Coachella just posted this year’s lineup on its Facebook and Twitter. Headliners for the double weekend festival are Black Keys (Friday), Radiohead (Saturday), and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg (Sunday). Even more exciting are the acts highlighting the Recently Reunited undercard: At The Drive-In, Refused, Mazzy Star, and Pulp. This year’s event goes down April 13-15 and April 20-22, so double your sunscreen budget.

Who are you most excited to see? And if you’d like to compare to previous years’: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

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  1. Girls, Bon Iver, M. Ward, Pulp, Real Estate and Yuck. I’ve seen some of the rest already.

  2. Meanwhile, on the East Coast, I’m crying.

  3. Stuck in Florda. Urgh, to see Jeff Mangum live…..this is the year to go.

  4. 1-9-12

    The day my mind exploded

  5. Is Egypt 80 the second coming of Tahiti 80?

  6. Cat Power! I’m there.

  7. Certain names are not as big as I would like.

  8. I just popped a boner for Jeff Mangum

  9. everybody you should all thumbs up this comment, so that I can get into steroegum’s worst/best comments, thank you!

  10. So is “Wolf Gang” odd future? Frank Ocean’s the same day…

  11. Saturday’s the best day, I don’t care what you say.

    There’s my rhyme for the day.

  12. Holy shit Refused

  13. Holy crap! Why can’t Lollapalooza’s lineup look like this?

  14. Obligatory post about how the lineup “sucks”

  15. Brownie points to me for predicting Death Grips.

  16. Buzzcocks???

    BUZZCOCKS !!!!!!!????

  17. After the seed of Fiona Apple was planted in the fake version, this never could have measured up.

  18. Refused!?! That is a completely random choice, but I am so excited to see them. This is definitely revenge of the 90s with Refused, At the Drive-in, Jeff Magnum, and Pulp

  19. Pulp. Mazzy Star.

    • Love Mazzy Star, but listening to, and watching them play is completely different. They barely wowed in a 400 capacity room with great sound years ago….mainly because they all seemed bored as hell on stage. I doubt that part is gonna have changed sadly.

      PULP should be amazing to see on the other hand.

  20. Squeeze for the win. I’ll bring my dad.

  21. This lineup is ridiculously awesome. Sunday is a bit weak but oh well. April can’t come soon enough!

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  23. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

  24. Buzzcocks. Bold that shit.

    Anyway, Friday looks fucking sick. It starts strong as shit.

  25. God, this is the best festival lineup I’ve ever seen. I wish anywhere even remotely close to California =(

  26. OMG! Feed me, Noisia, M83, Flying lotus, Zeds Dead, Borgore, Flux Pavilion, Justice. I am definitively going!!!

  27. Ummm… where’s Lana Del Rey?

  28. has there ever been another festival in this format. kind of bizaare if you think about it. Radiohead play the 14th, then stay in Indio for a week? And just rest up, and then a week later they play again on the same bill as the week before?

  29. I have to stop being underage and living in Canada.

  30. I’m stoked and would be going no matter what since I already bought the ticket but I seem to be the only one who is a little underwhelmed by the lineup. Sunday seems to lack sub-headliners I’m personally excited to see besides Beirut. Plus I can already see a scheduling conflict where I miss out on one of Real Estate, Metronomy, First Aid Kit or Wild Beasts. I’m also a huge Black Keys but everyone who has been to Coachella has most likely seen them. This will be my 4th time seeing them there, I guess I just expected more since they have tickets being sold for two weekends now. No matter what Its worth the total price for just the camping on site and one day of the music.

  31. Same goodness year after year. Are people still surprised how good Coachella is?

    • to be honest, not at all… it’s so consistently incredible that i don’t even react to the lineup anymore. saw all the names and thought, “yep, sounds about right.” if i were going, of course, i’m sure my excitement level would be a bit higher.

  32. There also seems to be 15 or so less bands so maybe they add another band or two.

  33. weird not seeing arcade fire, or vamp weekend

  34. There will be additions.

    • Stone Roses was the big rumor right? That sure would make up for Dre & Snoop Dogg headlining on Sunday.

      • i dont know about that, Roses never were exactly a punk rock explosion live…and hearing all The Chronic stuff live has gotta be fun, not that i wouldn’t love to hear a Roses greatest hits collection live, something i never thought would ever happen.

  35. lol coachella website is down for me….

