FLAG (Dimitri Coats/Contributed Image)
You know how the artists of the 1950s/early 1960s have multiple touring versions, like The Drifters and The Temptations? Well, punk rock has its own version when it comes to Black Flag. Greg Ginn and Ron Reyes are touring as Black Flag, but Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Bill Stevenson, Dez Cadena and Stephen Egerton are touring as FLAG.
FLAG is my pick for the classic punk band at the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (at Coachella 2013 it was the Descendents and that is still one of my favorite Coachella moments ever.)
Why? That lineup played the GV 30 show (which was put on and celebrated the 30th anniversary of Coachella promoter Goldenvoice) in Dec. 2011 and earlier this year the band played FYF in Los Angeles. Also, Coachella always has a nod to old school punk and this year it was the Descendents, who played FYF in 2012.
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Will the Haim sisters be at Coachella 2014? (Contributed Image)
Now, onto the next prediction.
I was convinced sister group Haim (not pronounced like Corey Haim) was going to be on the Coachella 2013 lineup. In the months since, the LA-based group has gotten even more buzzworthy.
I was sure of Haim at Coachella 2014 until one of my colleagues remembered that he had read an interview in GQ that they can’t do Coachella because of an annual family commitment.
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However, Haim announced spring tour dates and reader Nate Hutchinson thinks they will be at Coachella, which takes place April 11-13 and April 18-20 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
The band has a tour date scheduled for April 9 in San Francisco, then April 17 in Las Vegas and then April 23 in Austin, Texas. The dates look like they point to Coachella, but I’m still wondering about that family commitment.
They are also going to appear on “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 23.
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Nov. 5, 2013: Mogwai, The Dismemberment Plan
Oct. 25, 2013: Arcade Fire, The Naked and Famous
Oct. 7, 2013: The Pixies
Oct. 2, 2013: Paul McCartney, Luscious Jackson
Aug. 2, 2013: Neutral Milk Hotel
June 16, 2013: The Replacements