The Coachella lineup for 2012 was announced late yesterday, and as Larry David might say, it’s looking pretty… pretty… pretty good. The Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg top the three days, with M83, Bon Iver, Miike Snow, The Weeknd, Feist, St. Vincent, Beirut, Girl Talk, SBTRKT, tUnE-yArDs and about a billion more rounding out the lineup. Coachella 2012 even has its reunion comebacks.
But unlike Coachella 2011, when the taste for comebacks seemed to be for ’80s revivals like Duran Duran, this year’s reunions are decidedly ’90s-era: Mazzy Star, Pulp and most notably At the Drive-In.
This means is that the movement that began petitioning Coachella for a Phil Collins appearance last year after Duran Duran returned to the scene fell on deaf ears.
It was a tough year for Phil Collins: he announced that he was quitting music this spring because he thinks no one likes him anymore. He took it back publicly, but we all know he’s feeling under-appreciated. The spontaneous Phil Collins parade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last year was charming but it wasn’t exactly a large-scale cultural happening.
We’ll go to Coachella this year and we’ll like it—we’ll freak out to At the Drive-In and it will rule. But we’re not giving up hope—we’ve waited this long, we can wait another year: Phil Collins, Coachella ’13.
