Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival A poster announcing the 2013 lineup for the Coachella festival.No Rolling Stones will gather this year in the grassy fields of Indio, Calif., where the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is held. But concertgoers will get the Stone Roses, as well as fellow British rockers like Blur and bands including Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend, the Wu-Tang Clan, its organizers said.
Coachella, the annual celebration of rock, rap, dance and blistering California heat, will run for two three-day weekends this year, from April 12 through 14 and April 19 through 21. Despite earlier rumblings that the Rolling Stones might appear at the festival as part f the band’s 50th anniversary tour, that group did not materialize on the official lineup. (But maybe you’ll still see Mick and Keith swigging from precious water bottles as guests in the V.I.P. section.)
In the meantime, attendees can enjoy acts like the reconstituted Stone Roses, Blur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed and Johnny Marr (at the Friday dates); Phoenix, the xx, the newly reunited Postal Service, Sigur Ros, New Order, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear and 2 Chainz (Saturday shows); and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion, Wu-Tang Clan, the Lumineers and Dinosaur Jr. (Sunday performances).
More information about ticket sales, travel and camping at the festival can be found online at coachella.com.
