Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Dirty Projectors, Thom Yorke, Faith No More

The Coachella 2010 lineup has been announced. Highlights include Faith No More, Thom Yorke???? (what a name), De La Soul, Dirty Projectors, and Yo La Tengo. Lowlights include Muse.

The fest runs April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA. Check out Coachella’s official website for more details about Muse.

FRIDAY APRIL 16: 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, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, 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 17: 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 18: 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.

Michael Gira Responds to Swans “Reunion” Claims, Releases Limited-Edition CD/DVD to Raise Money

Yay! The rumored new Swans album/tour which we reported last year is less of a rumor! Details about the legendary post-punk/no wave group’s upcoming new album and “tour(s)” are fairly scant, but the important thing is that THIS SHIT IS ON.

Last week, frontman Michael Gira announced that the band would be reforming on Swans’ MySpace page and posted a new acoustic track, “Jim,” one of several potential songs to be recorded on the new album. In order to raise money for recording costs, Gira is releasing a CD of these potential Swans acoustic tracks that will come with a DVD of two live shows. Entitled I Am Not Insane, the release will be limited to 1,000 copies.

Ordering info and further explanation from Gira can be found here. Just don’t call it a “reunion.”

The new Swans lineup, according to the MySpace post:

• Michael Gira / gtr / voice / mendicant friar act (original Swans)
• Norman Westberg - Guitar (original Swans)
• Christophj Hahn - Guitar (mid period Swans and most Angels of Light)
• Phil Puleo - Drums, percussion, dulcimer etc etc (final Swans tour and
most Angels)
• Chris Pravdica - Bass and gadgets (Flux Information Sciences /
Services / Gunga Din)
• Thor Harris, Drums, percussion, vibes, dulcimer, curios, etc etc…
(Angels, now also with Shearwater)

No word on tourdates yet, but Mr. Gira, if you’re sitting around reading news stories about your band getting back together, just let me ask that you to puuhhlllllllleaaaaaase come to Minneapolis!

Billy Corgan Starts a Label

Oh, Billy Corgan…won’t you just go away and leave Mellon Collie with some sort of dignity? You won’t? Oh, okay… I guess you’re going to start up a label instead… great… yeah, sure… tell me about it.

“Hey kids! This is your resident ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ Billy Corgan checking in again to drop some major news about my awesome career! It’s hot! I’ve decided to do more than just release my own music by signing teenage boys to contracts so that I own them and start releasing other people’s music! That’s right! Billy Corgan’s got his own as-yet-untitled Record Label. I know, great idea, right? I thought so, too!

“So far I’ve got some REALLY cool artists: L.A. punk legends The Germs, 60s psych-rock legends Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Electric Prunes, Fancy Space People, Ya Ho Wa 13, and my own side project Starchildren. A bunch of awesome bands in the prime of their career, right? It’s gonna be great! I can’t wait! This rat is finally leaving his cage!”

Radiohead’s Kid A at #100 on Billboard Charts

Kid A is back on the Billboard 200, at #100. Of course, placing high on all those decade lists (posted before the decade was over) surely helped, but if we’re talking aesthetic posterity, it’s hard to think of a better example than Kid A. Check out this interesting Kid A-era Thom Yorke interview:

By the way, Kid A is also #24 on the digital albums charts, so the significance of the re-entry ain’t so easily attributed to the digital/physical dichotomy. Sorry!

Just like heaven: Kurt Vile joins Dinosaur Jr. for the dreamiest of all tours

Some musical pairings just naturally go together. Sonny and Cher. Morrissey and Marr. U2 and recent tour openers Black-Eyed Peas. (Wait, what?) And now we can add to those elite ranks the legendary Dinosaur Jr. and new tourmates Kurt Vile & The Violators. J.Mascis recently listed Vile’s Childish Prodigy in his top picks of 2009. Mr. Mascis, you’re one of my top picks for 2010… for making this tour happen. Ahhhhh….

01.15.10 - Milford, CT - Daniel Street #
01.16.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
01.17.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg #
01.19.10 - Ithaca, NY - Castaways #
01.20.10 - Kingston, ON - The Ale House #

February shows with Fucked Up:

02.12.10 - Oberlin, OH - The �Sco (Dionysus Disco) @ Oberlin College @
02.13.10 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle @
02.14.10 - Bloomington, IN - Video Saloon @
02.15.10 - Newport, KY - Southgate House @
02.16.10 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar @
02.18.10 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s @
02.19.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Europa @
02.20.10 - Boston, MA - Middle East Downstairs @
02.21.10 - Montreal QUE, UE - La Sala Rossa
02.26.10 - Toronto, ON - Opera House @

# with Dinosaur Jr.
@ with Fucked Up

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