Coachella 2012 Lineup Announced: Radiohead, The Black Keys, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to Headline
The full lineup for the annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival set to take place in California in April has been announced, with bands Radiohead, The Black Keys and rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg slated to headline each night.
The festival, which brings together some of the top musical acts in the world at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, just outside of Palm Springs, is also know for hosting the reunion of bands and musical outfits that have split up. This year's festival is no exception, as post-hardcore band At the Drive-In, Swedish hardcore punk band Refused and 1980s alternative rock band fIREHOSE have all reformed for to play the fest.
For the first time this year the increasingly popular festival, which has become a worldwide destination event, will take place over two weekends: April 13-15 and April 20-22. Each weekend will have identical lineups, and currently only weekend passes are available, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Tickets for the festival, which takes place across five stages at set up at the polo club, have gone up in price since the first event in 1993. This year a three day pass will cost approximately $315, with prices exceeding $1300 for the full VIP experience.
Other bands set to take the stage at the festival in April include recent Record of the Year Grammy nominee Bon Iver, hit maker Florence + the Machine, and the recently reunited Britpop favorites Pulp, amongst dozens of other acts set to perform each day.
Full Line Up:
Friday, April 13, 20 Alesso Amon Tobin Arctic Monkeys Atari Teenage Riot Band of Skulls Breakbot Cat Power Datsik Dawes Death Grips EMA Explosions in the Sky Feed Me Frank Ocean GIRLS GIVERS Hello Seahorse! honeyhoney James Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong Kendrick Lamar LA Riots M83 Madeon Madness Manchester Orchestra Mazzy Star Neon Indian Other Lives Pulp R3hab Refused Sean Kuti & Egypt 80 Swedish House Mafia The Black Angels The Black Keys The Dear Hunter The Horrors The Midnight Beast The Rapture The Sheepdogs Wolf Gang WU LYF Ximena Sarinana Yuck
Saturday, April 14, 21 A$AP Rocky Andrew Bird AWOLNATION Azealia Banks Black Lips Bon Iver Borgore Buzzcocks Childish Gambino David Guetta Destroyer Destructo Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Feist fIREHOSE Flying Lotus Gary Clark Jr. Godspeed You! Black Emperor Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Grouplove Jacques Lu Cont Jeff Mangum Kaiser Chiefs Kasabian Kaskade Keep Shelly in Athens Laura Marling M. Ward Martin Solveig Miike Snow Mt Eden Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Pure Filth Sound Radiohead SBTRKT SebastiAn Squeeze St. Vincent Sub Focus Suedehead The Big Pink The Head and the Heart The Shins The Vaccines tUnE-yArDs We are Augustines We Were Promised Jetpacks Zeds Dead
Sunday, April 15, 22 AraabMUZIK At The Drive-In AVICII Beats Antique Beirut Calvin Harris Company Flow Dada Life DJ Shadow Dragonette Fanfarlo First Aid Kit Fitz and the Tantrums Florence and the Machine Flux Pavilion & Dr. P Gardens & Villa Girl Talk Gotye Greg Ginn Housse de Racket Justice La Roux Lissie Metronomy Modeselektor Morgan Page Nero NOISI? Oberhofer Porter Robinson Real Estate SantiGold Sebastian Ingrosso Sleeper Agent Spector The Gaslamp Killer The Growlers The Hives The Weeknd Wild Beasts Wild Flag Zedd
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