this is somewhat old news, but i just stumbled upon it.

this years coachella valley music and arts festival is shaping up to be one heck of a 3-day weekend. while none of this has been confirmed on the official coachella website, consequence of sound has numerous confirmed and rumored artists set to appear. some of the confirmed include hot chip, passion pit, the raveonettes, phoenix, devo, and the xx and some of the rumored include gorillaz, the avett brothers, elvis costello, mew, and tegan & sara. i’m crossing my fingers for mew and gorillaz.

the knife is set to release their newest studio album, “tomorrow, in a year” on march 9th (a digital download will be available feb 2nd). this follow up to 2006’s “silent shout” is a collaboration with mt. sims and plannintorock and is an opera for the danish theater company hotel pro forma that tells the story of darwin’s “on the origin of species”. check out one of the tracks from the upcoming release below.

the antlers are gearing up for a short north american tour beginning at the end of january with ra ra riot and the editors. the antlers brought us one of the best albums of 2009 and are blowing up right now, so do yourself a favor and check them out when they are in your area.