Coachella 2020

Sleaford Mods pretty big now in Europe and go everywhere with an air of excitement surrounding them - ie rapturous reviews, Iggy said best band in the world etc- in U.S they hardly raise a mention , PFK didn't bother to review the last record at all don't think

Related to that:

Coachella owner Philip Anschutz & his wife donated over $1.2 MILLION to the Republican Party, GOP candidates & political groups since the start of 2018 midterms—plus he was probed in Senate hearings over ties to even more "dark money" backing Trump Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch https://t.co/lpwzxFlYZM

— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) January 3, 2020

newly reunited (and massive draw) My Chemical Romance apparently pulled out of the lineup at the last minute - no clear reason why but it's speculated that they were unhappy about not getting top billing over RATM lol.
 
that doesn't really fit their MO at all though - it might have been the political donations and AEG is just trying to save face, or MCR just decided they wanted to do UK/Europe over the summer instead as they've been hinting at on Twitter.

Would be ironic if they pulled out over political donations, but RATM didn't.

Rage Alongside The Machine

Quietly Stew Against the Machine

Ride Astride the Machine

the mcr speculation is all hooey afaic

Really Appreciate the Money

jesus, I didn't realize AEG owned that many venues

yeah LN and AEG together own like 75%+ of the venues in NYC, and I'm sure it's just as bad or worse in other cities.

LN was looking to buy a mid-sized venue in my smaller city and every local venue owner and event booker appeared before the city council and basically said "keep those fuckers out of here"

i'm loving banda ms being billed so prominently on the sunday lineup

wait - Hatsune Miku!? That's like... alright, look it up yourselves. :-)