Coachella 2016 Lineup Announced

Today the good folks at Goldenvoice released the official lineup for Coachella 2016. This year's event at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, Californiia will take place Friday, April 15-Sunday, April 17 and Friday, April 22-Sunday, April 24. The lineups are supposed to duplicate, however, as we know something always comes up and so you really never know what you're going to get either weekend. Imagine if the SoCal El Nino is really so intense that it pours both weekends!?

Anyway, I'm sure everyone is chiming in about the hits and misses on the lineups, I honestly have no opinion except that I always get excited about what secret shows are going to happen between the weekends. Grimes, if you're listening, please play an all ages show in San Diego and you will make Darren and Nova's life.

The bigger question is HOW DO YOU GET TICKETS? Well, good luck with that. But seriously, you can start buying tickets on Wednesday, January 6 at 11am. You can read full instructions here, and follow this to the purchase link.

Here's my sage advise: Coachella is ticketed through Frontgate. Make sure you have a Frontgate account with a current credit card. Like now. Long before Wednesday. And have a Coachella account. These may or may not be the same thing. I'm not that sage.

When you try to purchase tickets, know exactly what you are trying for: Weekend 2 GA, Weekend 1 GA + Shuttle, Weekend 2 GA + Shuttle, Weekend 1 VIP, or Weekend 2 VIP. If you can't get in, can't get through, or otherwise think all has failed, instead of bitching on FB (or bragging because nobody GAF), refresh your browser. Refresh it a million times. Or at least 20. As I've said before, transactions time out, people change their mind on how many passes to buy, credit cards bounce back, and eventually those tickets release back into inventory, so even if it looks sold out in the first minute, or 5 minutes, or 10 minutes, it might not actually be. And we're talking about a 99,000 or so capacity event each weekend.

So good luck. Come April, I'll be watching drinking some craft beer at home, enjoying Couchella on YouTube on our giant plasma TV.

If you need the text lineup, I took the time to type it out after the jump.



Coachella 2016 Lineup (TEXT)

FRIDAY
LCD Soundsystem
Ellie Goulding
Sufjan Stevens
Jack U
M83
Underworld
The Kills
Foals
Of Monsters and Men
G-Eazy
Purity Ring
Rae Sremmurd
Volbeat
2manydj's
Lord Huron
St Germain
Savages
The Last Shadow Puppets
Joey Bada$$
DJ Mustard
BORNS
Christine and the Queens
Snakeships
Robert Delong
Bob Moses
Goldroom
Carla Morrison
Nic Fanciulli
The Front Bottoms
Skepta
Sam Feldt
Lemaitre
Louis The Child
Frances
Mbongwana Star
Nina Las Vegas
Nora Es Pure
Masha

SATURDAY
Guns N' Roses
Ice Cube
Disclosure
Zedd
A$ap Rocky
Chvrches
Halsey
James Bay
Grimes
Courtney Barnett
Run The Jewels
The Arcs
RL Grime
Gary Clark Jr
Silversun Pickups
Lush
Zhu
Deerhunter
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Rhye
Bat For Lashes
The Damned
Vince Staples
Tchami
Nina Kraviz
Snails
Rufus Du Soul
Lost Frequencies
Chronixx
Vanic
Justin Martin
Alana George
Mano Le Tough
Shamir
DJ Koze
BADBADNOTGOOD
Moon Taxi
SZA
Ex Hex
Mr Carmack
SOPHIE
Proteje
Alvvays
Zella Day
Dubfire
Matthew Dear
DMA's
Matoma
Algiers
GoGo Penguin
The Black Madonna
Cloves
Strangers You Know
Amino Edge & DANCE
Phases
The Dead Ships

SUNDAY
Calvin Harris
Sia
Major Lazer
Flume
Beach House
The 1975
Rancid
Miike Snow
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Matt and Kim
Chris Stapleton
Cold War Kids
Death Grips
The Chainsmokers
Maceo Plex
Baauer
KSHMR
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Terrors
Adam Beyer & Ida Engberg
Wolf Alice
Pete Yorn
Hudson Mohawke
Kamasi Washington
Claptone
TOKiMONSTA
Melody's Echo Chamber
Autolux
John Digweed
Thomas Jack
Anderson .Paak
Nosaj Thing
Deafheaven
Epik High
Tensnake
Alessia Cara
Crystal Fighters
The Vandals
Joywave
PRAYERS
Young Fathers
The Heavy
Tei Shi
Meg Myers
Soul Clap
Cassy
De Lux
Girlpool
Fur Coat
AC Slater