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The Cure performs at the 2009 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., Sunday, April 19, 2009. Richard Lui, The Desert Sun

Coachella '09 takes silver for crowds

Despite rampant unemployment in the region, the Coachella Music and Arts Festival recorded its second-highest attendance in its 10-year history during the weekend.

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Who pulled the plug on The Cure?

Frontman Robert Smith (left) leads The Cure on the Coachella Stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival held at the Empire Polo Fields on Sunday in Indio. Michelle Yee Special to The Desert Sun

The Cure's performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival came to a grinding halt when the promoter pulled the plug on the band early Monday.

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Plug pulled on The Cure

Robert Smith of The Cure

The Cure’s performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival came to a grinding halt when the promoter pulled the plug on the band early Monday morning. More

The Cure closes Coachella for 2009

Robert Smith of The Cure Richard Lui, The Desert Sun

The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs helped Coachella 2009 present a strong closing argument Sunday for its third consecutive Pollstar Award as the world's best music festival.

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Coachella music fest flies high

Opening night headliner: Paul McCartney launched America's economically challenged destination music festival season on Friday with two-and-a-half hours of positive notes. More


2010 Coachella Music Festival

What: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

When: Friday, April 16 - Sunday, April 18, 2010

Where: Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, California

For more information: coachella.com

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2009 Coachella lineup

Friday, April 17

Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Beirut, The Black Keys, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, The Ting Tings, The Crystal Method, Ghostland Observatory, Crystal Castles, The Airborne Toxic Event, We Are Scientists, N.A.S.A., Patton & Rahzel, M. Ward, The Presets, The Hold Steady, A Place to Bury Strangers, Felix de Housecat, Buraka Som Sistema, Ryan Bingham, Bajofondo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Noah & the Whale, White Lies, The Bug, Alberta Cross, Los Campesinos!, Craze & Klever, Molotov, Switch, Gui Boratto, Steve Aoki, The Aggrolites, Genghis Tron, People Under the Stairs, The Courteneers, Cage the Elephant, Dear and the Headlights

Saturday, April 18

The Killers, Thievery Corporation, The Chemical Brothers (DJ set), TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Atmosphere, Mastodon, TRAV$DJ-AM, Henry Rollins, Crookers, Jenny Lewis, Turbonegro, Hercules and Love Affair, Superchunk, Glasvegas, Dr. Dog, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T & the DBT's, Amanda Palmer, Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Para One, Calexico, Liars, Bob Mould Band, Junior Boys, Zane Lowe, Electric Touch, Blitzen Trapper, James Morrison, Drop the Lime, Glass Candy, Thenewno2, Gang Gang Dance, Billy Talent, Ida Maria, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Zizek Club, Cloud Cult, Tinariwen

Sunday, April 19

The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Throbbing Gristle, Lupe Fiasco, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, X, The Orb, Antony & the Johnsons, Roni Size Reprazent, Public Enemy, Groove Armada (DJ set), Etienne De Crecy, Devendra Banhart, Murder City Devils, Paolo Nutini, Christopher Lawrence, Lykke Li, The Kills, Okkervil River, M.A.N.D.Y., Clipse, Plump DJs, Busy P, Sebastien Tellier, F***D Up, Perry Farrell, The Horrors, Late of the Pier, K'naan, Junior Boys, Brain Jonestown Massacre, Supermayer, No Age, Vivian Girls, Shepard Fairey, Themselves, Friendly Fires, Gaslight Anthem, The Knux, Mexican Institute of Sound, The Night Marchers, Marshall Barnes