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From: "Arthurbang2@aol.com" <arthurbang2@aol.com>
> I'll be headed to coachella again this year for all 3 days but there 
> don't seem to be as many artists that we are excited to see as there 
> usually are.  Does anyone have any suggestions on who we shouldn't 
> miss?

This sort of festival has never been my idea of a good time (I just 
find them tiring, and end up hunting around for a quiet place to read 
a book), if I were going this year, I'd be trying to make these sets:

Friday:

Beirut
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Franz Ferdinand
Girl Talk
Leonard Cohen
Los Campesinos!
M. Ward
Paul McCartney
Peanut Butter Wolf
The Courteeners
The Ting Tings

Saturday:

Amanda Palmer
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Band Of Horses
Bob Mould Band
Calexico
Fleet Foxes
Gang Gang Dance
Glasvegas
Jenny Lewis
Junior Boys
Superchunk
Turbonegro

Sunday:

Antony and the Johnsons
Late of the Pier
Lupe Fiasco
Lykke Li
Mexican Institute of Sound
My Bloody Valentine
No Age
Okkervil River
Peter Bjorn and John
The Knux
The Orb
Throbbing Gristle
Vivian Girls
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