The Coachella Music Festival has announced its exciting lineup for 2012! Hip hop fans will go crazy over the reunion of legends Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg and will be salivating in anticipation of what the Doctor has in store for them. Alternatively, indie fans will rejoice to headliners Radiohead or the bluesy The Black Keys. Other massive indie names include Pulp, Bon Iver, Florence and the Machine and the Arctic Monkeys.

The Coachella Festival is held in the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley. It has had a great history, from its opening in 1999 when such bands as Rage Against the Machine and The Chemical Brothers played. The desert setting gives festival goers a hot setting in which to unwind and enjoy the very best music around.

For the 2012 version, big names like Dr Dre or Radiohead will no doubt bring the house down and according to the L.A. Times fans can expect to pay from $285 for a three-day weekend pass for either April 13-15 or April 20-22. If you like the star treatment, why not treat yourself to a VIP pass?

These tickets are extremely limited, though, so make sure you get yours this Friday 10am PST on the Coachella Music Festival official site. And don’t be late because the demand is massive!

Please see below for the full lineup as provided by Huffington Post:

Friday, April 13 & 20
The Black Keys, Swedish House Mafia, Pulp, Refused, Arctic Monkeys, Mazzy Star, Afrojack, Explosions in the Sky, M83, Amon Tobin, Cat Power, Madness, Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong, GIRLS, The Rapture, Madeon, M. Ward, The Horrors, Frank Ocean, Horrors, James Alesso, Sebastien, Yuck, Neon Indian, Dawes, Black Angels, Deathgrips, Wu Lyf, Breakbot, Atari Teenage Riot, Feed Me, Givers, Other Lives, Band of Skulls, R3hab, Wolfgang, Midnight Beast, EMA, Ximena Sarinana, Kendrick Lamar, The Dear Hunter, Honeyhoney, Hello Seahorse!, Sheepdogs, LA Riots

Saturday, April 14 and 21
Radiohead, Bon Iver, The Shins, David Guetta, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Kaskade, Miike Snow, Jeff Mangum, Sebastian Ingrosso, Andrew Bird, Feist, Firehose, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, St. Vincent, Martin Solveig, Subfocus, Sbtrkt, Flying Lotus, Manchester Orchestra, Kasabian, AWOL Nation, Azealia Banks, Squeeze, A$AP Rocky, Buzzcocks, Kaiser Chiefs, Destroyer, The Head and the Heart, Laura Marling, Tuneyards, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Black Lips, The Big Pink, Childish Gambino, The Vaccines, Zed’s Dead, Grouplove, Jacques Lu Cont, We Were Promised, Jetpacks, Gary Clark Jr., Borgore, Dragonette, We Are Augustines, Mt. Eden, Destructo, Suedehead, Keep Shelley in Athens, Pure Filth Sound

Sunday, April 15 and 22
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, At the Drive-In, Justice, Florence and the Machine, AVICII, La Roux, Beirut, The Weeknd, Girl Talk, The Hives, DJ Shadow, Calvin Harris, Nero, Wild Flag, Modeselektor, Dada Life, Porter Robinson, Santigold, Flux Pavilion, Dr. P, Gotye, Seun Keti, Egypt 80, Beats Antique, Fitz and the Tantrums, Araabmuzik, Company Flow, Real Estate, Zed, Le Bucherettes, Greg Ginn, The Growlers, Noisia, Morgan Page, Gaslamp Killer, First Aid Kit, Oberhofer, Lissie, Thundercat, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, Housse de Racket, Fanfarlo, Spector, Gardens & Villa, Airplane Boys, Sleeper Agent

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Before Portishead released their debut album, Dummy, in 1994, trip-hop’s broad appeal wasn’t apparent, but the record became an unexpected success, not just in Britian – where it won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize – but also in America, selling over 150,000 copies before the group ever toured there.

After their initial success, the band, comprised of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley withdrew from the spotlight for three years until their self-titled second album, Portishead, was released in 1997.The group then split for several years to concentrate on solo projects before rejoining forces in 2005.

