Coachella 2009 – Day 1 in Pictures
photos by Darren Kim
"Coachella exists in two time zones: the event itself and its digital afterlife. The second zone, on cameras and blogs and Twitter and video-sharing sites, comes a heartbeat after the first, like a rockabilly slap-back echo. In its 10th year now, Coachella has been the music festival for the most technologically advanced teenagers-to-young-professionals, sniffing around the alternative mainstream. Even when the music doesn't present an argument they haven't heard before, they're controlling their own media representation of it; the act of listening is almost immediately contextualized into their own lives." [NY Times]
More pictures from Coachella Day One, below...
The Black Keys...
Crystal Castles...
We Are Scientists...
Los Campesinos...
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band...
M Ward...
The Hold Steady...
Silversun Pickups...
Genghis Tron...
A Place to Bury Strangers...
Nasa...
Franz Ferdinand...
Morrissey...
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Leonard Cohen and Paui McCartney finished off Day One (we just don't have any photographic evidence)
Day Two coming soon