Coachella 2013 lineup announced

The artist lineup has just been announced for the annual Coachella music and arts festival in the California desert. Wu Tang Clan, Jurassic 5, Sigur Rós, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Father John Misty, Beardyman, Café Tacvba, 3Ball MTY—should be a good one for all who can make it out there. I'll be home watching the live stream, and you can join me there. Poster below.

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bruceburbank

Yawn.

Also- while not as popular as many of those other artists, it’s criminal that Sparks are relegated to the fine print.
- niktemadur
  
  Two years ago, they did the same thing to Wire. To fucking WIRE, man!
  - L_Mariachi
    
    It’s a fucking travesty that the Red Hot Chili Peppers get the biggest type (in 2013?!?) and Lee Scratch Perry gets the smallest.
Antinous / Moderator

No hotel room in Cabazon this year, eh?
- niktemadur
  
  Any good hotels over at Bombay Beach in the Salton Sea?
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    That is strictly ‘bring your own moldy carpet remnant’.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Duanburge/100000313244887 Mark Duanburge
  
  Couchsurfing at Antinous’ pad, all Happy Mutants welcome!
penguinchris

Lou Reed and Johnny Marr were the names that caught my eye. Not sure what either of them might be like in concert these days though. I’d like to see Sigur Rós too, though I feel they’d be best in a relatively intimate old theater where their sound could really fill the place.

In all there’s nobody I’m dying to see, but it does look like there would be a lot to enjoy on all three days – the one time I went (2010) was pretty mixed, to my taste. Although, that can be good too because it enables you to wander around listening to things you haven’t heard of that you would miss if you plan out your day to listen to all the better-known bands.
http://twitter.com/Beaverbeaver Steve Olsen

The Headliners are kinda fucked up for me. I realize that is subjective…

Stoked for
Grimes, James Blake, Purity Ring, Postal Service, Passion Pit, Yeasayer
Engineer_

That’s a LOT of bands.
Glad to see some French bands out there too. (C2C from my hometown!)
http://darylfritz.com Daryl Fritz

Are the XX really deserving of a second-headliner spot? Over Postal Service?? Interesting to see How To Destroy Angels’ first live gig ever.
franko

so, basically, EVERYONE is playing?
http://twitter.com/dorkomatic Dorkomatic

Skinny Lister. Win.
foxtongue

A a friend on Facebook pointed out: The Sunday line up is kind of bitterly hilarious, though, considering it was Nick Cave who said “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
Pres

Bah. If I were in the US, I’d be looking forward to Electric Daisy Carnival!
pjcamp

Huh.

Why did I think this was going to have something to do with handbags?
Gerald Mander

I stopped going to Coachella years ago. Madonna and The Cure headlining an alternative music fest? Riiiight. They treated attendees like shit. Shade was conspicuously absent, water was expensive, public drinking facilities literally consisted of a hose, port-a-potties were in short supply, and the clear glee on the faces of Indio PD officers as they swarmed people for minor drug infractions was alarming.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  As a citizen of Palm Springs, I find the idea of anyone deliberately going to Indio hilarious.
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

Y’all are far too bitter. That line-up would have me making my way to any other state in Australia, and probably across to New Zealand. A flight too the US however…