The lineup for the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California has finally been announced and promises to leave no one disappointed.
Heading up the massive list of artists are Paul McCartney, The Killers, and The Cure. The festival takes place on April 17-19 and will be divided evenly between that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. McCartney will be headlining the Friday night slot alongside Morrissey and Franz Ferdinand. Saturday night will be fronted by The Killers with Amy Winehouse and Thievery Corporation. Finally the festival will wrap up on Sunday with headliners The Cure being supported by My Bloody Valentine and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Of course that’s not all you get when you go to
Coachella. Along with the bigger bands mentioned above there will be a second stage where dozens and dozens of smaller acts will be playing over the course of the weekend. These include the
Black Keys,
Lupe Fiasco,
Public Enemy, and
TRAV$DJ-AM.
The full roster of acts is as follows:
Friday: Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Beirut, The Black Keys, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, The Ting Tings, The Crystal Method, Ghostland Observatory, Crystal Castles, The Airborne Toxic Event, We Are Scientists, N.A.S.A., Patton & Rahzel, M. Ward, The Presets, The Hold Steady, A Place to Bury Strangers, Felix da Housecat, Buraka Som Sistema, Ryan Bingham, Bajofondo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Noah & the Whale, White Lies, The Bug, Alberta Cross, Los Campesinos!, Craze & Klever, Molotov, Switch, Gui Boratto, Steve Aoki, The Aggrolites, People Under the Stairs, The Courteeners, Cage the Elephant, Dear and the Headlights.
Saturday: The Killers, Amy Winehouse, Thievery Corporation, TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Atmosphere, Mastodon, TRAV$DJ-AM, Henry Rollins, Crookers, Turbonegro, Hercules and Love Affair, Superchunk, Glasvegas, Dr. Dog, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T & the DBT’s, Amanda Palmer, The Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Para One (Live), Calexico, Liars, Bob Mould Band, Zane Lowe, Electric Touch, Blitzen Trapper, James Morrison, Drop the Lime, Glass Candy, Thenewno2, Gang Gang Dance, Billy Talent, Ida Maria, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Zizek, Cloud Cult, Tinariwen.
Sunday: The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Throbbing Gristle, Lupe Fiasco, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, X, Antony & the Johnsons, Roni Size, Public Enemy, Jenny Lewis, Groove Armada, Paolo Nutini, Christopher Lawrence, Lykke Li, The Kills, Okkervil River, M.A.N.D.Y., Clipse, Sebastien Tellier, Fucked Up, Perry Farrell, The Horrors, Late of the Pier, K’naan, Junior Boys, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Supermayer, No Age, Vivian Girls, Shepard Fairey, Themselves, Gaslight Anthem, The Knux, Mexican Institute of Sound, The Night Marchers, Marshall Barnes.
The Coachella Festival begins on April 17 and lasts through April 19. Tickets are currently on sale here at $269.00 for a 3-day pass and $99.00 for a single day pass. Coachella is also offering a layaway program for tickets that will allow hopeful buyers to pay for their tickets in installments rather than all at the same time. However, all layaway orders need to be completed before February 28, 2009.
Report by David Lowe-Bianco.
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