NEW YORK (Billboard) - Veteran electro-pop act Depeche Mode will headline the first night of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (April 29-30) in southern California, sources said Monday.
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Additional talent offers are still in the process of being made and the first extensive list of artist announcements is likely several weeks away, they added.
The event, now in its seventh year, will take place, as usual, at the 50,000-capacity Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. Last year's headliners were Coldplay and Nine Inch Nails.
In the meantime, the festival will be the subject of the two-hour retrospective documentary "Coachella," which will premiere January 19 at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theater and roll out January 24 to additional U.S. theaters.
"Coachella" rounds up some of the most iconic performances from throughout the fest's history, stretching back to Morrissey at the inaugural 1999 show up through a 2005 clip of the Arcade Fire. In between is footage of such acts as Bjork, Radiohead, the Pixies, the White Stripes, the Chemical Brothers, Oasis, the Flaming Lips, Iggy & the Stooges, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kool Keith and Beck, among many others.
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