Paul McCartney, The Killers, and The Cure are atop the seemingly eternally delayed lineup (OK it was only like a week tops, but still) for the California festival Coachella, which takes place April 17-19. Also on the bill: Morrissey, Leonard Cohen, My Bloody Valentine, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, X, TV On The Radio, and Ida Maria. And Amy Winehouse, for real! Full roster, broken down by day, after the jump.
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.
And here is the poster, for those of you who like commemorative items:
Now for the debate over whether or not all the hand-wringing was worth it, which should last well past the moment when tickets go on sale later today (noon ET/9 a.m. PT)!
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@Rory B. Bellows: It’s the Colbert Bump(TM).
Are peeps really bitching about McCartney? Really? He’s a Beatle! And his ’solo’ shows are basically a Beatles retrospective fronted by Sir Paul with the best cover band money can buy.
X, Fucked Up, Gaslight Anthem, The Night Marchers (ex-RFTC), Paul Weller, not to mention the Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Throbbing Gristle…
Sunday is for the punx, yo.
Wonder if Macca’s going to drag Dave Grohl out for a song or two. Probably not, I’m guessing.
You know, I feel like they’re gonna announce another big headliner for Saturday close to the show.
Hey what do you know, guys? Bruce has 6 days off after his LA show, and they’re smack dab the weekend of Coachella! What a coincidence!
1. Friday is definitely old dude day.
2. Wagers starting now on whether Winehouse actually shows up…
3. Is Zizek the name of a band, or does that mean philosophy/lit crit rock star Slavoj Zizek will be on hand giving a lecture?
4. What’s up with how low down on their respective lists some bands show up - the Hold Steady, Liars, Okkervil River? Are groups like the Tings Tings, Glasvegas, and Groove Armada really more popular?
no britney u_u
@Maura Johnston: Amy Winehouse is kind of hipster Britney.
@Nunya B: I’m freaking banking on it!
@Nunya B: I’m freaking banking on it!
They had me at LEONARD (flippin’) COHEN!!! Um, HELLO?!?
OK, sorry. I’m just excited. Add Superchunk, Throbbing Gristle(!!!) and the thought that McCartney might just decide to kill everybody by pulling out the best of Wings has me getting the tires checked and booking a hotel for Indio. It’s on in the desert, yo!
They had me at LEONARD (flippin’) COHEN!!! Um, HELLO?!?
OK, sorry. I’m just excited. Add Superchunk, Throbbing Gristle(!!!) and the thought that McCartney might just decide to kill everybody by pulling out the best of Wings has me getting the tires checked and booking a hotel for Indio. It’s on in the desert, yo!
Interesting how Billy Talent is in there. They…really don’t fit but good for the festival organizers for changing it up just the slightest.
Interesting– a really solid lineup, but nothing that blows me away.
Cure and Killers are fairly weak headliners– particularly compared to the rumors of the last week, when when the delay meant people had nothing else to do but speculate (Pavement, Bowie as Ziggy etc).
But there are a lot of solid sub-headliners: Cohen, MBV, Morrissey.
Wonder how much McCartney cost…
Blitzen Trapper… if I wanted to see Tom Petty, I’d see Tom Petty. No matter, doubting I’d make the trek.
I think I’d be most excited for Los Campesinos!, but only because I’ve just recently discovered them. I’m thinking that is a shame.
Overall though I like the look of it.
huh, no Blur. I guess my trip is off since I just got Morrissey tickets and I saw MBV last September.
Oh well, It’s probably for the best.
Yeah, definitely seems like a bunch of thoroughly solid undercards, with three fairly meh headliners. Which is kind of disappointing, since I was hoping for an excuse to take an absurdly impractical trip to CA this year. Alas!
That said, fuck yeah Aggrolites.
Superchunk! Superchunk! Superchunk!
(I know they’ve played your McCarren Pool and whatnot in recent years, but they haven’t been anywhere near me in a decade or so.)
just a guess but i’d bet another big name is added as a Sat. headliner or co-headliner because while Amy Winehouse/Killers/TV On The Radio is a solid lineup none of them are exactly giant “gets” …
It’s interesting how the number of electronic acts and billed DJs has dwindled since the begining of the decade.
@A Roach: If this is the Killers only So-Cal show, that’s a pretty big “get” considering the tour they are currently on has been selling out arenas pretty swiftly.
