Coachella 2013 lineup revealed

While there was some big news out there today, including a brand new Strokes song that nobody seems to like, yesterday's revealing of the 2013 Coachella lineup is still the big story.

As with last year's lineup, the Indio, California festival will span two separate weekends in April (12-14 and 19-21). Following up last year's impossibly good lineup, this year looks to top it.

Featuring the shockingly rare Blur and Stones Roses as the day one headliners is enough on its own, but throwing acts like Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, New Order, Wu Tang Clan, a reunited Postal Service, and TWO Nick Cave acts make it the early front-runner for festival of the year.

Not just top heavy, the fest's mid-card and lower tier acts are ... just damn good: The Descendants, Thee Oh Sees, Violent Femmes, Major Lazer, Trash Talk, Japandroids, Local Natives, Four Tet, Dinosaur Jr., Danny Brown, Wild Nothing ... it just keeps going.

Click on the poster above to see the full lineup, but tickets won't be available for a few days. There's a special countdown on the Coachella website that you can keep track of, but tickets will sell fast when it comes.

As for Lollapalooza fans, while my status is uncertain this year, Coachella does have some forbearance on who performs at the Chicago festival. In 2011, the two huge events shared 31 acts (18 percent of the billing), although none of the acts were headliners. Last year, only one major headliner (The Black Keys) performed at both.

What does this mean for 2013? Well, don't expect Blur, The Stone Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers to appear, but don't count out Phoenix.

Kung Fu Necktie, Oct. 11 - Buke and Gase (Preview)

There must be something frustrating for people to see bands form - successful bands - seemingly out of no where. Some teenager gets a wild hair up their ass, buys a start-up stratocaster, asks some friends what they're up to, and makes something out of nothing.

I only say this because looking at the short biography of Hudson, NY duo Buke and Gase, it seems Aron Sanchez and Aron Dyer were destined to do this in the long form. Both were self-trained musicians even before the age of ten, utilizing the immense downtime of youth to learn extensively about the array of sounds and mechanics that are possible within the realm of two kid's imagination.

The contorting rhythms and scope on the band's 2010 debut LP Riposte (under a different spelling than Buke and Gase) feel free, despite only meddling between two players. It's a repeating point on the band's excellent new four-track EP Function Falls. There's plenty of DIY overtone here, but the fact that the sounds are only come from two people - especially on their cover of New Order's "Blue Monday" - is worth admiration

Tickets for their Thursday, October 11 show at Philadelphia's Kung Fu Necktie are still available.