Coachella Music & Arts Festival Tickets

Your Source for the Best Coachella Music & Arts Festival 2007 TicketsApril 27 Arctic Monkeys, Benny Benassi, Björk, Gogol Bordello, Brazilian Girls, Brother Ali, Busdriver, Circa Survive, Jarvis Cocker, Comedians of Comedy, Digitalism, DJ Shadow, El-P, Evil Nine, Faithless, Felix da Housecat, David Guetta, Interpol, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stephen Marley featuring Jr. Gong, Nickel Creek, Noisettes, Peaches, Peeping Tom, Silversun Pickups, Sonic Youth, Tilly and the Wall, Tokyo Police Club, Julieta Venegas, Rufus Wainwright, Gillian Welch, Amy WinehouseApril 28 !!!, The Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, The Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, CocoRosie, Cornelius, The Cribs, The Decemberists, Roky Erickson and the Explosives, Fields, Fountains of Wayne, The Frames, The Fratellis, Ghostface Killah, Girl Talk, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Gotan Project, Hot Chip, Jack's Mannequin, Justice, Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, MSTRKRFT, The New Pornographers, The Night Watchman, Ozomatli, Peter Bjorn and John, Pharaohe Monch, The Rapture, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mike Relm, Sparklehorse, Regina Spektor, Travis, Tiësto, VNV NationApril 29 Against Me!, Air, Lily Allen, Anathallo, The Avett Brothers, Manu Chao, The Coup, Crowded House, Explosions in the Sky, CSS, Fair to Midland, The Feeling, José González, Grizzly Bear, Richie Hawtin, Happy Mondays, Infected Mushroom, Junior Boys, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons, Konono N°1, The Kooks, Amos Lee, Lupe Fiasco, Mando Diao, Mika, Willie Nelson, Placebo, Rage Against the Machine, Ratatat, Damien Rice, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Roots, Soulwax, Spank Rock, Tapes 'n Tapes, Teddybears, Paul van Dyk.-------------------------------------------------------- -----------The first Coachella festival was held on October 10th and 11th in 1999, just a mere three months after the disastrous Woodstock 99 festival. Due to the fires and riots of Woodstock, Coachella promoters weren't allowed to offer onsite camping to its visitors, a ban that would continue until the 2002 festival. In a protest to the widely-criticized Woodstock festival, which was notorious for its $4 bottles of water, Coachella promoters handed out a free bottle of water to all attendees.About 25,000 people attended the inaugural event throughout the two days, which saw headlining acts such as Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Tool, and Rage Against the Machine. Other acts included Jurassic 5, DJ Shadow, and Underworld. Originally, promoters had hoped to make the event three days (Friday-Sunday) and even considered the UK band Massive Attack to be the third day headliner - but those plans never came to fruition. The event went smoothly, with the biggest complaints being the blistering heat. It is reported, however, that the event failed to generate any profit, which nearly put an end to the festival.No festival took place in 2000, likely due to the financial troubles of the inaugural festival. In 2001, however, festival organizers decided to give it another try. They decided to move the event to April (to avoid the intense heat of the late summer), and it was only scheduled for one day, most likely due to a tighter budget. However, the 2001 organizers once again ran into some trouble organizing the festival. Just months before the event was to occur, promoters still did not have a big headliner, and the festival was once again at risk of turning a net loss. In a surprise move, promoters turned to friend Perry Farrell, and were able to bring a reunited Jane's Addiction to the main stage as the event's headlining act.In 2002, the event once again returned to the two-day format, and saw a reunited Siouxsie & the Banshees, as well as headlining acts Björk and Oasis. That year's event also had perhaps the strongest roster of supporting acts to date, with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, The Strokes, and Paul Oakenfold being large draws and helping prove to the community of Indio, California that the event was capable of bringing in money and ending without conflict.Following the 2002 festival, Coachella began to generate large-scale interest, and the 2003 festival featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Beastie Boys (as well as a reunited Iggy Pop and The Stooges) drew the largest crowd yet. Around this time, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival began to develop worldwide interest.The 2004 event, featuring a reunion of the Pixies, as well as Radiohead, The Cure, Kraftwerk and a number of other major bands, was the event's first sellout, with 50,000 tickets sold for each Saturday and Sunday. Since then, the festival has continued to generate large draws due to strong lineups from top to bottom, including such bands as Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Tool, Daft Punk, and Massive Attack.Each year, the festival also features interesting installation art and sculptures. Many of the artists displaying work and staging performances at the festival have also appeared at the Burning Man festival. Most of the pieces are interactive, and provide entertainment and eye candy for attendees walking throughout the Polo grounds. In contrast to the largely non-repeating roster of musical artists represented at the festival, a few of the visual artists, such as Robochrist Industries and The Mutaytor, have appeared during several consecutive years at Coachella.