You probably thought today would be a regular ol’ Tuesday, but actually it’s Mini Coachella at Your Desk Day! We’ll just be here, listening to some music from a handful of artists who happen to be attractive, female, and on the Coachella lineup. You can wear whatever you want. Bonus streaming playlist when you get to the bottom! That’s what she said?
Mini Coachella: All the Pretty Girls
Laura Marling
British folk-rock. Sad lyrics. Sounds like early evening in the winter, on a porch in the woods; whiskey.
Latest: A Creature I Don’t Know
Listen to Laura Marling in concert at NPR.
Wild Flag
They had you at Carrie Brownstein. Sounds like dancing on your bed in your underwear with the curtains open.
Latest: Wild Flag
Listen to Wild Flag in concert at NPR.
Lissie
More folk-rock, American. Sounds like driving out of town on Saturday morning.
Latest: Covered Up With Flowers
Mazzy Star
You have to go beyond “Fade Into You.”
Latest album: Common Burn / Lay Myself Down
First Aid Kit
Swedish alt-country. Sounds like your heart walked out of your chest to find itself.
Latest album: The Lion’s Roar
Listen to The Lion’s Roar streaming at NPR.
Grace Potter
Kinda rock, kinda country. Your mom knows her from the Good Morning America theme song. Sounds like dusty summers in cut-offs; Jack and Coke.
Latest: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Dragonette
Canadian electropop! You’re dancing! She’s dancing! We’re all dancing now!
Latest: Fixin to Thrill / Hello
Cat Power
Soul soul soul. Singin’ about life and love, with soul. Sounds like falling asleep in a canoe; drinking wine alone.
Latest: Jukebox
St. Vincent
Cerebral, happy, dark, weird. I think everyone loves St. Vincent except me.
Latest: Strange Mercy
Listen to St. Vincent in concert at NPR.
GIVERS
American indie-pop (technically there’s just one girl in this ensemble, but still). You’re in a parade on your way to a party where they’ll serve fizzy lemonade in polka dotted glasses and the sun will never set.
Latest: In Light
Am I missing anyone amazing? Tell us about your favorites in the comments!
ETA: The title of this post is in no way meant to imply that artists who weren’t included are not “pretty,” ok? I’m just really bad at titles. Also pizza — I can’t make a decent homemade pizza to save my life, so.
Laneia, these descriptions are so good that I had to comment on Autostraddle for the first time ever even though I read every entry every. single. day. Love your pieces.
Elizabeth! Hi. This was a really nice thing to say. I liked this comment.
Well, I have no one to add. In my opinion:
Hope Sandoval = List complete.
First Aid Kit made Patti Smith cry in front of a bunch of important looking Swedish people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFbLdapNt8
I agree with Elizabeth, your “sounds like” descriptions are pure poetry.
Thirded
yup, wish i could “like.” something so satisfying about those little ole buttons.
Also, “dusty summers in cut-offs, Jack and Coke” is the perfect description of the first time I saw Grace Potter in concert, at an outdoor music festival.
Here’s a video of Tif Lamson, the one girl in GIVERS, covering a Mazzy Star song. The video sucks but the audio’s good. You’re welcome.
Woah, thanks for introducing me to White Flag! Love Portlandia, but never actually listened to Carrie’s band. Swweeeett sound
don’t forget her old band sleater-kinney!
I think everyone loves Carrie Brownstein except me.
Mmmm Cat Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGMaEvhQj1E
Laura Marling is absolutely adorable, and oh so talented. I have a huge crush on her. There is a girl that works at Pita Pit near my house that reminds me of Laura Marling quite a bit – I go there way too often.
Oh and Laura Marling was one of my first self-aware girl crushes. Luv her forever.
ST VINCENT ST VINCENT ST VINCENT.
i will never stop loving her. never.
