OFFICIAL COACHELLA 2011 LINEUP RELEASED!: Our Predictions Vs. The Real Thing
Left: Official Coachella 2011 lineup flyer; Right: Our lineup predictions flyer
After all the speculation, teasing games and false alarms (thank you, @IGGNASTYY) over the last few days as we all waited with baited breath, the official lineup for Coachella 2011 has been released! And we were prettttyyyyy, prettyyyyyy, prettyyyyyy, pretty close with our predictions. Now let's breakdown the official Coachella performers and take a look at which acts we guessed right and the ones we missed.
THE HEADLINERS
Instead of three headliners, one per day, Coachella got fancy on us and decided to double down Sunday with Kanye AND The Strokes. In a perfect world, Kanye having to share his top billing with another act would serve as a much needed chip at his ego, but we're not getting our hopes up as he is so far gone up his own ass. But that's neither here nor there. The point is, our predictions on both Kanye and The Strokes were right, except we didn't bill the Strokes as a top headliner for a day.
Moving on, we were on the money with Arcade Fire for Saturday, which is officially billed as "Arcade Fire" sans the definite article which we regrettably included on our flyer, so everyone stop calling them "The Arcade Fire".
Finally, we were off on Friday which will be headlined by Kings of Leon instead of our prediction of The White Stripes. I'd like to point out that this might be the singular instance in which being wrong doesn't hurt for me as much as what we were wrong about... Kings of Leon? Mehh. The White Stripes would have been awesome.
And guess who's NOWHERE on the lineup this year? Daft Punk AND The Rolling Stones. [See "About That Daft Punk And Rolling Stones Coachella 2011 Buzz..." in which we respond to the boardies insisting both acts were confirmed] OH SNAP. If our flyer had been a wishlist, however, both would have gotten placement just below DAVID BOWIE.
All other acts on the lineup we predicted...
- The Black Keys
- Chemical Brothers
- Interpol
- Caifanes
- Robyn
- Lauryn Hill
- Crystal Castles
- Cut Copy
- Cold War Kids
- Erick Morillo
- Nosaj Thing
- Magnetic Men
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
- Klaxons
- Titus Andronicus
- Glasser
- Afrojack
- Skrillex
- The Rural Alberta Advantage
- Animal Collective
- Bright Eyes
- Empire of the Sun
- Broken Social Scene
- One Day as a Lion
- Gogol Bordello
- Foals
- Fat Freddy's Drop
- The Tallest Man on Earth
- The Radio Dept.
- Wire
- Gayngs
- The Twelves
- Bomba Estereo
- Duran Duran
- The National
- Chemical Brothers
- Tame Impala
- The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77
- Duck Sauce
- HEALTH
- MEN
- Angus and Julia Stone
- Delorean
- Twin Shadow
- Rye Rye
And everyone else we missed who will be in the big desert in April...
- Sasha
- Brandon Flowers
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Kele
- Marina and the Diamonds
- Here We Go Magic
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
- Monarchy
- A-Trak
- Cold Cave
- The Drums
- Morning Benders
- Sander Kleimenberg
- Brandt Brauer Frick
- Scala & Kolacny Bros.
- Gypsy and the Cat
- 12th Planet
- Breakage
- Hurts
- Clare Maguire
- Cee Lo Green
- Sleigh Bells
- Boys Noize
- Moving Units
- Excision
- OFWGKTA
- Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
- Aquabats
- Flogging Molly
- Warpaint
- Ozomatli
- !!!
- Beardyman
- Mount Kimbie
- Jakes
- Kyle Hall
- Emicida
- Mumford & Sons
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Steve Angello
- The Kills
- The London Suede
- Erykah Badu
- Paul van Dyk
- Fedde Le Grand
- Scissor Sisters
- New Pornographers
- Cage the Elephant
- The Swell Season
- Shpongle
- Laidback Luke
- Elbow
- Daedelus
- Delta Spirit
- Two Door Cinema Club
- Jenny and Johnny
- Cults
- Chuckie
- Raphael Saadiq
- Lil' B
- Yacht
- Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
- The Joy Formidable
- Phosphorescent
- Francis and the Lights
- The Love Language
- DJ Hype
- DJ Marky
- Joachim Garraud
- The Henry Clay People
- Freelance Whales
- Mariachi El Bronx
- EE
- Andy C
- SBTRKT
- The Felice Brothers
- Trampled By Turtles
- Mary Anne Hobbs
- Alf Alpha
- PJ Harvey
- Death From Above 1979
- Wiz Khalifa
- Ratatat
- Nas & Damian Marley
- Jimmy Eat World
- Axwell
- Sven Vath
- Chromeo
- Neon Trees
- The Presets
- Leftfield
- Best Coast
- Lightning Bolt
- She Wants Revenge
- Jack's Mannequin
- Green Velvet
- Fistful of Mercy
- Jack Beats
- CSS
- City and Colour
- Yelle
- Trentemøller
- Phantogram
- OFF!
- Tinie Tempah
- Plan B
- Caspa
- Riva Starr
- Joy Orbison
- Menomena
- fun.
- Good Old War
- Ellie Goulding
- Eliza Doolittle
- Los Bunkers
- High Contrast
- DJ Zinc
- New Pants
- Thunderball
- Gord Downie
- Tokimonsta
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enoughalready
January 20, 2011
3:09pm
The fact of the matter is the music industry is dead. Sales, even for the top 40 crap which is shoved down our throat with constant airplay, is virtually nil. The music industry knows that the only profits left are in live performance and merchandising. In a cynical attempt to grab some of that dough they have foisted their talentless garbage upon the indie music fan, hence the likes of Jay Z and Kanye at Bonnaroo and Coachella, where these prancing talentless clowns muck up the proceedings. My suggestion; BOO THEM OFF THE STAGE!