# 2013 Coachella Music Festival Kicks Off Today; Coachella Playlist and Live YouTube Webcast from Indio

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2013/04/2013-coachella-music-festival-kicks-off-today-coachella-playlist-and-live-youtube-webcast-from-indio/
- Published: 2013-04-12T07:19:52-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

The ferris wheel at Coachella Valley in Indio, California. Coachella 2013 starts
today.

The 2013 music festival season gets under way in just a few hours with the 2013 **
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival** in **Indio**, California.

While last month’s **[South By Southwest](https://indierockcafe.com/2013/03/sxsw-2013-best-bands-spotify-playlists-10-free-sxsw-music-samplers-and-9000-song-sxsw-torrents/)**
in **Austin** is the biggest musical event each year in sheer numbers, it is not
a musical festival per se.

Coachella is considered the crown jewel of the big outdoor music festivals in the
U.S., followed by Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Sasquatch. Over
the past five years, as the popularity of music festivals has soared, spawning many
new festivals (including **Outside Lands** in **San Francisco**) [Coachella](https://indierockcafe.com/category/coachella/)
marks the beginning of the outdoor music festival season.

As of 7 a.m. Friday morning, thousands are streaming into the camp grounds and parking
lots for this weekend’s big music and arts party in the middle of the southern California
desert east of **San Diego** and just down the road from the **Palm Springs** city
limits. Over the past few years, Coachella has become so big, and the demand for
tickets so overwhelming, that organizers from **Golden Voice Productions** added
a second weekend starting in 2012. That move was a huge success that organizers 
announced within weeks of last year’s event that there would be two weekend festivals
for 2013 as well. If you’re going to Coachella for the first time, either this weekend,
or next weekend, it is strongly advised to read the rules about passes, will call,
wristbands, vehicles, camping and parking. Over the years, we’ve heard plenty of
unfortunate stories about people not being able get in to the campgrounds or the
festival grounds themselves. For example, if you purchase a pass from a third party
source (like online ‘ticketing’ sites) or scalpers, you won’t get in.

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If you’re one of the millions that wish they could go to Coachella this year, but
can’t, the next best thing is available – [Coachella Live on YouTube](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/coachella)!

View **ENTV**‘s analysis of the [Coachella 2013 headliners announcement,](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CX24_aIVuJA)
with coverage of Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Blur, The Postal Service, Wu-Tang Clan,
Phoenix and also **Fuse TV**‘s review of the [Coachella lineup](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wCt6UHOpnUg)
for 2013.

In celebration of Coachella 2013, IRC has put together a special and extensive [ Coachella 2013 Headliners Spotify Playlist](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/4kAvxfeUa2c4XL6dKaUU2S)
of headliners. The embedded playlist below features many of the other great bands
playing this weekend.

**[ Coachella 2013 Headliners Spotify Playlist](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/4kAvxfeUa2c4XL6dKaUU2S)**

The opening day of Coachella 2013, today, **Friday, April 12th** (and April 17th),
includes headliners like Blur, The Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Lou
Reed, Jurassic 5, Grinderman, as well as artists like Bassnectar, Dog Blood, How
to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Tegan and Sara, Band of Horses, Beach House, Metric,
Local Natives, Of Monsters and Men, Japandroids, Divine Fits, Stars, Johnny Marr,
and Alt-J, to name just a few.

For **Saturday, April 13th** (and April 20th), headliners include Phoenix, the XX,
the Postal Service, Sigur Ros, New Order, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, along with secondary
acts like Knife Party, Two Door Cinema Club, Moby, Descendents, Yeasayer, Franz 
Ferdinand, Violent Femmes, Portugal, the Man, Bat for Lashes, Richie Hawtin, Major
Lazer, Fedde Le Grand, Dropkick Murphys, FOALS, and many others.

For **Sunday, April 14th** (and April 21st), headliners include Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion, Wu-Tang Clan, and
non-headliners like Pretty Lights, Tame Impala, the Lumineers, Dead Can Dance, La
Roux, James Blake, Excision Grimes, the Gaslight Anthem, the Faint, Hardwell, Paul
Oakenfold, Dinosaur Jr., OMD, Airborne Toxic Event, Father John Misty, Tanlines,
Rodriguez, Mimosa, Cloud Nothings, and many, many more.

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View the entire lineup by clicking on the official 2013 Coachella poster