Most excited about:
Wild Flag
St. Vincent
Tune-Yards OH MY GOSH, TUNE-YARDS Laneia! Here is some Tune-Yards, or tUnE-yArDs if you miss typing like we all did as young’ns in the late ’90s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsTUvSFu8E
Pretty excited about:
Mazzy Star
Cat Power
I guess all of the folk bands, though I haven’t listened to as much folk since I moved out of Appalachia.
I am SO GLAD I now know who does that “Hello” song. Do you guys remember the video of that guy dancing through a mall to that song? It is that song, right? I love it. So now I’m excited about Dragonette too.
I was wrong, the mall dance video features “Fembot” by Robyn. Oh well. I still like “Hello.”
tune yards! they are so odd and yet amazing at the same time. they once played an in-store in toronto and i was soo sad that i missed it.
I don’t know how I forgot tune-yards on this list. I blame the lack of coffee? Also I just realized that titling it “all the pretty girls” would imply that any female left off the list was not “pretty,” which um obviously is not what I meant. So! Yeah. Writing on the internet. Super hard :\
It certainly did not cross my mind that that’s what you were implying.
Merrill Garbus! Thought she was a gay-bot, but the 10 seconds I just spent on google has not confirmed this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ1LI-NTa2s
I am dead inside because I can’t go to Coachella this year. the lineup is so beautiful.
I saw St Vincent in Portland last fall and she is even better live. Annie Clark is a rock god.
All of these women make me weak. I don’t have knees anymore. I used to have violent convulsions after looking at pictures of Annie Clark. I’m not even kidding, I used to start crying, just a little bit, like the last drop of water wrung from a damp sponge. But I would have to apologize profusely after yelling at people for showing me pictures of her. My body can’t handle it. And I’m obviously having a Carrie Brownstein revival via. Portlandia that is just insane. I want to make an altar to this post.
I LOOKED AT PICTURES OF ANNIE CLARK WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THAT
how can you not love st. vincent? i am concerned. go. listen. watch. this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jv4lgFrL7U then this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUDF1XF_Pog
(i’m not even ashamed of the serious crush i’ve developed. oh, annie, if i ever meet the dirty policeman that roughed you up..)
for some reason i can’t listen to her album stuff and i couldn’t get into that 4AD video much either; but i’ve seen her live and it was soo amazing. that second video, unf, her legs.
i have one more thing for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSja3k1j9jo
i hope you’re a fan now :)
(can’t wait for the next opportunity to see her live)
I think it’s the legs/booty combination. I almost want to apologize for being crude, but I mean REALLY.
Annie es the best. I totally have a crush on her! She is so beutiful and weird, all I want in a woman.
apparently the Strange Mercy album is pressed on white vinyl? i think i have to actually buy it instead of downloading.
its a limited edition (the white vinyl version), so hurry. it’s worth every cent and warms my minimalist soul…
“Sounds like dancing on your bed in your underwear with the curtains open.” Sounds like my life.
Laura Marling was awesome at Glastonbury!
falling asleep in a canoe is not a good idea. guess how i know this. you will be woken up by a mean friend or a mean water current/tree limb situation that decides it would be fun to flip you. you will also be burned by the sun.
the rest of your descriptions made up for the anxiety attack that “falling asleep in a canoe” gave me.
you cannot dash my dreams like this heather. i will not let you.
Ximena Sariñana … Its her first Coachella and trust me you have to see her, she’s so cute, great music, interesting life and more ….
dear laneia,
thank you for making me feel like i’m not the only person on the internet who doesn’t care for st.vincent.
love,
anna
i love first aid and cat power szdjfhksdhfsd
now sad (again) about not coachella-ing
am i the only person still in love with morningwood??
I totally love Morningwood!
HOW CAN ANYONE NOT BE COMPLETELY IN LOVE
I was stoned and wanted listen to something but I couldn’t think of what. Thank you Autostraddle. Now I know.
autostraddle, i approve of this very much, especially cat power:)
(more) pretty girls…
Santigold
EMA
La Roux
Band of Skulls
The Head and the Heart
Tegan and Sara, Tegan and Sara, Tegan and Sara