Insular Web sites seem positively old-fashioned compared to the scrupulously eclectic world of MP3 bloggers and iPod Shuffle owners, all of them finding ways to make chaos part of their listening experience. As the current Apple slogan has it, «Life is random,» and listeners seem to be finding ways to make that truism true. And so Coachella 2005 was a Shuffler’s delight, the perfect festival for a crowd that seemed happy to hear a bit of everything. The people who got a geography lesson from the Peruvian-American underground rapper Immortal Technique («We’re not in Southern California, we’re in Northern Mexico,» he declared) didn’t look much different from the people swaying along to the indie-rock band Rilo Kiley an hour later.
¿Generación iPod? ¿Influencia de las nuevas tecnologías en las preferencias musicales? ¿Simple complacencia? El tema da para conversarlo bastante. Aparte, no estaría mal echarle un ojo al dvd del festival. Si quieren enterarse de algunos detalles de las actuaciones de los grupos mencionados, lean el artículo completo, viene en 2 partes y además trae un slide show con buenas fotos.