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Blur, the Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers top the lineup for the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which was unveiled late on Thursday night on Jan. 24. The annual fest is set to once again take over Indio, Calif. on consecutive weekends, this year from Apr. 12-14 and Apr. 19-21. Friday night is topped by a pair of recently reunited British alt-rock bands, Blur and the Stone Roses, who both recently performed overseas while side-stepping the States (Blur frontman Damon Albarn's side project Gorillaz headlined Coachella in 2010). Other notable Friday artists include the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who will release new album Mosquito in April; How To Destroy Angels, the latest project from Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor; the reunited L.A. rap collective Jurassic 5; and Alt-J, who recently won the Mercury Music Prize in the U.K. French indie-rockers Phoenix, whose Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix follow-up Bankrupt! is expected to be released this spring, tops the Saturday lineup, with the reunited Postal Service also performing on the middle day of the festival. Indie mainstays like Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, the xx and Sigur Ros are also slated for Saturday performances, while a generous portion of hip-hop (Danny Brown, El-P, Pusha T and even 2 Chainz!) is also scheduled for April 13 and 20. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, who served as headliners at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza in 2012, will cap off the festival on Sunday night, with Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion and the Wu-Tang Clan poised for the final day of the fest. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are also scheduled for Sunday, two days after Cave's other band, Grinderman, performs at Coachella. One artist noticeably absent from the 2013 lineup is the Rolling Stones, who were rumored to be headlining after the festival appeared momentarily on the band's iPhone app last month. The Stones had since denied their inclusion on the 2013 bill. Top-line dance/electronica artists are also surprisingly scarce on this year's lineup, after artists like Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Calvin Harris and Afrojack filled out the 2012 bill. Bassnectar, Eric Prydz and Paul Oakenfold are among the EDM stars set to rock Coachella 2013. Tickets for this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will go on sale have been on sale since Tuesday (Jan. 29). Coachella 2012 was topped by the Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, who brought out a very special guest, Tupac Shakur (in hologram form). So try and get a ticket somehow and dont miss the festival of the year!!! -http://www.billboard.com Complete lineup: Friday, April 12 & 19 Blur, The Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, Jurassic 5, Grinderman, Bassnectar, Dog Blood, How to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Tegan and Sara, Band of Horses, Beach House, Metric, Local Natives, Of Monsters and Men, Infected Mushroom, Japandroids, Divine Fits, Stars, Johnny Marr, Luciano, Wolfgang Gartner, Nicky Romero, Modestep, Tommy Trash, Thomas Gold, the Shouting Matches, Dillon Francis, Four Tet, Aesop Rock, Alt-J, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, TNGHT, Jake Bugg, Earl Sweatshirt, Polica, Sparks, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Purity Ring, Lee Scratch Perry, Dam-Funk, DJ Harvey, Jamie xx, Seth Troxler, Youth Lagoon, Deathfix, C2C, Beardyman, Lord Huron, Palma Violets, IO Echo, Skinny Lister, the Neighbourhood, Sam XL Pure Filth Sound Saturday, April 13 and 20 Phoenix, the XX, the Postal Service, Sigur Ros, New Order, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, Knife Party, Benny Benassi, Two Door Cinema Club, Moby, Descendents, Yeasayer, Franz Ferdinand, Violent Femmes, Simian Mobile Disco, Spiritualized, Puscifer, Cafe Tacuba, Portugal, the Man, the Make-Up, Bat for Lashes, Richie Hawtin, Major Lazer, Fedde Le Grand, Dropkick Murphys, FOALS, Ben Howard, 2 Chainz, Janelle Monae, Danny Brown, Wild Nothing, Booka Shade, Bingo Players, Allen Stone, El-P, the Selecter, Pusha T, Kill the Noise, the Evens, Biffy Clyro, Theophilus London, Baauer, Zane Lowe, Trash Talk, Birdy Nam Nam, Action Bronson, Jason Bentley, the Wombats, Guards, Mona, Savages, Shovels & Rope, Huoratron, Kurt Vile, Reignwolf, Cassy, 3Ball MTY, Kids These Days, the 2 Bears, the Colourist, Vintage Trouble Sunday, April 14 and 21 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion, Wu-Tang Clan, Pretty Lights, Eric Prydz, Tame Impala, the Lumineers, Dead Can Dance, La Roux, James Blake, Excision Grimes, the Gaslight Anthem, the Faint, Hardwell, Paul Oakenfold, Dinosaur Jr., Raider Klan, OMD, Roni Size, the Airborne Toxic Event, Father John Misty, Tanlines, Rodriguez, Alex Clare, Paul Kalkbrenner, Jessie Ware, Loco Dice, Jamie Jones, the Three O'Clock, Disclosure, Mimosa, Cloud Nothings, Parov Stelar Band, Julio Bashmore, Thee Oh Sees, Dub Fx, Maya Jane Coles, JEFF the Brotherhood, Smith Westerns, Dirtyphonics, Joris Voorn, Hanni El Khatib, Danny Avila, Ghost, DIIV, Little Green Cars, Mord Fustang, James McCartney, Unicorn Kid, Robert DeLong, White Arrows, Deep Vally, Wild Belle, Adrian Lux, Ladies Night