Coachella 2009 Lineup Announced

If, you, like us, have just been screwed over by the powers that be for Phish tickets (see Pauly's rant above), well, there's always shelling out $269.00 for Coachella to look forward to! That's the price on a three-day pass for this year's hipster-fest in the Southern California desert (plus fees, plus a $3 donation to charity, etc.) which is scheduled to take place April 17-19 at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, CA.

Take a look at the (pretty fucking odd) lineup, which was just released. Seriously, Paul McCartney headlining? Yeah, my 61-year old mother will be stoked about that one, but will scores of coke-snorting 20-year olds share her excitement? To me, the only day that looks like it might be worth the trip is Saturday's Amy Winehouse/Thievery Corporation/Fleet Foxes/Band of Horses/TV on the Radio grouping.

Also performing? Blasts from the past Morrissey, Leonard Cohen, X, and the Cure along with fresh-from-their-plane crash DJ duo Travis Barker and DJ A.M. spinning under the moniker TRAV$DJ-AM.

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
TRAV$DJ-AM
Henry Rollins
Crookers
Turbonegro
Hercules and Love Affair
Superchunk
Glasvegas
Dr. Dog
Drive-By Truckers
Booker T & the DBT’s
Amanda Palmer
The Bloody Beetroots
Surkin, Para One (Live)
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
Antony & the Johnsons
X
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
Gaslight Anthem
The Knux
Mexican Institute of Sound
The Night Marchers
Marshall Barnes