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January 21, 2008

Coachella lineup announcement today in Mexico City...Portishead, Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, The Verve among early confirmations...

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Full lineup here:

The line-up for this year’s COACHELLA will feature:

FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang, Lucky I Am.

SATURDAY, APRIL 26: Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacuba, Sasha & Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars on Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noize, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty!, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJs (Surkin, Para One and Orgasmic), James Zabiela, Sebastian, Kavinsky, Dredg, The Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, Uffie

SUNDAY, APRIL 27: Roger Waters (“Dark Side of the Moon”), Love & Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dmitri from Paris, Autolux, The Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fav, The Cool Kids, Sons & Daughters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kids, Black Mountain, The Annuals, Kid Sister w/A-Trak, Man Man, Duffy, I’m from Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The Horrors, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Plastiscines, Brett Dennen

Tickets for COACHELLA go on sale Friday, January 25 at 10:00 AM (PT) via TicketMaster charge-by-phone lines at (213) 480–3232 and at all TicketMaster retail ticket centers or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices are as follows: 3-day general admission: $269.00 + applicable service fees. Single day general admission: $90.00 + applicable service fees. Camping events: General admission camping: $55.00 per person + applicable service fees.

LA Times Buzz Bands:

Prince, rumored to be one of the headliners at Coachella, will not play the festival, a source says.

Roger Waters will, reprising his “Dark Side of the Moon” show.

Here’s a partial roster as it is being announced in Mexico City this afternoon:

Roger Waters
The Verve
Portishead
The Raconteurs
My Morning Jacket
Rilo Kiley
Jack Johnson
Death Cab for Cutie
Kraftwerk
Justice
M.I.A.
Love & Rockets
The Breeders
Sasha & Digweed
Cafe Tacuba
Fatboy Slim

URB:

Portishead is confirmed to headline this year’s Coachella festival on Saturday night, according to a high-level source. The same source unequivocally denied rumors that Radiohead would appear at Coachella, but did confirm that the group would play the East Coast festival being planned by Coachella promoters Goldenvoice/AEG Live . The full Coachella line-up will be announced this Monday.

L.A. Times:

At a news conference scheduled for today, Tollett and his business partners, which include concert promotion giant AEG Live, plan to announce the full lineup for the ninth edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio this April. It will include the Verve, the Raconteurs, Jack Johnson, My Morning Jacket and Rilo Kiley.

Tollett is also planning to elaborate on his new venture in Jersey City, N.J.: a three-day August festival (reportedly headlined by Radiohead and Johnson) on a grassy expanse in 1,200-acre Liberty State Park that has a dramatic vista of the Manhattan skyline.

Today’s news conference is being staged neither in Indio nor in the Garden State, however. It’s in . . . Mexico City? Sure enough, although Tollett said he has “no plans right now” to launch a counterpart festival on the other side of the border, he also gushes about the surprising resonance of the Coachella brand with Mexican fans, artists and press. “It is something that’s crossed my mind,” he said in an interview.


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14 Comments

#1 uselessgoo says:

i hope the verve tours the u.s. and not just a one off.

#2 Deserted says:

Sure I wanna see the Verve.
But the Raconteurs? Over-toured/not that great. Jack Johnson? I mean, for anyone with decent musical taste, WHO CARES? My Morning Jacket? Good band, but if you're a fan you've seen 'em four times last year alone. And Rilo Kiley? Good for soundtracking bad sitcoms/short-form hospital dramedies. A SPIN cover does not put a band in superstar status (or even innovator status). More like, as Master N. Servant says, expression of "major lable" marketing dollars than artistic expression.
That's a long post to say "Who cares?" so far...

#3 Zarocat says:

That his huge. The Verve, Roger & Portishead.

You know what kind of crowd this will attract. It might be the most diverse to date.

Fucking brilliant!

#4 Smokin' Indio says:

Wow--that is the worst Coachella lineup yet.
BORING
BORING
BORING
Then again after last year's stellar one, only one way to go, right?
Pink Floyd, maybe--Roger Waters? NO.
The Verve (interesting but retro), Portishead (ain't the Pixies), Raconteurs (feh), Jack Johnson (sacrilege!), My Morning Jacket (could take off in this context, but ain't Radiohead), Rilo Kiley (superyawn), Fatboy Slim/Sasha/Digweed/Tacuba (MEGA yawn--what is this, 1997?), Justice (fantastic, but, um, didn't they play last year?), Death Cab (not inspiring live), M.I.A. (great but erratic), Breeders (see Portishead), Kraftwerk (always great but haven't we seen this before?), Love & Rockets (ain't no Jesus and Mary Chain)...
The worst thing is, other than Justice, My Morning Jacket , Kraftwerk and maybe M.I.A., none of these are really blow-your-mind live spectacles (unless the Verve really go deep like they used to...)

#5 jonas says:

Yeah very underwhelming lineup.

#6 Lollapacella says:

What, the Jonas Brothers weren't available?

#7 DIMITRI SUCKS! says:

DIMITRI FROM PARIS SUCKS BALLS!
WHERE IS HE PLAYING AT THE LEMONADE STAND?

#8 Terrible line-up says:

This is the worst grouping in Coachella's history.

Jack Johnson? haha what the hell?

#9 J Kent says:

jumping on the "worst lineup in years" bandwagon. There are still enough bands I like to get me to go, I'm just thoroughly unimpressed with what they're considering headliners.

#10 marty says:

Can anyone say Boring?? The only ones I would check out are Sasha and Digweed! The rest blows chunks!!

#11 MSG says:

Scroobius Pip and Uffie should have a steel cage, 'loser leaves town' match to decide once and for all who is the most atrocious act in Coachella history.

#12 Brad says:

Overall, it's not a bad line-up, but the really good acts are spread out among the 3 days, and it's not worth 300+ dollars to go see 15 bands over a three day period.

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