Three days of non-stop jams, unrelenting heat and terrible cell-phone reception can only mean one thing: Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival — the event of the year for any music fan.
After months of anticipation, the lineup for the 2011 festival — to take place April 15, 16 and 17 — was finally announced on Tuesday night. While it doesn’t include rumored artists like the Beastie Boys and Daft Punk, it does include modern mainstays Kings Of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West and the Strokes as headliners, along with artists as diverse as Lauryn Hill and Animal Collective rounding out the bill.
Three-day passes for the festival are available for $269 each (plus fees). You can find more information on Coachella’s website here.
Will you be making the trek from San Diego to Indio? Is Kanye enough to make you brave the shower-less weekend, or will you be staying behind to study for midterms?
We won’t try to convince you either way; the lineup (listed below, in alphabetical order by day) speaks for itself.
Jan 22 Update: Car camping passes have already sold out.
Friday April 15
!!!, 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, Gayngs, Glasser, G.Q., Gypsy and the Cat, Hurts, Interpol, Jakes, Kele, Kings Of Leon, Klaxons, Kyle Hall, Magnetic Man, Marina and the Diamonds, Monarchy, Mount Kimble, 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, YACHT
Saturday April 16
Alf Alpha, Andy C, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Big Audio Dynamite, Bomba Estereo, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Cage the Elephant, Chuckie, Cults, Daedelus, Delta Spirit, 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, Gogol Bordello, Goth Trad, Here We Go Magic, Joachim Garraud, Laidback Luke, Lil’ B and the Based God, Mariachi El Bronx, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mumford & Sons, One Day as a Lion, Paul van Dyk, Phosphorescent, Raphael Saadig, Ras G, SBTRKT, Scissor Sisters, Shpongle presents the Shpongletron Experience, Steve Angello, Thao with 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, Yelle
Sunday April 17
Angus and Julia Stone, Axwell, Best Coast, Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Caspa, Chromeo, City and Colour, CSS, Death From Above 1979, Delorean, DJ Zinc, Duck Sauce, Duran Duran, 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, Jimmy Eat World, Leftfield, Lightning Bolt, Lorn, Los Bunkers, 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 National, The Presets, The Strokes, Thunderball, Trentemoller, Tinie Tempah, Tokimonsta, Twin Shadow, Wiz Khalifa, Zed Bias
