Coachella Line-up, Tickets Go On Sale Today

Tickets go on sale today at 10 AM for Coachella, one of the largest music fests to take place in the nation. The line-up for the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were just announced this week. Headliners are Pavement, "Thom Yorke????" (Radiohead, possibly?), Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Tiësto, Faith No More, Deadmau5, David Guetta, MGMT and Public Image Limited.  The festival takes place April 16 to April 18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, the same grounds where the festival started in 1999. The full line-up is listed below. 

Festival goers will have the ability to purchase 3-day festival tickets and various onsite camping options via an easy layaway payment plan.  The expanded camping options, including car, RV and traditional tent camping, will allow, for the first time, in-and-out privileges for all attendees. Tickets can be had at all Ticketmaster locations as well as the Coachella web site. Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges.  More details on layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information can also be found on their web site.

Here's our top shows with a selected track and the rest of the line-up:

FRIDAY APRIL 16:  
Other Performers: Jay-Z, Them Crooked Vultures, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Grace Jones, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, La Roux, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, and Pablo Hassan.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17:  
Other Performers: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, David Guetta, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ's, Major Lazer,  Gossip, Z-Trip, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Sia, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Steel Train, and Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18:  
Other Performers: Orbital, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Sunny Day Real Estate, MUTEMATH, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Yann Tiersen, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, and One EskimO.

With over 130 acts, it's going to be quite an event!


Enjoy, GB

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