This morning the line-up of the was made public for this year’ Coachella Music and Arts Festival—the epic three-day-long music event which takes place in southern California. Coachella rivals such festivals as the Glatonbury Festival in England and Lollapalooza in Chicago. Here’s a slightly tweaked version of the official flyer. I’ve rearranged the artists by relevance.
Friday The Specials • LCD Soundsystem • Erol Alkan • Proxy • Them Crooked Vultures • Vampire Weekend • Deadmau5 • Passion Pit • Jay-Z • Grizzly Bear • Echo and the Bunnymen • The Whitest Boy Alive • Fever Ray • Grace Jones • Aeroplane • La Roux • Wolfgang Gartner • Public Image Limited • The Avett Brothers • Iglu and Marty • Ra Ra Riot • The Dillinger Escape Plan • Ceu • The Cribs • Yeasayer • Lucero • DJ Lance Rock • Dear Tick • Calle 13 • Sleigh Bells • P.O.S. • Baroness • Hockey • Little Dragon • Wale • Kate Miller Heldke • As Tall As Lions • Jets Overhead • Alana Grace • Pablo Hassan
Saturday Devo • Les Claypool • MGMT • 2ManyDJ’s • Hot Chip • Flying Lotus • the xx • Major Lazer • Gossip • Faith No More • Muse • Bassnectar • Z-Trip • Shooter Jennings • Porcupine Tree • Mew • Dirty Projectors • David Guetta • Craze & Klever • Sia • the Raveonettes • John Water • Dirty South • Portugal the Man • Tokyo Police Club • Camera Obscura • Coheed and Cambria • Old Crow Medicine Show • Edwin Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros • Corinne Baily Rae • Pretty Lights • RX Bandits • Almighty Defenders • Kaskade • Beach House • Steel Train • Dirty South • Frank Turner • Band oF Skulls • the Temper Trap • Zoe • White Rabbits • Tiesto • Aterciopelades
Sunday Sly and the Family Stone • Thom Yorke ????? • Club 75 • Phoenix • De La Soul • Rusko • Pavement • Yann Tiersen • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Gorillaz • Spoon • Hadouken! • the Glitch Mob • Miike Snow • Little Boots • Yo La Tengo • Deerhunter • Paparazzi • Orbital • Julian Casablancas • Plastikman • Gary Numan • Jonsi • Sunny Day Real Estate • MUTEMATH • Infected Mushroom • Mat & Kim • the Big Pink • Gil Scott-Heron • King Khan and the Shrines • Florence and the Machine • Delphic • Talvin Singh • B.o.B. • Babasonicos • Dwen Pallett • Mayer Hawthorne • Local Natives • the Middle East • the Soft Pack • Devin Devine • One EskimO
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Also announced today was the confirmation of yet another year of the Music Loves Fashion weekend which will take place at the same time as Coachella. We’ll have more information for you when it’s available.
Here’s the teaser video of the Music Loves Fashion 2010 event at the Riviera.
We wish you all a happy new year. For those of you in Los Angeles tonight, prepare for a night of mayhem if you choose to countdown at HARD NEW YEARS EVE at the Palladium. If you’re still undecided on what to do tonight, click the link below.
It has been a year since Control has been going on every Friday at Avalon. It has monopolized the electro-house music scene since day one and almost every performance as been a memorable one. To kick off the one-year anniversary, check out a performance by one of the biggest names in the house music Armand Van Helden! Being part of Duck Sauce with A-Trak, AVH brings you some of the finest beats that have hit #1 in UK Charts and all over the world! Be there!
Listen to the original sample used for Duck Sauce’s hit aNYway!
Come to Control at Avalon this Friday night to check out dub-step guru Rusko! There will also be performances by 12th Planet, T-Long, and resident DJ Mr. White.
Stay tuned for upcoming performances at Control by:
11/27: Breakbot
12/04: AC Slater, DJ Craze, Mr. White
12/11: Etienne De Crecy
12/18: Armand Van Helden, Mr. White, James Monroe
Check out Control to see a rare, first-ever US performance by Ed Banger’s latest signee, Breakbot! From funky basslines to cut-up distorted beats, Breakbot has it all in store for you this Friday!
This Friday, catch DJ sets by Klever and Bird Peterson at Control. Discotheque will feature a DJ set by Chromeo, performing their DJ-Kicks mix, including sets by Mike B and Paul Devro.
If you’re out in New York, saturday is HARD NYC, where Crookers, Rusko, Major Lazer, Jack Beats, and Destructo will be tearing up the stage with the best bangin’ beats. Can’t afford to miss the first ever Hard Festival in New York…
