The official lineup poster for the 2014 Coachella Music Festival was released last night. The highly rumored (and recently reunited) OutKast finds a spot as one of the headliners, along with Arcade Fire and Muse. The festival will continue to operate on two consecutive weekends in April, this year the dates are April 11-13 and April 18-20.

Other notable artists are Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Calvin Harris, Lana Del Ray, Chromeo, Jagwar Ma, Pharrell Williams, Skrillex, MGMT, Empire of the Sun, Foster The People, Strfkr (Starfucker) and many more. See the full lineup poster below.

It is doubtful that the folks running Lollapalooza are pulling an extravagant April Fools day joke, joining sites such as Google and Microsoft, by announced the lineup today ahead of the previously scheduled date of April 9th. The lineup announced change was likely due to the poster that leaked online last week that actually proved to be true for once. One can only hope that in spirit of April Fools is the reason why Daft Punk is not on the list.

The headliners for the 2013 Lollapalooza music festival are; The Cure, Mumford & Sons, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, The Postal Service, and Vampire Weekend. The Postal Service is continuing their come-back festival tour and this marks the first U.S. announced show for Nine Inch Nails come-back.

Stay tuned as Way Too Indie will be attending and providing coverage of this years’ festival. See below for the rest of the lineup.

2013 Lollapalooza Lineup

Last night saw the release of the lineup of this year’s edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Headliners are The Stone Roses and Blur for Friday night, Phoenix hold their own on Saturday night and the Red Hot Chili Peppers close out the festival on Sunday night. Some of the notable undercard includes: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, newly reformed Jurassic 5, Grinderman on Friday night. Saturday night’s subheadliners are the XX, The Postal Service, Sigur Ros, New Order, Hot Chip and Grizzly Bear. Helping the Chili Peppers close out the fest are Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion and The Wu Tang Clan.

I’ll be sincere, when I first saw the lineup I thought I was being punk’d. First of all, I can deal with The Stone Roses and Blur, but as headliners? I’m not entirely sold. Phoenix is another band that I’m really not that into. I watched part of their set the last time they played Coachella (2010) and it was fine, but again. Headliners? But to be honest, it’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers that bothered me the most. This to me feels like a contingency plan. If the Rolling Stones rumor (that Golden Voice, Coachella promoters, were courting them and failed) is true, then they must’ve called up Kiedis and the boys to fill in. I don’t hate the Chili Peppers, but this is their third time headlining now and let’s face, they’ve become kind of boring.

But this was all last night. All the sadness and anger I had for this lineup needed to be slept on. Ironically, I had a dream that the Chili Peppers were doing sound checks at my house. I woke up this morning and looked at the lineup. I’m becoming more open to this lineup as the time wears on.

Enough crying from this writer, what bands am I excited to see? Being a big Trent Reznor fan, I could never contain my school girl giddiness for the debut performance of his newest group How to Destroy Angels. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bassnectar, Dog Blood, Beach House, New Order, Knife Party, Moby, Benny Benassi, Simian Mobile Disco, Yeasayer, Spiritualized, Ritchie Hawtin, Major Lazer, Dropkick Murphy’s, Bat for Lashes, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pretty Lights, Tame Impala, The Faint, Paul Oakenfold are the artists I’m looking forward to the most.

Over the course of the next couple of months I’ll be dividing my time between Spotify and Youtube, checking out which artists I may want to entertain as well. One of the best parts of Coachella is checking out some random artist in some tent that you’ve never heard of before and they turn out to be one of your favorite sets.

The festival this year runs over the course of two separate weekends in a row. April 12th-14th is the first weekend and April 19th-21st is the second weekend. I’ll be in attendance during weekend two. Expect another article about my “planned” itinerary for the festival a few days before weekend two. I’ll do my best to report from the festival on a daily basis, but odds are leaning towards a full festival wrap up when I get back. If you want immediate updates during the festival, you can always follow me on Twitter @WayTooIndie.

See the full 2013 Coachella lineup poster of bands below.

Well it looks like the rumors we reported were true, Coachella has announced a cruise ship festival named S.S. Coachella. Much like their landlocked festival in Indio, California this cruise festival will take place on two separate dates. Each trip departs from Fort Lauderdale, Flordia with the first festival at sea will heading to the Bahamas on December 16-19 and the second to Jamaica December 19-23rd.

The headliners for these cruises are; Pulp, Hot Chip, Yeasayer and Girl Talk. Some of the other bands that will perform are James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem (who will host a wine tasting), Z-Trip, Sleigh Bells, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Simian Mobile Disco, !!! and more.

The cheapest ticket will be $500 per person (providing you have 4 guests) for an inside Stateroom which including the cabin, food and of course, the entertainment. Let the countdown begin, the first S.S. Coachella takes off 152 days from now.

The Official Lineup Poster for S.S. Coachella: