Happy April Fool’s Day.

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Coachella 2015 Lineup:

AC/DC
Jack White
Drake
Steely Dan
Tame Impala
Interpol
Alesso
Alabama Shakes
Ride
Nero
Azealia Banks
Flying Lotys
Raekwon and Ghostface Killah
Lykke Li
Dj Snake
Porter Robinson
Caribou
Todd Terje and the Olsens
Angus
Julia Stone
Hot Natured
George Ezra
Squarepusher
Kiesza
Action Bronson
Gorgon City
Reverend Horton Heat
Sylvan Esso
Kimbra
Vic Mensa
Erol Aiken
Kele
Cloud Nothings
Keys N Krates
MK
Pete Tong
Ab-soul
Haerts
Eagulls
Allah-Las
Alvin Risk
Chris Malinchak
Jon Hopkins
Oliver Heldens
Ryan Hemsworth
Jason Bentley
Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Band
Marques Wyatt
the Ghost & Saber Tooth Tiger
Los Rakas
The Weeknd
Axwell ^ Ingrosso
alt-J
Belle and Sebastian
Ratatat
Hozier
Flosstradamus
Bad Religion
SBTRKT
FKA Twigs
Tyler the Creator
Father John Misty
The War on Drugs
Deorro
Run the Jewles
Tycho
Chet Faker
Kasabian
Drive like Jehu
Swans
Milky Chance
Toro y Moi
Jungle
New World Punx
Clean Bandit
Glass Animals
Royal Blood
Alison Wonderland
Gaslamp Killer Experience
Loco Dice
Danny Tenaglia
Antemasque
Parquet Courts
Gramatik
Lights
What So Not
Yellow Claw
DJ Harvey
Tale of Ys
Yelle
Andrew McMahon
Carl Craig
Phox
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Cashmere Cat
Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible
Tourist
Benjamin Booker
Mathew Koma
Perfume Genius
Jamestown Revival
Bad Suns
Ruen Brothers
Bixel Boys
Andrea Olivia
Ryn Weaver
Radkey
Coasts
Until the Ribbon Breaks
Florence & the Machine
Kaskade
Ryan Adams
David Guetta
St. Vincent
Marina and the Diamonds
Fitz & the Tantrums
Brand New
Madeon
Stromae
Kygo
Odesza
Gesaffelstein
RAC
Circa Survive
Jenny Lewis
Desparcidos
Jamie XX
Martin Solveig
Duke Dumont
Lil B
Mac DeMarco
Vance Joy
Built to Spill
J.E.S.&.S (Jack Master, Eat Everything, Skream, & Seth Troxler)
Panda Bear
Katyranada
R3hab
St. Lucia
Dirty South
Tiger and Woods
Dubfire
Sturgill
Chicano Batman
MØ
Sloan
Doc Martin
Saint Motel
the Orwells
the Cribs
TINI
Ben Klock
Night Terrors of 1927

29. MØ – No Mythologies to Follow
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s pretty crucial that you watch the Nardwuar interview with MØ.

28. FKA Twigs – LP1
Everyone lost their shit when this record came out. It took me three listens to decide that it wasn’t the most boring record of the year. Now I think it’s pretty alright.

27. Banks – Goddess
Great record. Tons of promise. One to watch in 2015.

26. Clean Bandit – New Eyes
“Rather Be” has around half a billion plays between all the major sources, and while that might be the best song on the album, there’s a lot of good stuff here.

25. Caribou – Our Love
I love the sound coming out of Ottawa right now, especially Jessy Lanza. I’m still not in love with Dan Snaith’s catalog as a whole, but the production on this record is enough to get a place on my list.

24. Broods – Evergreen
When you’re walking through the airport all alone, thinking about someone that’s far, far away, and your plane takes off at sunset, and you look out across a sky of big puffy pink and blue clouds, it’s Broods.

23. Odesza – In Return
Unquestionably some of the best songs of the year are on this record. It was completely unexpected, and if you’d asked me a year ago to go to an Odesza show, I’d probably have turned you down. Not anymore.

