Headlining duties for each night will be handled by long-running veteran acts, with the Black Keys on each Friday, Radiohead on the Saturdays, and performances from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre closing out both Sundays. On top of that, a number of current acts to perform at the California concert event include Bon Iver, M83, Frank Ocean, Girls, Cat Power, Neon Indian, Justice, Florence and the Machine, Beirut, the Shins, Feist, Andrew Bird, St. Vincent, Destroyer, Real Estate, Wild Flag and many more.
In keeping with tradition, the festival will host a number of artists in full reunion mode. (Looks like some of those rumours were true-) Brit-pop stalwarts Pulp, hardcore Swedish punk band Refused, Mike Watt's post-Minuteman spielmeisters fIREHOSE as well as a reunion set from post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Weekend passes have yet to go on sale for this year's Coachella, but you can check out the rest of the line-up on their website. Really though, who was asleep at the switch when they didn’t book the Black Keys, Black Lips, Black Angels and Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the same evening. It only makes sense.
Modeled after major long-running European festivals such as Denmark's Roskilde and England's Glastonbury, Coachella is coming off its second consecutive sellout year, hosting approximately 90 000 people per day. Tickets for the 2011 edition sold out in a record six days.
Pack up the Microbus Chester! We’re headed to California.
3 comments:
I need to start planning ahead and setting aside some of my lunch a year in advance!
This is an insanely amazing line up. I am also glad to see some solid Canuck representation courtesy Feist, Destroyer et al.
It's a veritable who's who of I wanna be there, even if Black Mountain, Black Francis, and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club weren't invited.
Matthew I could not a agree more. Attending that event could be positively life changing. Considering our Canadian winters too the plethora of Canuck acts on the bill is not surprising
Barbara We really need to go to this. After all, black is apparently "the new black".
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