Coachella Festival lineup is set

Depeche Mode, Tool, Franz Ferdinand, Paul Oakenfold, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sigur Ros and Common are scheduled to play the seventh edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will take over the small desert town of Indio on April 29 and 30. Tickets go on sale Saturday.

More than 80 acts are on the bill. Among other notables: Matisyahu, TV on the Radio, Danger Mouse, Damien Marley, HARD-Fi, She Wants Revenge, Cat Power and the Like.

Depeche Mode, which will close the first night on the main stage, keeps alive the festival’s tradition of revisiting musical heroes of the 1980s (past shows have featured the Cure, the Beastie Boys and the Pixies). Tool’s set for the Sunday show would revisit the festival’s first year, 1999, when that band memorably joined Rage Against the Machine on the closing night.

The concert is staged at Empire Polo Field and, although considered a big gamble in its early years, has become a template for U.S. stand-alone festivals. That same crowded marketplace has made it harder, though, for the festival’s promoters to maintain their ambition of new headliners each year, as Tool’s return proves. Last year, the festival single-day crowds reached 50,000, said Paul Tollett of Goldenvoice Presents, which created and promotes the event.