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Jan 19, 2011 The Strokes By Mark Redfern

Coachella has announced its 2011 lineup. The three-day festival will take place in the California desert town of Indio April 15, 16, and 17. Kings of Leon headline Friday, Arcade Fire are the headliners on Saturday, and Sunday features the dual headliners of Kanye West and The Strokes.

We were kind of hoping that a reformed Pulp would’ve been booked, but Britpop fans will at least get to see Suede (billed as The London Suede here), who haven’t performed in America in many years. Other classic artists include Duran Duran and Wire.

Sunday’s bill is lightest in bands we’re excited to see, but every day is guaranteed to keep fans (and music journalists) running between stages to catch as many artists as they can.

Under the Radar-friendly artists include: Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Best Coast, The Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Cee Lo Green, Chromeo, Cold Cave, Cold War Kids, Crystal Castles, CSS, Cults, Cut Copy, Delorean, Delta Sprirt, The Drums, Duran Duran, Elbow, Empire of the Sun, Foals, Foster the People, Gayngs, Glasser, PJ Harvey, HEALTH, Here We Go Magic, Hurts, Interpol, Jenny and Johnny, The Joy Formidable, The Kills, Klaxons, The Love Language, Menomena, The Morning Benders, Mumford & Sons, The National, The New Pornographers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Phantogram, Phosphorescent, The Radio Dept., Robyn, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Sleigh Bells, The Strokes, Suede (aka: The London Suede), The Swell Season, The Tallest Man on Earth, Tame Impala, Titus Andronicus, Trentemoller, Twin Shadow, Two Door Cinema Club, Warpaint, Wire, and YACHT.

The full lineup is seen on the poster and is here: !!!, 12th Planet, Afrojack, Alf Alpha, Andy C, Angus and Julia Stone, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, A-Trak, Axwell, Beardyman, Best Coast, Big Audio Dynamite, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Bomba Estereo, Boys Noize, Brandon Flowers, Brandt Brauer Frick, Breakage, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Cage the Elephant, Caifanes, Caspa, Cee Lo Green, Chromeo, Chuckie, City and Colour, Clare Maguire, Cold Cave, Cold War Kids, Crystal Castles, CSS, Cults, Cut Copy, Daedelus, Death From Above 1979, Delorean, Delta Sprirt, DJ Hype, DJ Kentaro, DJ Marky, DJ Zinc, Duck Sauce, Duran Duran, EE, Elbow, Electric Touch, Eliza Doolittle, Ellie Goulding, Emicida, Empire of the Sun, Erick Morillo, Erykah Badu, Excision, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Fedde Le Grand, Fistful of Mercy, Flogging Molly, Foals, Foster the People, Francis and the Lights, Freelance Whales, fun., G.Q., Gayngs, Glasser, Gogol Bordello, Good Old War, Gord Downie, Goth Trad, Green Velvet, Gypsy and the Cat, HEALTH, Here We Go Magic, High Contrast, Hurts, Interpol, Jack Beats, Jack’s Mannequin, Jakes, Jenny and Johnny, Jimmy Eat World, Joachim Garraud, Joy Orbison, Kanye West, Kele, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, Kode9, Kyle Hall, Laidback Luke, Leftfield, Lightning Bolt, Lil’ B, Lorn, Los Bunkers, Magnetic Man, Mariachi El Bronx, Marina and the Diamonds, Mary Anne Hobbs, MEN, Menomena, Monarchy, Mount Kimbie, Moving Units, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Mumford & Sons, Nas & Damian Marley, Neon Trees, New Pants, Nosaj Thing, OFF!, OFWGKTA, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, One Day as a Lion, Ozomatli, Paul van Dyk, Phantogram, Phosphorescent, PJ Harvey, Plan B, Ramadanman, Raphael Saadiq, Ras G, Ratatat, Riva Starr, Robyn, Roska, Rye Rye, Sander Kleinenberg, Sasha, SBTRKT, Scala & Kolacny Bros., Scissor Sisters, She Wants Revenge, Shpongle, Skrillex, Sleigh Bells, Steve Angello, Sven Vath, Take, Tame Impala, Terror Danjah, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, The Aquabats, The Black Keys, The Chemical Brothers, The Drums, The Felice Brothers, The Henry Clay People, The Joy Formidable, The Kills, The London Suede, The Love Language, The Morning Benders, The National, The New Pornographers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Presets, The Radio Dept., The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Strokes, The Swell Season, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Twelves, Thunderball, Tinie Tempah, Titus Andronicus, Tokimonsta, Trampled by Turtles, Trentemoller, Twin Shadow, Two Door Cinema Club, Warpaint, Wire, Wiz Khalifa, Yacht, Yelle and Zed Bias.

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