Photo Credit: Mike Ivankay for Coachella
The Scene
Like a barometer always reading a temperature of awesome, the traditional kickoff to the summer festival season is dominated by Coachella. The glitz and glamour of Los Angeles migrates east to the Indio desert for back to back weekends of the biggest names in music. What started as a small electronic festival in the desert has transformed into a cultural touchstone for the festival season.
Festival Poster
2009 Artist Lineup
Band of Horses
Billy Talent
Cage the Elephant
Calexico
Dr. Dog
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Fucked Up
Girl Talk
Mastodon
Silversun Pickups
Steve Aoki
The Black Keys
The Horrors
The Killers
The Kills
Thievery Corporation
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- A Place to Bury Strangers
- The Aggrolites
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- Alberta Cross
- Amanda Palmer
- Amy Winehouse
- Antony and the Johnsons
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
- Atmosphere
- Bajofondo
- Band of Horses
- Billy Talent
- The Black Keys
- Blitzen Trapper
- The Bloody Beetroots
- Bob Mould Band
- Booker T. Jones
- The Bug
- Buraka Som Sistema
- Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Buraka Som Sistema
- Cage the Elephant
- Calexico
- Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
- Clipse
- Cloud Cult
- The Courteeners
- Craze and Klever
- Christopher Lawrence
- Crookers
- Crystal Castles
- The Crystal Method
- Dear and the Headlights
- Dr. Dog
- Drop The Lime
- Fleet Foxes
- Franz Ferdinand
- Friendly Fires
- Fucked Up
- Gang Gang Dance
- The Gaslight Anthem
- Genghis Tron
- Ghostland Observatory
- Girl Talk
- Glasvegas
- Groove Armada
- Gui Boratto
- Henry Rollins
- Hercules and Love Affair
- The Hold Steady
- The Horrors
- Ida Maria
- James Morrison
- Jenny Lewis
- Junior Boys
- K’naan
- The Killers
- The Kills
- The Knux
- Late of the Pier
- Leonard Cohen
- Liars
- Los Campesinos!
- Lucent Dossier
- Lupe Fiasco
- M. Ward
- M.A.N.D.Y.
- Marshall Barnes
- Mastodon
- Mexican Institute of Sound
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Mike Patton (w/ Rahzel)
- Molotov
- MSTRKRFT
- My Bloody Valentine
- N.A.S.A. The Night Marchers
- No Age
- Noah and the Whale
- Okkervil River
- Paolo Nutini
- Paul McCartney
- Paul Weller
- Peanut Butter Wolf
- People Under the Stars* Peter
- Bjorn and John
- Perry Farrell
- The Presets
- Public Enemy
- Roni Size Reprazent
- Ryan Bingham
- Sebastian Tellier
- Shepard Fairey
- Silversun Pickups
- Steve Aoki
- Surkin
- Para One (Live)
- Superchunck
- Supermayer
- Switch
- Themselves
- Thenewno2
- Thievery Corporation
- Throbbing Gristle
- Tinariwen
- The Ting Tings
- TRAV$DJ-AM
- Turbonegro
- TV on the Radio
- Vivian Girls
- We Are Scientists
- White Lies
- X
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Zane Lowe
- Zizek