Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg (who was just arrested after border control agents found marijuana on his tour bus — shocking we know), The Black Keys, and Radiohead are amongst those headlining Coachella this year. Harlem rapper Azealia Banks nabbed herself one of the first official spots at the California music and arts festival just days ago. Other acts have been revealed via Twitter in the weeks leading up to today’s Facebook announcement. Bon Iver, Arctic Monkeys, At the Drive-In (they hinted at their participation in a Tweet today, about breaking their 11-year silence) … who are you missing in this lineup slated for a double weekend celebration, on April 13-15 and April 20-22 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio? [via Stereogum]

Dangerous Minds points us to a fun contest that Coachella ran, inviting fans to create their dream Coachella line-ups for every year from 1969-1998 (the festival’s first year was ’99). They picked a winner for each year, and we’ve whittled them down to the most noteworthy Coachellas that never were, from Jimi, Zeppelin, and The Who in ’69 to Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, and Beck in ’97. Tell us who would headline your fantasy music festival in the comments.

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Editor’s note: Each Friday, our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed curate a post for us that’s filled with links to some of their favorite items on the web that week. Enjoy!

Pictures from last week’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival found their way back to civilization and the web has enjoyed gawking at the fanny-packed attendees and guessing what Vanessa Hudgens was spotted licking off of her fingers. Thanks to The Creators Project, more than 1200 glowing balloons fell from above during Arcade Fire’s performance, absolutely blowing this dude’s mind.

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1. Lady Gaga tweeted an image of the cover of her new album, Born This Way, over the weekend, and she inexplicably has a motorcycle body on it. Parodies immediately followed. Check out some of the best of them here.

2. In the wake of a lawsuit from a user who was sexually assaulted while on a Match.com date, the online dating site announced over the weekend that it plans to begin screening users to see if they have a history of being sex offenders. [via The Consumerist]

3. Yesterday, thousands of activists showed up at Chinese embassies and consulates around the world to protest China’s detention of artist Ai Weiwei 15 days ago; the “sit-ins” were inspired by Ai’s 2007 installation 1001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs. [via Eyeteeth]

4. Kanye West played a three-act set for an hour and 40 minutes at Coachella over the weekend that included multiple outfit changes and the debut of his Air Yeezy 2s; check out the highlights here.

5. A print of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ was attacked with hammers, icepicks and spray paint over the weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon, France; the museum is planning to leave the destroyed work up so the public can “appreciate the barbarity committed by extremists.” [via ANIMAL]

Bonus link: A Miniature Crossbow

Throwing a major music festival — especially during times like these — is a risky proposition. With high-profile ventures like All Points West tanking after only two years, we’re always worrying that our favorite event or tour won’t be back for another summer. So, now that most of the year’s biggest festivals have come and gone, we’re taking a look at how a handful of standbys fared in 2010 to predict whether we should start saving cash for 2011 tickets or get to work planning their funeral. Spoiler alert: In most cases, the prospects are less bleak than you’d expect.

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Last weekend marked the eleventh time that the folks at Goldenvoice have produced the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, bringing together over one hundred acts of disparate musical genres and throwing them all together in the desert heat to see what sticks and what melts away. This year’s Coachella had its fair share of legends (Sly Stone, Public Image Ltd.), indie darlings (She & Him, Vampire Weekend), titans of their genre (Jay-Z, Faith No More), and once-in-a-lifetime acts with production that you’ll never see anywhere else (Plastikman, Fever Ray, Orbital, and Gorillaz). It also had its fair share of snags: parking was a nightmare, huge crowds created gridlock, and there was a surprising lack of fantastic art other than an enormous white paper crane.

After the jump, read our power rankings for some of the acts who we saw at the festival, based on each band’s buzz points coming into their performances and cred gained or lost after the fact. You might be surprised by some of the results; if you were there, let us know who you saw at the festival and whether you agree with our judgments.

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1. Gary Numan (along with a slew of other British musicians), might not make it to Coachella because of the volcanic eruption. [via Brooklyn Vegan]
2. HBO has snagged the rights for three new docs from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney: Freakonomics, My Trip To Al-Qaeda, and his untitled Eliot Spitzer project. [via The Playlist]
3. This makes us super jealous of our West Coast friends: Pavement, Sonic Youth, and No Age will play a joint show at the Hollywood Bowl this September. [via 24Bit]
4. Chromeo will release their third album, Business Casual, on August 17. Fun fact: Solange Knowles lends guest vocals on one of the tracks. [via P4K]
5. We had no idea that Tracy Morgan had beef with Tobey Maguire… (video) [via HuffPo]

Bonus link: David Lynch’s Tips for a Great Prom

Global Inheritance is a growing network of progressive-minded citizens with well-developed artistic sides, who plan to save the world through art and music. Seriously.

The group is best known for its TRASHed: Art of Recycling campaign, in which artists transform waste bins into functional, portable galleries — a Coachella staple now expanding to Miami’s Ultra Festival and into Argentina. But there’s much more to the story — from LA’s recent (and Portland’s imminent) Environmentaland awareness pop-ups to human-powered DJ tents. Keep up — and do your part — via the Global Inheritance website.

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Seeing the moniker Thom Yorke??? on Coachella posters made us imagine someone shrieking the Radiohead musician’s name. Luckily, Yorke has quieted those shrieks by unveiling the official moniker of what he unofficially refers to as “the other band” — henceforth known as Atoms for Peace — which includes musicians Mauro Refosco, Joey Waronker, Flea, and Nigel Godrich. The group shares its name with a program initiated by Dwight Eisenhower that distributed nuclear technology to developing nations.

Accompanying this announcement was another (surprise!) announcement  — a list of U.S. tour dates that will lead up to their late-April performance at Coachella. Follow the jump for info on the tour dates and cities.

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After some traditional false starts, the real Coachella 2010 lineup is finally here! We’re dropping the full bill after the jump, but we’ve pulled out some of the highlights (IE, the names written in font that’s large enough to read sans magnifying glass) for those of you who simply can’t wait.

Friday, April 16
Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, the Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Bassi, Fever Ray

Saturday April 17
Muse, Faith No More, Tiesto, MGMT, David Guetta, the Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskae, 2ManyDJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip

Sunday, April 19
Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke???, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg

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