Gli organizzatori del Coachella, tra i migliori festival statunitensi, hanno scelto gli headliner e comunicato i nomi degli artisti che parteciperanno all'undicesima edizione. Anche quest'anno la kermesse, in cartellone dal 16 al 18 aprile, si svolgerà a Indio, California. La tornata del 2009 fece accorrere quasi 153.000 spettatori per un incasso di 15 milioni di dollari. Gli headliner 2010 sono Jay-Z, Muse e Gorillaz. Il bill è il seguente:
Venerdì 16 aprile: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, Avett Brothers, Calle 13, Whitest Boy Alive, Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.
Sabato 17 aprile: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria,
Kaskade, 2Many DJ's, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.
Domenica 18 aprile: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke (da conf.), Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, Middle East, Hadouken!, Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.
