Live Daily — Jay-Z, Muse and the Gorillaz top the roster of acts for the 11th annual Coachella [ tickets ] Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will take over Indio, CA's Empire Polo Field April 16-18. As tipped by LiveDaily's Backline earlier this month, Pave... more info

MTV.com News — Pavement, Faith No More, Thom Yorke, Vampire Weekend also on the bill.By James Montgomery Jay-Z Photo: Raymond Boyd/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images Coachella has always been seen as the least traditional of the big U.S. music festival... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Wow...Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Fever Ray, Devo, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Mew, Camera..... more info

Stereogum — Coachella's officially announced the lineup for 2010 and, not surprisingly, it includes Pavement. Jay-Z, Gorillaz, Phoenix, and Muse are also hitting Indio with Sly & the Family Stone, Faith No More, PiL, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, Vampire Weekend... more info

Rolling Stone — When Rob Sheffield caught Echo & the Bunnymen in New York recently, frontman Ian McCulloch in rare form, pausing mid-song to announce, “Quiet down — this is a speech. If I play my cards right it might be a soliloquy. Can anyone spell soliloquy?â€... more info

Stereogum — The Cocteau Twin has collaborated with partner Damon Reece on an EP celebrating Echo & The Bunnymen's Jake Drake-Brockman, who died in a motorcycle accident in September. It's at iTunes now/on Rough Trade vinyl 1/26. There's an interview/preview at ... more info

The Culture Of Me — Preceded by the stellar performance from Echo and the Bunnymen lead Ian McCulloch in The Studio space at Webster Hall we happened to have been hosting with Sheena Beaston and East Village Radio, last Friday night at the electro portion... more info

The Culture Of Me — This past Friday night at Webster Hall's downstairs performance space, The Studio, East Village Radio, ourselves and Sheena Beaston hosted a very intimate and spectacularly frank performance from Echo and the Bunnymen front man and wild haired gent, ... more info

NME — Ian McCulloch says it'll be a 'master class' for other bands more info

Rock Sellout — Lately, I’ve been going back through my music collection and listening to music from a certain period. I’ve been going back to music that was created in the Thatcher/Regan era 80s. Back then, they were in a social and economic climate that is in... more info