It may be still in the middle of the North American winter, but Summer Festival season just got started. Sure, technically it's still mid-Spring when the musical world descends upon the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California for the increasingly humungazoid Coachella Festival, but, good lord, that California desert can get hot.
The 2010 lineup for Coachella has just been announced, effectively kicking off a run of hot and sweaty festivals. And it's suitably big; with Jay-Z, Gorillaz, Faith No More, Them Crooked Vultures, and Muse at the top of the marquee. Of course, those aren't the names that interest us. Go further down the bill —and you can witness the full lineup at the Coachella website— and you'll find plenty of familiar folk.
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Friday: Vampire Weekend, Public Image Ltd., Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Fever Ray, She & Him, Yeasayer, Whitest Boy Alive, White Rabbits, Ra Ra Riot, Sleigh Bells
Saturday: MGMT, Dirty Projectors, The Dead Weather, the Raveonettes, Mew, Gossip, The XX, Hot Chip, Camera Obscura, Beach House, Girls, Frightened Rabbit
Sunday: Pavement, Thom Yorke, Julian Casablancas, Phoenix, Sunny Day Real Estate, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, Jónsi, the Big Pink, the Soft Pack, Local Natives, the Middle East, Owen Pallett
Coachella takes place from April 16-18, and, if you're going, try not to get too sunburnt.
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