Coachella 2011

[el_chode]

Lineup:  http://www.coachella.com/event/lineup     

  Friday April 15 - KOL Headline

!!! 12th Planet Afrojack Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti A-Trak Beardyman Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Boys Noize Brandon Flowers Brandt Brauer Frick Breakage Caifanes Cee Lo Green Clare Maguire Cold Cave Cold War Kids Crystal Castles Cut Copy Emicida Erick Morillo Excision Flogging Molly Glasser G.Q. Gypsy and the Cat Here We Go Magic Hurts Interpol Jakes Kele Kings of Leon Klaxons Kyle Hall Magnetic Man Marina and the Diamonds Monarchy Mount Kimbie Moving Units Ms. Lauryn Hill Nosaj Thing OFWGKTA Omar Rodriguez Lopez Ozomatli Robyn Sander Kleinenberg Sasha Scala & Kolacny Bros. Skrillex Sleigh Bells Tame Impala The Aquabats The Black Keys The Chemical Brothers The Drums The Morning Benders The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Rural Alberta Advantage Titus Andronicus Warpaint

[el_chode]

  Saturday, April 16th - Arcade Fire Headline

Alf Alpha
    •    Andy C
    •    Animal Collective
    •    Arcade Fire
    •    Big Audio Dymamite
    •    Bomba Estereo
    •    Bright Eyes
    •    Broken Social Scene
    •    Cage the Elephant
    •    Chuckie
    •    Cults
    •    Daedelus
    •    Delta Sprirt
    •    DJ Hype
    •    DJ Kentaro
    •    DJ Marky
    •    EE
    •    Elbow
    •    Electric Touch
    •    Empire of the Sun
    •    Erykah Badu
    •    Fat Freddy's Drop
    •    Fedde Le Grand
    •    Foals
    •    Francis and the Lights
    •    Freelance Whales
    •    Gayngs
    •    Gogol Bordello
    •    Goth Trad
    •    Jimmy Eat World
    •    Joachim Garraud
    •    Laidback Luke
    •    Lil B' and the Based Gods
    •    Mariachi El Bronx
    •    Mary Anne Hobbs
    •    Mumford & Sons
    •    One Day as a Lion
    •    Paul van Dyk
    •    Phosphorescent
    •    Raphael Saadiq
    •    Ras G
    •    SBTRKT
    •    Scissor Sisters
    •    Shpongle
    •    Steve Angello
    •    Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
    •    The Felice Brothers
    •    The Henry Clay People
    •    The Joy Formidable
    •    The London Suede
    •    The Kills
    •    The Love Language
    •    The New Pornographers
    •    The Radio Dept.
    •    The Swell Season
    •    The Tallest Man on Earth
    •    The Twelves
    •    Trampled by Turtles
    •    Two Door Cinema Club
    •    Wire
Yacht

[el_chode]

Sunday, April 17th – Kanye/The Strokes (Split Headline)

•    Angus and Julia Stone
•    Axwell
•    Best Coast
•    Caspa
•    Chromeo
•    City and Colour
•    CSS
•    Death From Above 1979
•    Delorean
•    DJ Zinc
•    Duck Sauce
•    Duran Duran
•    Eliza Doolittle
•    Ellie Goulding
•    Fistful of Mercy
•    Foster the People
•    Fun.
•    Good Old War
•    Gord Downie
•    Green Velvet
•    HEALTH
•    High Contrast
•    Jack Beats
•    Jack's Mannequin
•    Jenny and Johnny
•    Joy Orbison
•    Kanye West
•    Kode9
•    Leftfield
•    Lightning Bolt
•    Lorn
•    Los Bunkers
•    Mala
•    MEN
•    Menomena
•    Nas & Damian Marley
•    Neon Trees
•    New Pants
•    OFF!
•    Phantogram
•    PJ Harvey
•    Plan B
•    Ramadanman
•    Ratatat
•    Riva Starr
•    Roska
•    Rye Rye
•    She Wants Revenge
•    Sven Vath
•    Take
•    Terror Danjah
•    The Bloody Beetroots
•    The National
•    The Presets
•    The Strokes
•    Thunderball
•    Trentemoller
•    Tinie Tempah
•    Tokimonsta
•    Twin Shadow
•    Wiz Khalifa
•    Yelle
•    Zed Bias

[he.who.forgets]

Pretty solid line-up imo, just not that big on the headliners.
Highlights for me would be:
Fistful of Mercy
PJ Harvey
The National
Animal Collective
Broken Social Scene
Delta Spirit
Elbow
Mumford & Sons
Raphael Saadiq
The Felice Bros
Tallest Man on Earth
Trampled by Turtles
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Cold War Kids
Flogging Molly
The Black Keys

[el_chode]

Pretty solid line-up imo, just not that big on the headliners.
Highlights for me would be:
Fistful of Mercy
PJ Harvey
The National
Animal Collective
Broken Social Scene
Delta Spirit
Elbow
Mumford & Sons
Raphael Saadiq
The Felice Bros
Tallest Man on Earth
Trampled by Turtles
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Cold War Kids
Flogging Molly
The Black Keys

I agree. The headliners are pretty weak for a festie that big. I'm surprised Kings of Leon didn't have some top 40 radio station festival to play their three songs over and over to a screaming audience of Justin Bieber fans.

[e_wind]

I'm not too impressed with it all in all. Headliners are terrible, and if they were ommited the fest would cost 150$ less. There are good bands, but nothing that really grabs me. The Black Keys, TMOE, Delta Spirit, Cold War Kids, a few others I can't remember. One thing I like seeing however, is Bright Eyes. Maybe they'll play Roo and we'll get som e M.O.F. action.

[e_wind]

And, when the fuck did Arcade Fire become Coachella-headling big? They're the third biggest band on the line up, but they don't have the stardom Kanye and KoL have.

[el_chode]

And, when the fuck did Arcade Fire become Coachella-headling big? They're the third biggest band on the line up, but they don't have the stardom Kanye and KoL have.

They've got momentum right now it seems, though I wasn't a fan of the Suburbs at all.

Black Keys should arguably be a headliner. At least they've got a lot more market penetration at this point with all the commercials.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

And, when the fuck did Arcade Fire become Coachella-headling big? They're the third biggest band on the line up, but they don't have the stardom Kanye and KoL have.

They're big enough. They also put on one Hell of a show.

[ALady]

This is a boring-ass lineup.  Headliners all headlined other American majors recently and the undercard is mostly last year's circuit as well.  Lots of great bands in there, but it's not put together in a compelling way at all IMO.

Though Coachella isn't generally up my alley (too much electronica for my liking) they usually do have a couple of really unique acts (Sly, Fever Ray, etc.).  Suede, DFA1979, and Big Audio Dynamite are nice, but not really "wow" level.

I honestly thought they'd snag Roxy Music. 

[Penny Lane]

I honestly thought they'd snag Roxy Music.

Come again? Whoa..didn't know they were touring..

[ALady]

They played some Japanese and Euro fests last year and have some UK/AUS/NZ dates for 2011.

[SaraBananaBear]

Robyn, Bright Eyes and The Black Keys, oooh nice and some Mumford & Sons and Tallest Man on Earth doesn't hurt either, I'd go if I could! Robyn will rock for sure, or pop, or whatever it is she does, it's all good  :D

[lucylew]

I must be tragically uncool as this looks like a yawn to me.  'Cept for the Black Keys.