FRIDAY APRIL 17: 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, APRIL 18: 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, APRIL 19: 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.
Coachella is an annual event held in Indio,California and the reason I've posted the full lineup is because its just too bloody amazing to not be posted.A 3-day pass costs $269 USD,whereas a single-day pass costs $99 USD.Breaks my heart to see this-I mean,C'MON-this is more or less what we've had/will be having Down Under:
Big Day Out-$140 AUSD/$90 USD-a blowup of boring has-beens like Neil Young and the Arctic Monkeys,but a nice mix of fresh indie stuff from Hot Chip,TV on the Radio,Ting Tings.Fucked schedule meant the big names clashed,stages were small and the venue: Flemington Racecourse is a bare,dried-up dump.50% of the space there was filled with stores selling junk and circus rides,they could've at least made bigger stages (two of the biggest stages were exactly side by side).
V Fest-also $140 AUSD/$90 USD-Snow Patrol,Kaiser Chiefs,Killers and Duffy headline.A huge excess of bands you've never heard of come with the illogically expensive price tag.
St Laneway Fest-$99 AUSD-last year we had Feist and a bunch of goodies,this year noone even worth mentioning.The line-up's like 100 bands long,you'd spot about 4 or 5 you think you've heard of before-and the rest I'm sure are completely fictional.
And of course we have Future Music festival (which,shockingly,has a pretty decent lineup including Pharell & Basement Jaxx),but most of the big events held in Australia have miserable lineups with tickets priced far beyond their worth.They must think we're idiots to pay that much for a half-assed job.I understand to bring over even a single band and their entourage would be costly,especially with the weakening economy and all.Still,look at the Coachella line-up and I'm sure some of you would be pissed a little.
*the good bit is that this probably means the YYYs are ready to tour,and its likely they'll be dropping by.
(via WBOTLB)
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