Though the official line-up won't be announced until tomorrow, URB Magazine is reporting that UK trip hop duo Portishead will headline this summer's Coachella Festival in Indio, California.
Radiohead has also to have been rumored to take part in Coachella, but word is the band will headline an East Coast version of the two-day festival, held at New Jersey's Liberty State Park across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. Organized by Goldenvoice/AEG Live, the "Coachella: East" will operate under different nomenclature. Here's hoping My Bloody Valentine is included in tomorrow's "Coachella: West" news, making a Portishead/MBV a worthy headline team and further confirming Max Infomation's notion that we as a culture are sentenced to relive the '90s for all eternity.
Regardless, this is exciting shit, as I haven't seen Portishead since 1997 at Hammerstein Ballroom, and I will forever hate myself for passing up tickets to see Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow at the Roseland a year later, when they performed with an orchestra on the floor and recorded a live album and DVD. But the Hammerstein show was among the best I've ever seen.
Also worth noting is that a new Portishead album is expected to arrive in April. Though without a proper title, a bunch of new songs were performed in December at the All Tomorrow's Parties fest in England, including "Wicca," "Mystic," and "Machine Gun." It was Portishead's first live performance in a decade, and the new album will be the first of new material since the eponymous album dropped in 1997.
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