Drool Alert: Coachella Lineup

01/30/09 12:20pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Paul McCartney, The Killers and The Cure will headline the April 17 to 19 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

The lineup also includes Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, My Bloody Valentine (who were rumoured to play last year's festival, but didn't), Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, TV On The Radio, Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band, Band Of Horses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fleet Foxes and The Hold Steady.

Coachella also includes plenty of Canadian content, with Fucked Up, Billy Talent, Crystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, K'Naan and Junior Boys slated to play. More information is available on the festival's website.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased through the Coachella website or Ticketmaster. Three-day passes will run you $269 U.S. (about $328 Canadian), and you can buy single day passes for $99 U.S. If you can't afford a three-day pass right away, you can put it on a layaway plan.

Here are the artists playing this year's Coachella festival:

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
TRAVI$DJ-AM
Henry Rollins
Crookers
Turbonegro
Hercules And Love Affair
Superchunk
Glasvegas
Dr. Dog
Drive-By Truckers
Brooker T & The DBT's
Amanda Palmer
The Bloody Beetroots
Surkin, Para One
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 And 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
Friendly Fires
The Gaslight Anthem
The Knux
Mexican Institute Of Sound
The Night Marchers
Marshall Barnes