Blur,
the Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers top the lineup for the 2013
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which was unveiled late on Thursday
night (Jan. 24). The annual fest is set to once again take over Indio, Calif.
on consecutive weekends, this year from Apr. 12-14 and Apr. 19-21.
Friday
night is topped by a pair of recently reunited British alt-rock bands, Blur and
the Stone Roses, who both recently performed overseas while side-stepping the
States (Blur frontman Damon Albarn's side project Gorillaz headlined Coachella
in 2010). Other notable Friday artists include the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who will
release new album "Mosquito" in April; How To Destroy Angels, the
latest project from Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor; the reunited L.A. rap
collective Jurassic 5; and Alt-J, who recently won the Mercury Music Prize in
the U.K.
French indie-rockers Phoenix, whose
"Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" follow-up "Bankrupt!" is
expected to be released this spring, tops the Saturday lineup, with the reunited
Postal Service also performing on the middle day of the festival. Indie
mainstays like Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, the xx and Sigur Ros are also slated for
Saturday performances, while a generous portion of hip-hop (Danny Brown, El-P,
Pusha T and even 2 Chainz!) is also scheduled for April 13 and 20.
The Red
Hot Chili Peppers, who served as headliners at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza in
2012 and have topped the Coachella bill twice before, will cap off the festival
on Sunday night, with Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion and the Wu-Tang Clan
poised for the final day of the fest. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are also
scheduled for Sunday, two days after Cave's other band, Grinderman, performs at
Coachella.
One
artist noticeably absent from the 2013 lineup is the Rolling Stones, who were
rumored to be headlining after the festival appeared momentarily on the band's
iPhone app last month. The Stones had since denied their inclusion on the 2013
bill.
Top-line
dance/electronica artists are also surprisingly scarce on this year's lineup,
after artists like Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Calvin Harris and
Afrojack filled out the 2012 bill. Bassnectar, Eric Prydz and Paul Oakenfold
are among the EDM stars set to rock Coachella 2013.
Tickets
for this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will go on sale on
Tuesday (Jan. 29) at 10:00 am PT. Coachella 2012 was topped by the Black Keys,
Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, who brought out a very special guest,
Tupac Shakur (in hologram form). Last month, the inaugural Coachella Cruise set
sail, with musical artists like Pulp, Girl Talk and Sleigh Bells performing.

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