It always amazes me how these festivals that I ostensibly am right in the target demographic for can book something like 50 bands, out of which there are maybe 3 that I’ve ever owned albums by.
@Dan Gibson: Yeah, Superchunk is definitely the only band I’d be remotely excited to see. Hopefully this isn’t a one-off and gives me hope for at least a string of east coast dates this year.
Throbbing Gristle….now that should separate the adults from the children!
Very “meh” for my personal taste, love my Sebastien Tellier and my Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but nothing else brings the screaming music fan-gotta-go-see-them in me. :(
I’m curious to see if the crowd is into the Clipse.
I’d love to go but I can’t justify the cost
@2ironic4u: the tour they are currently on has been selling out arenas pretty swiftly
Good god, don’t depress me like that.
Anyway, never thought I’d be missing an MBV show in SoCal but there you go; that said I’ll be up in Seattle for the EMP Pop Conference so it was all out of my hands anyway! (I’m sure I’ll get all sorts of twitters about the set.)
Fuck me in the ass, the NYC area needs some big-ass festivals. We’ve got our Sirens and whatnot, but damnit, I want YYY, Ting Tings, Ida, Killers, MSTRKRFT, PE, Hold Steady, Henry Rollins, etc. etc. etc. on one bill! That’s just goddamn ridiculous.
Also, Shephard Fairey is on the bill… does he do music, too?
GET WHELMED.
So has Paul McCartney now come full circle where he has hipster cred for being underestimated as a solo artist?
How long until the rumors start that Ringo is playing drums, making it a reunion of the living Beatles. I hear they are playing Sgt. Peppers in its entirety.
But what do Stereogum commenters think about the line up?
@catdirt: They think?
@TheRunningboard7:
Saw Los Campesinos! last night, actually. Their live show is great at capturing the delightful anarchy on their records. Go see ‘em!
@kicking222: NYC-area festivals have proven, time and time again, that it for whatever reason does not work here. Case in point: Across The Narrows, Field Day, All Points West (only one day sold out).
@Ned Raggett: Yes, The Killers are pretty much second to Coldplay in that act that young professionals, teens, people who might kind of consider themselves indie compared to the yuppie friends, etc. listen to AND will go see live.
@Ted Striker: !!! Feb 3 in Lawrence!! (and with Titus Andronicus.. not too shabby). I’ll make the .5 hr. drive.
I want to type this in all caps: Do you think there is any chance that Antony will show up and sing with H&LA?
Throbbing Gristle on the bill is a stroke of genius or whimsy or both.
@2ironic4u: I will think of this knowledge in the sense of ‘well if it keeps them busy and away from me’ (as one might think of child care if one is a harried parent — perhaps).
Paul McCartney = Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I don’t know, I think the Cure are pretty great headliners. No one talks about it much but there are few bands that put on a live show like the Cure. They’re kind of like the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band, only for the smeared mascara set.
the Sunday lineup wins in a landslide.
You know what would be better than Mike Patton & Rahzel? Patton Oswalt & Rahzel.
@chaircrusher: I agree but at the same time Cure festival sets aren’t standalone Cure live sets — with the former they tend to focus on a fairly standard selection of the hits/classics with a small handful of newer or obscure songs, whereas the latter is when you can get the 2 1/2 or 3 hour “let’s see how long we can make THIS version of ‘A Forest’” deals.
you poor, misguided naysayers. I WANT TO GO!
@Nunya B: omg. that would be amazing. dizzee rascal did it when basement jaxx played several years ago. (and no b jaxx this year. sad face)
@Maura Johnston: wait for it.
I’d love to see the expression on the sound guy’s face when reading the audio specs for MBV and TG.
@Chris Barrus: At the end of all that there probably won’t be a face. Or even a head.
@kicking222: “Also, Shephard Fairey is on the bill… does he do music, too?”
I’ve heard of him doing DJ sets at art openings. That could be what he’s doing, I guess
T’Challa - McCartney, Cohen and Superchunk are 3 of my all time favorites EVER. I’m with you.
Did anyone read the Cohen Glastonbury reviews? Now how exactly am I going to get there from Chicago??
@NoWireHangers:
Paul McCartney - YEEEEESSSSS!!!!