Chemical Brothers, the Orb and three more added to Coachella lineup

Coachella festival producers Goldenvoice are beefing up the dance offerings this year with a few notable additions to the 2009 lineup. The Chemical Brothers, Etienne De Crecy and the Orb are all now confirmed as late additions.

Additionally, Devendra Banhart and Murder City Devils will join the three-day annual fete in the desert next month.  The Chemical Brothers appearance is a DJ set only, meaning they will be playing other material besides their own catalog of dance-floor staples in a more casual performance devoid of all the bells and whistles.

Speculation that the Chemical Brothers would return to the festival (they last performed at Coachella in 2005) reached a fever pitch earlier this year when television spots featuring the band's "Block Rockin' Beats" started airing on local cable television. Message boards on the official Coachella site lit up accordingly with rumors that the band would return to Indio, along with, of course, plenty of riffing from fans that the TV spots might imply that ticket sales were slow.

Coachella head Paul Tollett confirmed the additions today to a new magazine that Goldenvoice is sponsoring dubbed coachelladigital.com.

-- Charlie Amter

Ed Simons, left, and Tom Rowlands from the Chemical Brothers. Picture courtesy Astralwerks

Comments

[Samantha Baker]

Yawn--wake me up when they add Animal Collective.

[product342]

YAWN, Animal Collective = most overrated group around.

[Samantha Baker]

Uh-huh, yeah "product342." As someone who I'm sure never even heard of AC before their latest album, you're definitely the authority as to how "overrated" they are. Then again, it is the American way to dismiss that which you don't understand.