist Wouter De Backer. Mr. GOAT is best known for setting the world on fire with his 2012 pop smash hit “Somebody That I Used To Know.” Wait a minute, I think I was given the wrong GOAT…

GOAT is a Swedish collective that specializes in psychedelic experimental rock fusion. Their vibe is described as funk and tribal rhythms, kraut and prog-rock repetition, psych freakery, and acid folkisms. Sound fun? there’s more, the group has been playing together since they were children and hail from a small town in Northern Sweden known for its voodoo worship. The band performs in masks and apparently is into black magic and bizarre rituals on stage.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

Check out previous days here.

Day 56 = CHVRCHES
Performing = Saturday

CHVRCHES are a synthpop band that formed in 2011 and hail from Glasgow, Scotland. By now, if you are a regular to this blog, you already know my affection and nonstop praise for this Scottish trio. The band was born on the internet when they dropped the tunes “Lies” and “The Mother We Share” into the indie music blogosphere back in 2012. Their misspelled name in all caps have made them simple to find, even for the Google-challenged user.

The trio consists of the lovely Lauren Mayberrry (lead vocals), Iain Cook (guitar and bass), and Martin Doherty (samples), all of which put their hands on the synthesizer. Prior to CHVRCHES, Lauren was with Boyfriend/Girlfriend and Blue Sky Archives, while Ian was a member of Aerogramme and Unwinding Hours, and finally Martin used to tour with The Twilight Sad. Iain met Lauren when he produced an EP for Blue Sky Archives, at that time he asked her to check out some demos he was working on with his college bud Martin.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

Check out previous days here.

Day 55 = Kate Nash
Performing = Friday

Kate Nash is an English singer-songwriter and actress that launched her musical career on MySpace in 2005. Her edgy piano-driven pop rock is cut from the same mold that brought us fellow U.K. singer Lily Allen. The two actually promote each other’s work, and their heavy British accents makes their work unmistakable. Personally, I prefer Ms. Allen’s work just slightly, but after taking the latest effort from Ms. Nash for a spin… I dunno?

The natural redhead has released three studio albums:
Made Of Bricks (2007)
My Best Friend Is You (2010)
Girl Talk (2013)
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

Check out previous days here.

Day 53 = MGMT
Performing = Saturday

MGMT is a neo-psychedelic indie pop band that formed in Middletown, Connecticut. The duo of Benjamin Goldwassser and Andrew VanWyngarden founded the project while attending Wesleyan College in 2002, where the two were freshmen at the time.

The band started out as The Management, however their legal team didn’t do their due diligence at the time, and the name needed to be changed to MGMT in 2005. Later that year after graduation, the two cut the EP Time To Pretend and toured in support of it.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

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Day 52 = The Preatures
Performing = Friday

The Preatures are a rock band from Sydney, Australia that formed in 2010. Present-Tense will love this… Their style is described as rock-n-roll-gothic-soul with a little bit of R&B and a twist of country thrown in for good measure. Some say it’s like The Velvet Underground came dancing into Motown, while others simply brush it off as HAIM in disguise. As in the case with HAIM, the fucking Fleetwood Mac comparisons are widespread, however with The Preatures, other Heritage Acts such as The Pretenders, Patty Smith, and the aforementioned Velvet Underground are prevalent.
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

Check out previous days here.

Day 51 = The Toy Dolls
Performing = Sunday

The Toy Dolls are an English punk rock band that formed in 1979. Amazingly, Mr. Heritage himself has never heard of these dudes until he began researching all of the acts on this year’s poster. I thought it would be interesting to go over some of the Fun Facts that I stumbled upon about the band.

The Toy Dolls Fun Facts:
* 24 former members of the band, you read that right, 24.
* 16 studio albums released.
* 15 singles, none of which you’ve probably ever heard of.
* 14 different drummers.
* 12 different bassists (not one named Kim).
* 3 current members
* 1 original member remains (Michael Algar)
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Over the next 11 weeks I’ll dig deep into the 2014 Coachella Music Festival lineup, featuring one band per day. The purpose of this piece is to assist in difficult decisions that inevitably you’ll need to make, as well as, serve as a fun countdown to Coachella Week. Note: All bands appear in a completely random order… Enjoy, and let the countdown continue!

Check out previous days here.

Day 50 = City and Colour
Performing = Saturday

Dallas Green is a Canadian singer-songwriter that uses the moniker City and Colour. The Ontario based musician is the former singer and guitarist for the defunct hardcore band Alexisonfire. Mr. Green’s current folk act started out as an acoustic solo side project in 2004. When he takes his show on the road he usually recruits a rotating cast of Canadian indie rock characters. The name City and Colour simply comes from his name, Dallas (city) and Green (color), or the fancy way Green spells it, colour.
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