22. Jamaica – Ventura
It’s no secret that I love French music, and this record is no different. Wake up America. The Frenchies are coming for our pop music.

21. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
Yep. It’s Death From Above. Yep. It’s amazing. Yep. Your face will melt.

20. Wye Oak – Shriek
This is my Poliça of 2014. Beautiful, sexy, cool.

19. White Lung – Deep Fantasy
This is how I want my rock & roll to sound.

18. Kitten – Kitten
I saw them a couple years ago with Paramore and Chloe Chaidez was more entertaining than a box full of kittens and a laser pointer. Not only is she a beautiful style icon, she’s a force on the mic. Watch out, pop music. Ms. Chaidez has arrived.

17. Glass Animals – Zaba
Glass Animals is single handedly responsible for the forthcoming baby boom. You know what’s gooey? The people listening to this album.

16. Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
It’s a beautiful record from pop culture’s next Adele. Watch out for him to clean up at the grammies.

15. Pharrell – G I R L
This is how partying sounds without the crying, bad decisions, and regret-filled mornings. He’s got more hooks than a fishing hat.

14. Jungle – Jungle
Where did you come from, Jungle? Did TV on the Radio have a love child with Klaxons? According to wikipedia, they formed in 2013, which is enough to send the self-conscious under achiever in me spiraling with despair. Yeah, well I started a blog. Take your perfect record and go back to England.

13. Dum Dum Girls – Too True
Certainly their most complete record, Too True will make you want to wear all black, start a band, get famous, and headline a music festival just for the remote chance at a date with one of the Dum Dum Girls.

12. SOHN – Tremors
This is a record for the heartbroken, full of lonely lyrics and heartfelt hooks. It takes a special state of mind to appreciate the beauty of this record.

11. Tensnake – Glow
This was another surprise. I wouldn’t even be disappointed if a DJ just played this record straight through instead of mixing a set. It’s that good.

10. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
This record will likely be the one that most withstands the test of time for me. Ryan is really in his prime at his new PaxAm studio in LA, considering two of the records in my top 10 were made there. This is the culmination of the Ryan Adams project, his finest work, without question. He really seems happier, and it’s finally coming through in his music.

9. Chromeo – White Women
This is another band finally achieving what they’ve been promising for nearly a decade. It’s fun, smart, catchy without being kitschy — everything a good record should be. I want to see a Chromeo show every day.

8. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
Oh hello, North Carolina. Sometimes I think this band is completely carried by Amelia Meath’s incredible vocal work, but then the production — in particular the restraint that Nick Sanborn shows — reminds me that it truly is a collaboration. It’s an incredible debut record.

7. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
“This might be the best Ryan Adams album since Love is Hell,” my buddy Kyle said. I can say without fail, that this certainly is the best Jenny Lewis album of all time.

6. Mr. Little Jeans – Pocketknife
If you like pop music, you have to listen to this record. One gets the sense that it’s a true reflection of Monica Berkenes — fun, happy, but deeply emotional. In that way, it’s kind of a reflection of every Norwegian I’ve ever met. It’s a perfect album.

5. RAC – Strangers
The featured artists list on this record reads like a music festival green room artist list. With that much talent and a producer that seems to have an ear for pop the way Picasso had an eye for rectangles makes for one excellent piece of music. The live shows are fantastic, too.

4. Kishi Bashi – Lighght
I have a tendency to love records that are deceptively simple — layers of clever melodies, lyrics that hinge more on rhythm and rhyme than depth and meaning. This album is a major exception. Exceptionally smart, masterfully executed, and thoughtfully written, this is a record for musicians as well as music lovers.

3. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
I can’t believe I’m putting Lana Del Rey this high on my list, but I think I finally get it. She’s telling a story with her entire life. She’s a character in her own world, and this record is as beautiful as her reflection. Dan Auerbach’s contributions no doubt played a role in my opinion of this album, but goddamn is it something special.

2. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
Flawless. Exceptional. Beautiful. So deserving of the number one spot, and only my personal prejudices kept it out. It’s an amazing piece of work. Don’t read. Listen.

