Slightly More Reliable Music News

Last week, I ran with this totally bogus fake Photoshopped Coachella Line-up, and spent a few hundred works talking about how great the theoretical concert would be, while simultaneously getting all of my indie-rock-aware friends and family members excited for a fictional show.

Hey, give me a break, it's the blogsophere. Hoaxes happen. This blog is still more accurate than any of Deborah Howell's columns, and she's a freaking ombudsman!

Anyway, that line-up was totally fake, but now Consumption Junction has posted a real line-up, and it seems significantly more accurate. If only because, while still really cool, the line-up is not as cosmically awesome as the Photoshopped version. Which is, I suppose, inevitable.

Saturday, April 29th

Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Common, Damian Marley, Atmosphere, Carl Cox, My Morning Jacket, Ladytron , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tosca, Cat Power, Animal Collective, HARD-fi, Derrick Carter, Devendra Banhart, She Wants Revenge, The Walkmen, The Juan Maclean, Audio Bullys, Imogen Heap, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, The Duke Spirit, Editors, stellastarr*, Lyrics Born, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, The Zutons, Platinum Piped Pipers, White Rose Movement, Chris Liberator, Colette, Joey Beltram, Hybrid, Wolfmother, The Like, Living Things, Nine Black Alps, The Section Quartet, Infadels, Youth Group, Shy FX & T Power, Infusion.Sunday,

April 30th

Tool, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Paul Oakenfold, Scissor Sisters, Matisyahu, James Blunt, TV on the Radio, Sleater-Kinney , Mogwai, Coheed and Cambria, Gnarls Barkley, Coldcut, Phoenix, Digable Planets, Amadou & Mariam, Little Louie Vega, Mylo (DJ Set), Seu Jorge, Wolf Parade, The Go! Team, Kaskade, Metric, Art Brut, Dungen, The Dears, Jamie Lidell, The Magic Numbers, Los Amigos Invisibles, Jazzanova, Michael Mayer, Mates of State, Gilles Peterson, Gabriel & Dresden, The Subways, Minus the Bear, Be Your Own Pet, Giant Drag, Kristina Sky, The Octopus Project.

I knew the Ween inclusion was too good to be true! And no Strokes or Okkervil River or Portishead or White Stripes or Secret Machines or New Pornographers or Sufjan, either. Though I'm not a huge fan of headliner Tool, there are still enough other bands playing that I want to see on Day 2 (Magic Numbers, Bloc Party, Sleater-Kinney, Wolf Parade) that I'll at least have to go to that one.

Interestingly, there are some great choices that didn't even make the Photoshopped version, like TV on the Radio and Gnarls Barkley. And...does that say "Digable Planets"? Sweet!