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This morning, after a long week of delays and speculation, promoters finally released the official lineup for the 2009 Coachella festival. The headliners for each night of the 3-day desert fest will be The Cure, The Killers and Paul McCartney, with the usual strong stable of supporting acts filling out each day. The list was supposed to go out earlier this week, but unexplained scheduling conflicts kept pushing back the highly anticipated announcement, leaving festival goers only a few hours to take it all in before tickets went on sale at noon. Festival lineup delays are starting to become a worrisome trend in for 2009, with the announcement of the Bonnaroo-affiliated fest Langerado getting pushed back late last year before announcing an underwhelming lineup. While Coachella seems to have fared significantly better, the lineup is oddly frontloaded with several potential headliners (Macca and Morrissey, in particular) stacked on the first night, leaving the appealing, yet relatively green Killers to top off what is traditionally the main event on Saturday.

At what feels like one of the most hyped Pianos residencies since the Cold War Kids or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Passion Pit played their second of three consecutive weekly shows at the bar this week to another sold-out room. The white-hot kids from Cambridge, Mass play an indie-dance hybrid sound that feels remarkably light and fresh for such a recently tired genre. Michael Angelakos' piercing, almost feminine falsetto punctuates the mix of electronic beats and live instruments, creating a supremely listenable sound. Their debut EP comes out in a few weeks, and it'd be highly recommended to get tickets now for next weeks show while they are still available. This is certainly a band to watch.