Coachella Set Times, Lineup Announced [PHOTOS]: Performances Set For 2013 Music Festival
Let the overlap complaints commence! Coachella 2013 has revealed its set times for the first weekend of the Indio, Calif. festival/juggernaut. I've compiled a handy list of overlaps so that Coachella festivalgoers aren't surprised that they "missed X cuz I was busy watching Y."
FRIDAY
The unfortunate choices start early with an indie darling showdown between Lord Huron (1-1:40, Mojave stage) and The Neighbourhood (1:25-2:05, Outdoor Theatre), before carrying on throughout the day with several difficult decisions.
Overlaps That Will Be Decided By Which Genre You Prefer: Aesop Rock (3:25-4:10, Outdoor Theatre) and Jake Bugg (3:05-3:50, Mojave).
Canadian Civil War: Japandroids, Metric and Alt-J's sets all overlap around the 5 o' clock hour.
Clusterf&#ks Of DOOM:
Modest Mouse-Local Natives-Jello Biafra
Blur-Band Of Horses- Purity Ring
The Stone Roses- Tegan and Sara-Earl Sweatshirt- How To Destroy Angels- Bassnectar in the late shows.
SATURDAY
Day 2 keeps it relatively overlap free for the first half of the day, before dropping some seriously touch choices on the back 9
Overlaps That Will Be Decided By Which Genre You Prefer: Allen Stone- Dropkick Murphys- 2 Chainz; the Postal Sevice- Descendents
Breakbeat Beatdown: Action Bronson- Birdy Nam Nam; Danny Brown-Baauer
Clusterf&#ks Of DOOM:
El P- Violent Femmes - Major Lazer
Grizzly Bear- Yeasayer- Hot Chip
The xx- Two Door Cinema Club- Janelle Monae- Franz Ferdinand
Phoenix- New Order
SUNDAY
Sunday has almost no notable overlaps until the late afternoon, when the ish gets real. Wu-Tang Clan and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have almost no competition at their late shows, oddly enough.
Overlaps That Will Be Decided By Which Genre You Prefer: La Roux-Vampire Weekend- Father John Misty- Hardwell
Tanlines-Dinosaur Jr.- Social Distortion
Battle of the 1s and 2s: James Blake-Paul Oakenfold
Clusterf&#ks Of DOOM: Other than the previously mentioned 4-way, there aren't any. If you have trouble deciding between Wu-Tang and Roni Size & Dynamite MC, you don't deserve to attend.
That's it. A handy primer of all of the difficult decisions that you will have to make at Coachella (music-wise, anyway). Check out the full listing of Coachella set times here and let me know if I missed any in the comments.
(P.S. Is anyone else weirded out by the way Coachella's schedules are written? Bottom to top? Who reads like that? It took my longer than I'd care to admit to figure out what was going on.)