Currently on tour in the U.S. (also a first since 1998), Portishead is scheduled to play 2 sold out nights at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC, and will follow those performances with visits to Chicago, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Seattle, and Denver all in the month of October.

In addition to roping in Portishead, Fallon has also managed to book an Oct. 3rd appearance by Radiohead, who are coming fresh of the heels of back-to-back late night performances on SNL and The Cobert Report.

For those of you who have never had the privilege of listening to Portishead, I give you Roads:

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All morning, the web has been buzzing with an unusual rumor.

Apparently, it is said, Brit-mope band Radiohead is set to play a surprise free gig in Manhattan’s Zucotti Park. The location is host to the Occupy Wall Street protests, a fluctuating gathering of individuals that has been ongoing since September 17th. Although the group has no central stated goal yet, celebrities such as Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore have visited the protests since they began nearly two weeks ago and the rally continues to draw attention- as well as accusations mainstream media is, for the most part, ignoring the protests.

If it goes ahead as rumored, the purported Radiohead concert could raise the profile of the movement significantly. The band recently annoyed some New York City metro area fans when it sold out two tiny shows at the small-ish venue the Roseland Ballroom. Ticketmaster spokeswoman Jacqueline Peterson said at the time:

“We know people are frustrated, more than a half a million people were attempting to purchase just a couple of thousand Radiohead tickets, most people did not end up with tickets and are understandably disappointed… We are fans ourselves and we know the disappointment of not securing tickets to a highly anticipated event, this is why we work so diligently to evolve and provide ticketing solutions that help ensure that all of the tickets end up in the hands of real fans, not with scalpers.”

Radiohead reportedly denied the show at Occupy Wall Street was a go, but rumors persist. Regardless of whether the event goes ahead as rumors suggest, it’s likely to create some traffic snarls as well as mass transit congestion downtown as fans flock to the location just in case.

Occupy Wall Street Protest to Get Boost From Radiohead Performance? is a post from: The Inquisitr

XM fratboys Opie and Anthony have been doing their “Homeless Shopping Spree” stunt- where around a dozen homeless men from the streets of New York City are given $100 each to blow in a posh local mall- for about ten years now.

It’s demeaning and horrible and cruel and exploitative, although any of those words can generally be used to describe any segment of Opie and Anthony’s radio show as a whole. But sometimes good things come out of squicky things, and this clip is an odd moment of joy in an otherwise abhorrent publicity stunt. One of the contestants in this years upcoming “Homeless Shopping Spree,” a man known simply as “Mustard,” was given a guitar to play a song (he doesn’t own one, being homeless and all.) The man did a simple, bluesy-gruff cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” and it’s been getting passed around since because it’s pretty amazing.

You can read more about it here and here on Reddit, or here on Digg, but definitely check out the clip below:

Mustard sings Creep from Rex Kramer on Vimeo.

Homeless man’s cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” goes viral is a post from: The Inquisitr

Moore’s movie takes viewers along his journey through 62 cities in the 20 U.S. “swing states” that could heavily influence the November vote. Moore speaks to crowds to try to encourage young “slackers” to register to vote — and, not surprisingly, stirs up some controversy along the way.

It’s a risky move for Moore, whose last two documentaries were two of the three most profitable in movie-making history. So will it pay off? Well, financially, probably not. There doesn’t seem to be any major monetization or ad profit plan in place. While Moore does intend to eventually sell DVDs of the project, that certainly can’t compare to the box office cash it would have brought in.

Still, for a guy who probably doesn’t need the money, it may just be worthwhile in the end. As with Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want online album release experiment, the exposure and publicity may outshine any lack of direct income. That, of course, more than pays off down the road. With people already flocking to watch television online, the idea of a free Web movie release undoubtedly plays to a demographic’s video-centric habits — and love him or hate him, the outspoken jolly king of the documentary world may have stumbled onto a smart strategy. I suspect it won’t be the last semi-mainstream Internet movie premiere, but rather the first in a trend that’ll only move upward.

Online Movie Premiere: Will It Work? is a post from: The Inquisitr