  36. has anyone ever greyhounded it to indio? i know its sort of in the middle of nowhere like the gorge or something, so i heard you cant get a bus directly to indio or something. so that would be a pain for someone like me who doesnt drive. i get why these festivals are usually in deserted out of the way places, but its also somewhat a hassle for someone like me. And in terms of the lineup, does anyone else feel like David Guetta is involved in a game of this thing is not like the others? he may be good but its like seeing Gaga on the bill or something.

    • theres greyhound in indio usually greyhound offers special coachella fares on that week so you might have to book early. I know someone who spent under 50 bucks for a round fare from LA to Indio and back again but that was a couple years ago.

  37. Thundercat is one word. And why the fuck is he so tiny??

  38. yeah alot of those acts in small print its shocking they arent in bold. kendrick lamar, dawes, neon indian, Flylo, Asap, Kaiser, destroyer, laura marling, tuneyards, company flow

  39. I hate living in Kansas.

  40. Where s The fucking Stone Roses???? they should be headlining 3 nights!!!!!

    NOT GOING!

  41. REFUSED!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!

    Also, At The Drive-In – how funny – I was randomly going through The Mars Volta’s albums recently for the first time in years, and then, BAM, today ATDI get back together and are on the list!

    • Yeah if I can’t get a ticket I will be pissed. I didn’t listen to “The Shape of Punk to Come” until they were already in the process of calling it quits. I can’t believe I’ll actually get to see them live.

  42. REFUSED ARE FUCKING ALIVE!

  43. does this lineup look really house/techno heavy to anyone else?

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  45. PULP! Finally! This made my night!

  46. AT THE DRIVE-IN!!!!!

  47. Madness, I’m telling you!

    MADNESS!!!!

  48. I may have to make trip just to see The Weeknd……. Y’all sleeping on him.

  49. Fri: SHM
    Sat: Radiohead
    Sun: The Weeknd, #1 spot.

  50. I’m surprised no one has mentioned this but fIREHOSE!?!? They’re playing shows again!?!?! When did this happen? This is as close to seeing the Minutemen as we’ll ever get in this dark day and age!

  51. Best lineup I think I’ve ever seen Coachella put together.

  52. I am remaining hopeful that this exact line up will reappear for the 2012 ACL line up…

  53. So, I wonder when the sasquatch lineup is gonna be announced.

  54. i love indie but i prefer codie

  55. Where’s Alanis?

  56. Godspeed is going to be there! I hate living in Indiana

  57. Friday at the very bottom: Please tell me that “Dear Hunter” is a different band than Deerhunter and that the folks over at Coachella didn’t really: 1.) Typo the shit out of a well established band like Deerhunter 2.) If number 1 is correct put a well established band like Deerhunter (Dear Hunter?) lower on the bill than Ximena Siranana?

  58. No Tyler the creator?? why?

  59. Can’t understand how headliner bands like Kasabian and Arctic Monkeys (in Europe at least) get such a low place on the bill. However, midcard act in the UK, La Roux, gets a better place. Don’t get me wrong, I love La Roux, but I don’t think it’s fair for a band like Kasabian not to get that attention.

    • Because Kasabian is god-awful and the Arctic Monkeys keep writing the same album over and over again, while La Roux, with her funny little hairdo, actually broke through here in ‘merica.

  60. My final exams start on the 16th, and end on the 24th. This is a cruel, cruel joke.

  61. Here are our lists of SMALL PRINT BANDS – The ones you can’t read, but you must see:

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  62. at the drive in ! wish i had enough to go lol

  63. wow. refused, at the drive-in, buzzcocks, atari teenage riot. some serious action there. throw in some pulp, mazzy star, and gsy!be. it’s the land of bands you never thought we play together again.

  64. Funny seeing At the Drive In listed as a big headliner now when they were on a teeny stage at noon at the first Coachella! Good show tho- nice line-up this year.

  65. Atari Teenage Riot.

  66. Definitely dubstep, not even really house or “techno”. Feed me, Swedish House Mafia, Dr. P, Flux Pavilion, Borgore, Nosia, Datsik , Avicii, Pure Filth Sound, Porter Robinson, Mt. Eden. AAAMMMAZZING, coming from Minnesota.

  67. I saw Refused in this extremely small town in Sweden when I was 15 (i’m 30 now btw). Fantastic gig, I broke a rib. They’re doing one gig here in Sweden aswell but I don’t want to have my memories of them destroyed so I guess i’ll stay home and pet my cat instead (Dennis Lyxzén is sort of a a-hole these days anyway…)

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    • Why is the Black Keys headlining? Liked how The Black Keys blasted Nickelback when they’re essentially the 20teens version of Nickelback.

