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Coachella unveils loaded lineup
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
January 22, 2008 at 10:54:00 AM | more stories by this author

Roger Waters, Jack Johnson, and Portishead to headline desert music fest April 25-27; Verve, Raconteurs, Kraftwerk, Death Cab, Love and Rockets, and My Morning Jacket also on board.

The 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival unveiled its bountiful lineup yesterday, and while it included one seminal British group that hasn't been heard from in a decade, it wasn't the one many were expecting.

Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons

With much of the pre-Coachella buzz centering on the recently reunited My Bloody Valentine, the lineup includes pioneering trip-hop group Portishead, which plans to release its first album in more than 10 years this April.

Jack Johnson and former Pink Floyd principal Roger Waters will serve as headliners on the other two days of the event, to be held April 25-27 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. The top of the bill also includes the Verve, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Cafe Tacuba, and the Jack White-fronted Raconteurs.

The Breeders, the reunited Love And Rockets, Justice, Tegan and Sara, the National, Dwight Yoakam, Rilo Kiley, Justice, M.I.A., Sasha & Digweed, Fatboy Slim, Hot Chip, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Madness, and Battles are also on the bill, which was revealed in Mexico City. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Coachella will be the first US appearance in years for several bands. Portishead will be its first on American soil in nearly a decade, while the Verve will be performing in the US for the first time since 1999.

Coachella promoter AEG Live/Goldenvoice also said yesterday that it is launching All Points West, a new festival to be held in New Jersey's Liberty State Park on Aug. 8-10; Radiohead has been tipped by sources as one of the headliners.

The full lineup for the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival:


April 25:
Jack Johnson, the Verve, Raconteurs, the Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan & Sara, Madness, the Swell Season, the National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does It Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, the Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang, Lucky I Am


April 26:
Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacuba, Sasha & Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars on Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noize, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty!, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJs (Surkin, Para One, and Orgasmic), James Zabiela, Sebastian, Kavinsky, Dredg, The Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, Uffie


April 27:
Roger Waters, Love & Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, the Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dmitri from Paris, Autolux, the Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fav, The Cool Kids, Sons & Daughters, Sia, Holy F*ck, Black Kids, Black Mountain, the Annuals, Kid Sister w/A-Trak, Man Man, Duffy, I'm from Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, the Horrors, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Plastiscines, Brett Dennen

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very clearly expressed information
Posted 11/07/2009 4:57pm
Ou est l'hotel?
Posted 05/30/2009 8:33am
J'aimerais mieux te connaitre.
Posted 05/29/2009 2:12am
nice layout, the best
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Spirrrrritualizedddddd!
Posted 01/23/2008 11:38am
Eclectic lineup as always, but does anyone else think Jack Johnson as headliner is an awful choice? yeah, he's popular, but way too mellow and not at all a dynamic performer. I could think of a hundred better options.
Posted 01/22/2008 1:04pm
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