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

The lineup for the 2013 Sasquatch Music Festival has been announced. The festival takes place during Memorial Day weekend in George, Washington. The main headliners this year are; Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Sigur Rós.

Other notable bands include; Built To Spill, Empire Of The Sun, Twin Shadow, Diiv, and Toro Y Moi. Oddly enough, Modest Mouse is not set to play their close-to-home festival (it was announced that they will be playing at Coachella this year).

The 2013 Sasquatch Music Festival will take place May 24th – 27th. See the full list of bands playing Sasquatch as well as the lineup poster below.

Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, The Xx, The Lumineers, Arctic Monkeys, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Cake, Primus 3d, Empire Of The Sun, Imagine Dragons, Bloc Party, Andrew Bird, Grimes, Dropkick Murphys, Built To Spill, Alt-J, Steve Aoki, Wake Owl, Disclosure, Toro Y Moi, Odesza, Kingdom Crumbs, Theoretics, Nissim, Nancy & Beth, Youth Lagoon, Baauer, Lusine, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Beachwood Sparks, Menomena, The Barr Brothers, Brown Bird, Luke Sital-Singh, Brett Gelman, Jenny Slate, James Adomian, The Presets, Azari & Iii, Bombino, Brothers From Another, Divine Fits, Zz Ward, Four Color Zack, Nacho Picasso, Schoolboy Q & Ab-Soul, Mike Birbiglia, Let’s Talk, Oc Notes: “Golden Gods”, Danny Brown, Brody Stevens, Jon Daly, Hundred Waters, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Reignwolf, Holy Ghost!, Jj Grey & Mofro, Knowmads, Kyle Kinane, Laidback Luke, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Joe Mande, Nick Offerman, Rose Windows, Ra Scion, Devendra Banhart, Sean Nelson, John Talabot, Red Fang, Peace, Willy Moon, Youngblood Hawke, Ryan Bingham, Azealia Banks, Telekinesis, Yppah, Indians, Atlas Genius, Japandroids, El-P, Matthew Dear, Chvrches, Robert Delong, Earl Sweatshirt, Killer Mike, Shovels & Rope, Radical Face, Shad, Wild Belle, P.O.S, Michael Kiwanuka, Deep Sea Diver, Death Grips, Twin Shadow, Torche, Dirty Projectors, Tame Impala, Solange, Surfer Blood, Suuns, The Tallest Man On Earth, Diiv, Caveman, Baths, Fang Island, Akron/Family, Father John Misty, Porcelain Raft, Shout Out Louds, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Elliott Brood, Jherek Bischoff, Sea Wolf, Capital Cities

2013 Sasquatch lineup poster:

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.

Death Cab For Cutie frontman, Ben Gibbard, just announced he will be doing a full-length solo LP entitled Former Lives. The 12-track album will be released in the fall of this year and include previously unreleased songs from different parts of his music career.

Ben Gibbard has done several side projects before, each with different levels of success. The most popular project outside his main gig in Death Cab For Cutie would be The Postal Service, which was a wild success. He was also a part of two lesser-known side project bands in the 90’s; ¡All-Time Quarterback! and Pinwheel.

Benjamin Gibbard’s Former Lives is out October 16th via Barsuk Records. Tracklist and tour dates to come.