    • funny that you’re disappointed with 95% of the lineup, yet claim to have bought an advance ticket. buying a ticket before the lineup comes out tells me that you’re at least somewhat familiar with coachella, and had an expectation based on the last few years – an expectation that you relied upon to the tune of several hundred dollars. so, this begs the question: what the fuck DID you expect??

      odds are you’re literally the only ticketholder in the country who saw the lineup and said, “aw shit, radiohead?! explosions in the sky, jeff mangum, at the drive-in, bon iver? well fuck that, i’m not going.”

  69. Now to unfriend the jerk who l linked me here, because I live on the east coast.

  70. Pulp, Refused, Jimmy Cliff, Pulp, Girls, Refused, Yuck, Black Angels, Pulp, EMA! Holy shit that’s only day 1.

    This has to got be some of the best small print I’ve ever seen on a line up poster. Now I have to decided between this and N.O. Jazz Fest (which is only 2.5 hours away instead of the other side of the country).

    Let’s just move Coachella to the deep south, where all great culture resides.

  71. Dre & Snoop replaced Black Sabbath who pulled out sunday evening due to Tony Iommi’s cancer. Surprised stereogum hasnt reported that since damn near everyone else has…..

  72. for those in NYC who cant make it all the way to Coachella Axwell from Swedish House Mafia is performing on Feb 24 at this crazy opera-meets-circus event called The Cosmic Opera http://www.thecosmicopera.com/

  73. I know their tour dates already ruled them out as headliners, but I’m still relieved that Coldplay won’t be there.

  74. This lineup would be sooooo much better with Diplo on it….every night

  75. SUNDAY, I’m pretty pumped to see dr dre, at the drive in, an beirut, BUT THEN WHAT? Any suggestion? Nothing looks good on sunday.

  76. Man…. really. Sunday is the best day of the Fest! The Weeknd, Gotye, araabmuzik, CoFlow, Justice, Calvin Harris, Florence & the Machine……. the list goes on. This is the day that’s getting me back to CA from Vermont

  77. The Black Keys, Pulp, Arctic Monkeys,Explosions in the Sky, M83, GIRLS, M. Ward, The Horrors, Yuck, Neon Indian, Dawes, Black Angels, Givers,Band of Skulls,Radiohead, Bon Iver, The Shins, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Jeff Mangum, Andrew Bird, Feist, Firehose, St. Vincent,Manchester Orchestra, Kasabian, Buzzcocks, Kaiser Chiefs, Destroyer, The Head and the Heart, Laura Marling, Tuneyards, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Black Lips, The Big Pink, Childish Gambino, The Vaccines, , Gary Clark Jr., Dragonette, Florence and the Machine, Beirut, The Weeknd, Girl Talk, The Hives, Wild Flag, Gotye, Fitz and the Tantrums,Real Estate, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, and, Fanfarlo all in one festival? Godlike. ;__;

  78. Why isn’t snoop performing on 4/20?

  79. And now I’m on the Coachella Standby Page! Oh the anticipation.

  80. Swedish House Mafia, M83, Miike Snow, Florence + the Machines, AVIICII, & Calvin Harris.
    Uh huh.

  81. SICK lineup. only thing that could make it better is Jack White. His new solo album will be out April 24. First look with a new single here http://www.jackwhiteiii.com/

  82. Really kills me that I can’t go to this because I’m halfway across the country, yea I get ACL but this lineup: Explosions In The Sky, DJ Shadow, At the Drive In, The Shins, Radiohead, The Black Keys, Neon Indian, Bon Iver, Miike Snow, Manchester Orchestra, A$AP Rocky, Kaiser Chiefs, The Black Lips, Big Pink, Mt Eden, Justice, Florence + The Machine, Beirut, Arctic Monkeys, Girls and the list goes on…

  83. Why isn’t St. Lucia on the list! They would complete this three-day trifecta:) Guess I’ll just have to enjoy the vid for “We Got It Wrong”…
    http://www.prefixmag.com/media/st-lucia/we-got-it-wrong-video-prefix-premiere/62510/

  84. I was going to coachella fest but after all not going my boss didn’t give me the days off so I will have two extra tickets if anyone wants to buy them????? email me at yl92201@yahoo.com

  85. We’ve made a web page for creating custom line-ups for Coachella. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/I9cWdt
    There are no ads/sign ups required. Just click who you’d like to see and share/print.

  86. I so wish I saw Death Grips play today! I just pre-ordered their new album&I’m psyched!
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/the-money-store/id515506049

  87. This will be awesome folks.

  88. Gonna go cry for the rest of my life because I won’t be there..

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