The lineup to the 2011 version of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is out, and even though nobody knows what the schedule will look like, fans are already trying to decide who they want to see over the festival's three days of non-stop music. Of all the major festivals, Coachella's setting is nearly as important as the music itself, as the desert in Indio both inspires spontaneous fits of joy and painful dehydration. The headliners — including this year's top-billed acts Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire and Kanye West — always have the benefit of playing in the cool of the evening, but the daytime acts are always fighting against the natural climate. As a result, the afternoon sets tend to be even emptier than they normally are at festivals.
That's a shame, because this year, there are a handful of top-shelf about-to-pop performers who are well worth braving the...
That's a shame, because this year, there are a handful of top-shelf about-to-pop performers who are well worth braving the...
- 1/19/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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