1. Phantogram – Voices
Beauty like this doesn’t come along every day. No, I’m not talking about singer Sarah Barthel (but I’m also not not talking about her either). They’ve been telling this story for a long time: the only thing that’s important is who and what you love, and one day you’ll die alone in a see of black emptiness. It’s a fairy tale for the fucked up, those of us in love with the miserable honesty of the world, and finally Phantogram has developed that message to it’s penultimate climax. This is the kind of sadness that makes life worth living.

Wait, what?

One of these things is not like the others.

Four of these artists are among the most seminal, significant artists of the 20th century and the other one is Green Day.

I’m not saying Green Day doesn’t deserve a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but it took 24 years for arguably the greatest blues rock guitar player in history to get a place — the year of his death just so happens to be the same year that Billie Joe et. al released their first full length.

Lou Reed just died last year, but he was the front man for one of the most influential New York rock bands of all time.

Ringo may be the least important Beatle, but that’s still like being the least important Vermeer — they’re all important.

Any argument about the most influential female rock singers of all time would be remiss without Joan Jett on the list — Joplin, The Wilson Sisters, Stevie Knicks and Christine McVie, Patti Smith, Chrissy Hynde, and somewhere in there, Joan Jett.

Then there’s Green Day. Exceptionally successful commercially. Hugely popular for two decades. I would never debate their potential for that esteemed position, but I do think it’s a bit preemptive.

And then there’s Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Whenever there’s a discussion about the greatest guitar player of all time, his name always seems to slip beneath Eric Clapton, which is a goddamn travesty.  SRV took the unabashed passion and sheer technical fortitude of Jimmy Hendrix and continued to the natural conclusion that the 60′s great left unfinished.

I’ve never been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but I have to think that if I had gone before he was added, it would have been a fairly glaring oversight. I’m glad to hear he’ll finally have his place next to the other greats.

Like Green Day.

This is why you don’t burn your recording engineer.

After being hired to record a live Hole performance and getting stiffed for the bill, J. M. Ladd had nothing left but the recording. So what did he do with it?

He released this video of Courtney Love butchering Hole’s 1998 classic, “Celebrity Skin.”

Why is she still allowed to touch a guitar? People are calling her on her singing, which to my ear, sounds fine. She’s a rock singer. It’s not supposed to sound beautiful. And she’s basically in key. Most of the time. Ok, some of the time. But that’s kind of the point.

Isolate any rock singer and I think you’ll be surprised at what you hear.  Unless it’s Jack White, in which case you’ll only hear him bitching about how everyone else isn’t as good as he is.

Penguin Prison — the pseudonym for writer/producer Chris Glover — is on the cusp of releasing his second full-length record, the follow-up to 2011′s fantastic self-titled release.

This single, a collaboration between Los Angeles production duo Oliver, is the first track to appear from the new record.

I’ve been a huge fan of the Penguin Prison stuff for a while, so this upcoming release is sure to shake things up at the top of my Best-of lists.

Is there anyone in music that Jack White respects? It sure doesn’t seem like it.

In between songs during his set in Boston last night, White starts out by bitching about how no one uses microphones with chords anymore, to which I respond, “Who gives a fuck?”

He then takes on the Foo Fighters, saying they cover up their mistakes by using more than one guitar. You know, like basically every band ever.

I wish someone could cover up for Jack White’s mistakes by giving him more than one mouth: one that says wise, measured, things with the perspective worthy of the genius he unquestionably possesses and the one that he has now.

I’m calling it now: rehab and citing “stress” as the reason for all this crazy in about t-minus 60 days.

I’ve been on to these guys for a minute, since a mutual friend went to the University of Washington with them, and with every release, their sound becomes more developed, more their own.

This new summer jam keeps that tradition alive. Last I heard they were still laying low until after graduation, but I think that time has passed. Hopefully this is the beginning of a new era of Beat Connection, and the release of their second full length record.

In the meantime, give The Palace Garden a listen and get excited.

It’s been a while since Disclosure has released new music, but they’re back on the map with another Mary J. Blige fronted track.

The duo should be back in the studio this fall, with a full-length expected next year.