Coachella 2010 Line Up announced!

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Friday April 16th Jay-Z, 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*, Grace Jones, Yeasayer, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive*, The Cribs, La Roux, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

Saturday April 17th: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ's, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura*, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

Sunday April 18th: Gorillaz, Pavement*, Thom Yorke????*, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone*, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg* , Sunny Day Real Estate*, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron*, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, 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, One EskimO.

Tickets for Coachella go on sale Friday, January 22 at 10:00 AM at all Ticketmaster locations and www.coachella.com. Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges. More details on layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information, can be found at www.coachella.com. Coachella 2010 sponsors include Heineken & PlayStation.

I added links to bands I've seen and loved live. I put plain Bold tags to bands that I've seen and thought were not so great live. I put *'s next to ones I haven't seen live but I'd be excited about seeing live. I am always a bit underwhelmed by the Coachella Line up in the last few years. I think they can try harder to secure bigger headliners and better bands in general. Even if they had one night with all the bands I selected I wouldn't be that excited!