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This year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is reconnecting with its inner hipster.
After booking classic-rock headliners like Roger Waters, Paul McCartney and Prince over the past couple of years, the festival is returning to its edgier ways in 2010, with a lineup topped by rap superstar Jay-Z, British art-rockers Muse and Damon Albarn's cartoon-rock ensemble Gorillaz.
Other notable acts on the mid-April bill: Them Crooked Vultures, the supergroup of QOTSA's Josh Homme, Foo Fighters's Dave Grohl and Led Zep's John Paul Jones; college rockers Vampire Weekend; Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke; Jack White's latest side project The Dead Weather; Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas; synth-rockers MGMT and more (see full list below).
The roster is also heavy on reunion tours, with appearances by slacker-rock ensemble Pavement; Public Image Limited, led by former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon (ne Rotten); new wave spud-boys Devo; emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate; hip-hoppers De La Soul; rockers Faith No More; ska legends The Specials; and even '60s funk icons Sly and the Family Stone.
This year's Coachella festival runs from April 16-18 in Indio, Calif., about 200 kilometres east of Los Angeles. Three-day general admission passes cost $269 and go on sale Jan. 22. See www.coachella.com for more info.
FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiesto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ's, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.
SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.
