2010 Coachella Line-Up Announced

Ana Pineda

At approximately 7:30am on Tuesday, KROQ DJ’s Kevin and Bean announced the anticipated and coveted line-up for 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival taking place Friday, April 16-Sunday, April 18^th. The Coachella peeps obviously wanted to start the new decade right as Jay Z, Muse, and Gorillaz are scheduled to headline the corresponding dates.

On Friday, Jay Z will play with LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, She & Him, Grace Jones, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, Wolfgang Gartner, DJ Lance Rock, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Aeroplane, Ceu, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, Wale Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall As Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, and Pablo Hassan.

Think Friday’s legit? Saturday is up for the challenge. Along with British rockers Muse, Faith No More and DJ Tiesto will add for support. Throw in some MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2ManyDJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-trip, and The XX into the mix for a kick ass concert. Not enough to satisfy your music hunger? Never fear. John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Sia, Camera Obscura, Dirty South, Mew, Tokyo Police Club, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopelados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbits, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Procupine Tree, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Shooter Jennings, Craze and Klever, Zoe, Temper Trap, Portugal the Man, White Rabbits, Band of Skulls, Firls, Beach House, Steel Train, and Frank Turner fill out the rest of Saturday’s strong line-up.

If Friday and Saturday haven’t killed your energy (and it shouldn’t, we are Isla Vistan and we know how to party!), Sunday’s great line-up with Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke???? and Phoenix should blow you away. Along with the three confirmed acts above, they are joined by Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Spoon, De La Soul, Jonsi, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Club 75, Sunny Day Real Estate, Infected Mushroom (A UCSB Favorite), Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, MUTEMATH, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Miike Snow, Gil Scott-Heron, King Kahn and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tierson, Little Boots, Talvin Singh, B.o.B, Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, and One EskimO.

This may be one of Coachella’s strongest and impressive line-ups yet, so do not miss out on this epic festival event. One major change this year is that Coachella WILL NOT be selling single day passes. It’s all three or bust. This is due to the fact that they will allow people to exit the campsite and festival area, so it will be easier to do crowd control with one wristband. While this may upset a few spectators, the line-up is solid all three days, so a person will get their money’s worth. However, if you’re strapped for cash and want to go, start saving now to buy the $269 ticket plus the Ticketmaster surcharge. Coachella has the layaway program, so look into that if you cannot pay the money in full because tickets may sell out very quickly. For more info, visit www.coachella.com.

Tickets go on sale at 10am this Friday, so if you snooze, you will definitely lose! Hopefully, I will see you there. Although this means saying goodbye to 50 Club next quarter, my money will be well spent. Cheap booze, here I come! I am Coachella.  Will you be too?