It's never too early to make shit up about Coachella

So, I realize this "Leaked" Coachella lineup is 2 months old, but I'm just seeing it for the first time this week. That fact alone (seeing that I spend an embarrassing amount of time reading about music online) leads me to believe that it's a complete crock of shit. But...it's always fun to speculate and discuss stuff like this. It's almost one year to the day this I first saw this fake Coachella 2005 lineup. Weird.

April 29

Depeche Mode, The Strokes, Portishead, Franz Ferdinand, Fatboy Slim, Massive Attack, Infected Mushroom, Royksopp, Kings of Leon, Doves, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Atmosphere, Blackalicious, Super Furry Animals, The Buzzcocks, Primal Scream, Supergrass, Ladytron, DJ Peretz, The Shins, Dieselboy, Tortoise, Sleater Kinney, Richard Hawley, Grooverider, Death From Above 1979, Yesterday’s New Quintet, The Walkmen, Son Volt, Will Oldham, The Clientele, Lightning Bolt, Cage, The Crimea, OK Go, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, John Kelly

April 30

The White Stripes, Roxy Music (featuring Brian Eno), The Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Boards of Canada, Underworld, Ween, Death Cab for Cutie, Armin Van Buuren, Built to Spill, De La Soul, Big Star, Iron & Wine, Uberzone, Happy Mondays, Dinosaur Jr, TV on the Radio, Elbow, Eagles of Death Metal, The Tears, Esthero, T. Rauschmiere, Cat Power, The New Pornographers, Carl Cox, Grandaddy, Calexico, Explosions in the Sky, The Wedding Present, Andy C, Fatlip, DJ Icey, The Notwist and Themselves preforming as 13 & God, Devendra Banhart, The Coral, Stateless, 65 Days of Static

Comments

[Matt]

this lineup seems plausible, but some of these bands toured the fests a lot this year, so I can't see them playing again, like Death Cab & arcade fire (aren't they taking a break to record next year?). I could see Doves playing cuz they had to cancel this year. I'd love to see SFA at Coachella, only cuz they don't play a lot of US fests. Will Oldham too. I suspect (hope) Belle & sebastian will play, since they'll be touring the states at that time and they love playing coachella. are these dates right?

Also - Austin City Limits is asking people to e-mail suggestions for bands to book for next years fest:

http://www.austincitylimits.com/festival/booking.asp

[Jeff]

As far as I know, it's all completely made up, including the dates. They may end up being correct, but there is no official confirmation yet.

[Chris]

What's a Coachella rumor without Radiohead????

:p

The lineup sounds "too" perfect. I'm not buying it. It reads like Cool Kid Music 101. The most plausible thing is a Depeche Mode headlining set.

[Bort]

Yeah, somebody at the Coachella board made that ages ago...

I'm sure Sigur Ros and at least two of the following will play: The Strokes, White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand
Depeche Mode headlining would be sweet. Don't see who else could, at this point. Metric and The Decemberists must be there next year, the fact that they've never played is a tragedy.

[Ryan97ou]

I don't care if it's a rumor or not...anything regarding coachella makes me happy. One of the best weekends of the year. And i don't think it's out of the question for Radiohead to be a headliner again, since their album is supposedly coming out next spring. *fingers crossed*

[information leafblower]

The Furries mentioned nothing about this when I was hanging out with them a few weeks ago.