myspace coachella information

[scoop49er]

The reunion of Zack de la Rocha and his bandmates after a seven-year hitaus might be all the Rage, but pop fans will be just as excited by the news that Crowded House is re-forming and will play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Front man Neil Finn and bassist Nick Seymour are beginning the search for a drummer to replace Paul Hester, who committed suicide two year ago.

In a story running in the Times on Monday, my colleague Geoff Boucher reports that Rage Against the Machine will join the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, the Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Sonic Youth, the Arctic Monkeys and Air at this installment of Coachella. Who will play which day has yet to be determined. Tickets for the three-day festival (April 27-29) go on sale Saturday.

As usual, Los Angeles will be well-represented -- with Satellite Party (the new project from Perry Farrell) and artists such as Silversun Pickups, Busdriver and Ozomatli lined up to play, according to a variety of sources. The contingent of English bands is also characteristically strong.

Most anticipated? Maybe Damon Albarn's new band, the Good the Bad and the Queen, which features bassist Paul Simonon (the Clash), guitarist Simon Tong (the Verve) and drummer Tony Allen (Fela Kuti).

Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker will be at Coachella too, touring behind a strong solo release. Up-and-comers the Kooks and the Cribs are on the bill, as are soft-rockers the Feeling and -- in the Whatever Happened To Dept. -- Travis.

More names as we learn them. Nothing on the official Coachella website or on the fest's MySpace yet.

[matsuolost]

JARVIS COCKER?

[summerkid]

where is this from?

[Boourns]

Source of this information?

JARVIS COCKER? If this is true, I have gone from being slightly underwhelmed to being OVERLY EXCITED! HELL YES!

[foocow]

this is just getting too intense. TRAVIS?! WTF. i had no idea they were still around!

[boyalien0]

you can link to it from the la times article

[york707]

Travis.


Ha.


I'll stop by to see them for a second.

[boyalien0]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/buzzbands/

[summerkid]

oh god jarvis cocker this lineup is insane!!!

[idrive1life]

Jarvis Cocker, The Kooks and The Cribs, Travis

now am getting really more excited

[newalias]

jarvis cocker has vocals on air's new album.

i think he will be going solo and will be on stage with air.

[menikmati]

i need some dance headliner names...

[blastyourears]

SONIC YOUTH!!

[boyalien0]

yeah, there is a very interesting lack of Sahara headliners. Like, as in 3 of them.

[summerkid]

we have one....Tiesto.

[Kiefer]

just....wow!

[boyalien0]

did tiesto headline the sahara when they played in 02?

[menikmati]

tiesto is lackluster

[menikmati]

VNV nation gonna be in the tent?

[matsuolost]

i saw tiesto twice last year .i hope hes not the biggest electronic act

[daftwerk]

I've seen tiesto a couple times in Mexico and his sets are solid. Nothing amazing tho. When he did tiesto in concert in la it was a pretty amazing set up for just one dj in an arena in the us.

[xbnmx]

Both Tiesto and Van Dyk have played the Sahara before and never headlined, so I'm not sure Tiesto will be closing the tent this year. Myabe if he does a live gig like he is for the WMC, I just hope not.

[erselone]

HOT CHIP...enough said.....just watch as the tents goes insane during their set...A must see

[Peabs42177]

Hot Chip were killer on a side stage with lackluster sound at Lollapalooza last year. I can only imagine how great a set in the Sahara will be.

[menikmati]

pvd did close the tent in 2004

[TickleMeElmo]

Tiesto will without a doubt close one night in the Sahara.

[Yablonowitz]

Umm...hello everybody...Damon Albarn's band?!

[york707]

I bet they're on the outdoor stage

[airguitarvet]

i posted some info and they deleted my message.

[delibot3029]

The reunion of Zack de la Rocha and his bandmates after a seven-year hitaus might be all the Rage, but pop fans will be just as excited by the news that Crowded House is re-forming and will play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Front man Neil Finn and bassist Nick Seymour are beginning the search for a drummer to replace Paul Hester, who committed suicide two year ago.

In a story running in the Times on Monday, my colleague Geoff Boucher reports that Rage Against the Machine will join the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, the Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Sonic Youth, the Arctic Monkeys and Air at this installment of Coachella. Who will play which day has yet to be determined. Tickets for the three-day festival (April 27-29) go on sale Saturday.

As usual, Los Angeles will be well-represented -- with Satellite Party (the new project from Perry Farrell) and artists such as Silversun Pickups, Busdriver and Ozomatli lined up to play, according to a variety of sources. The contingent of English bands is also characteristically strong.

Most anticipated? Maybe Damon Albarn's new band, the Good the Bad and the Queen, which features bassist Paul Simonon (the Clash), guitarist Simon Tong (the Verve) and drummer Tony Allen (Fela Kuti).

Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker will be at Coachella too, touring behind a strong solo release. Up-and-comers the Kooks and the Cribs are on the bill, as are soft-rockers the Feeling and -- in the Whatever Happened To Dept. -- Travis.

More names as we learn them. Nothing on the official Coachella website or on the fest's MySpace yet.

Travis, Jarvis Cocker, The Cribs, and Damon Albarn's latest in the same festival, I have quite some excitement now. Hopefully, there won't be some bad idea like a British stage (presented by NME, who wants to tap into the American market--i.e. Club NME at Spaceland). With good talent at a music festival, the bad stuff (The Kooks, The Feeling, Arctic Monkeys, etc.) will hopefully be the only trade-off.