Coachella 2014 day 3 in pics (Motorhead, Chance the Rapper, Little Dragon, Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Toy Dolls, Arcade Fire, more)
photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin
Motörhead / Chance the Rapper / Little Dragon / Toy Dolls
However, Sunday’s lineup thankfully featured some guitar-brandishing acts, besides Motörhead, who proved that rock is not dead at Coachella — or in general. For instance, British punk veterans the Toy Dolls pulled a respectable crowd to the Mojave Tent (opposite the very different Calvin Harris’s set) and kept a proper counter-clockwise, Doc-Martens-kicking-up-dust slam pit going at full churn throughout their high-energy performance. “Do you think I’m getting too old for this?” spiky-haired frontman Michael “Olga” Algar asked the crowd. It was likely a rhetorical question, but fans ceased their slam-dancing just long enough to shout back, “Noooooo!” – [Yahoo! Music]
The first weekend of Coachella 2014 wrapped up Sunday night (4/13) with dance music and Arcade Fire, but there was lots of other stuff going on too. Motörhead, with Lemmy back in action after some health issues, was there to show them how it’s done and brought out Slash for a few songs; punk pranksters Toy Dolls and indie rock vets Superchunk both played a high energy set that would tire bands 20 years their junior; and Chicago’s Chance the Rapper brought out, um, Justin Beiber.
There were also Swedish pop charmers Little Dragon, Australia’s very talented Courtney Barnett, photoshy North Carolinians Neutral Milk Hotel, industrial-techno outfit Factory Floor, and lots lots more. Pictures from Coachella weekend 1, day 3 are in this post.
Check out day 1 pics HERE and day 2 pics HERE, and Arcade Fire‘s day 3 headlining set HERE. More pics from day 3 below…
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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Factory Floor
Bombino
Fishbone
Surfer Blood
Poolside
Courtney Barnett
Chance the Rapper
Classixx
Frank Turner
Superchunk
Neutral Milk Hotel
Little Dragon
The Toy Dolls
Lana Del Rey
Beck
Motorhead
Lucent Dossier Experience
Arcade Fire