Coachella Set Times Released

Coachella has released its set times for at least this first weekend. Gonna be some tough decisions! Saturday really is the weakest day.

get scheduling!

Electric Daisy Carnival 2012 CONFIRMED Lineup Preview Announced

It's that time of year again - Festival Season 2012 is well under way. Ultra Music Festival has passed. For us West Coasters, next up is Coachella. I haven't been since 2008, so it's safe to say that I'm sufficiently stoked. Alliterations aside, I'm just as excited for Electric Daisy Carnival. No, I'm not talking about the much-hyped EDC New York. I'm talking about EDC Las Vegas - the big kahuna of North American electronic music festivals. And yes, that includes Ultra. Sorry Meeeyami, you rule the roost no longer.

According to MTV News, which earlier today released an exclusive official Phase-I lineup, EDC 2012 will feature many returning acts from 2011's wildly successful event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Here are the names:

• Tiësto 
• Steve Angello 
• Sebastian Ingrosso 
• Avicii 
• Benny Benassi 
• Kaskade 
• Afrojack 
• Above & Beyond 
• Armin van Buuren 
• Bassnectar 
• Calvin Harris 
• Carl Cox 
• Chase & Status 
• David Guetta 
• Erick Morillo 
• Flux Pavilion 
• Kaskade 
• Knife Party 
• Porter Robinson 
• Richie Hawtin 
• Umek 
• Thomas Gold 
• Mat Zo 
• ATB 
• Felix Cartal 
• Dirtyphonics 
• Sebastian Leger 

Looking awesome so far. Insomniac, and EDC especially, has a history of releasing their lineups very late in the game, unlike Electric Zoo and Ultra. Who cares though-I've never been disappointed with an EDC lineup, and I've been 5 years in a row. Having been to last year's Ultra and 2 Electric Zoos, I can confidently say that EDC is the best electronic music festival of the three-and arguably in the USA. Coachella isn't really comparable to EDC; it would be apples and oranges, though Coachella does boast an quite an incredible lineup of DJs and electronic musicians this year.

This part's JUST FOR FUN. THESE AREN'T CONFIRMED (Yet?). And no, Daft Punk will NOT be performing. Sorry. They've been rumored to be playing EDC EACH OF THE FIVE YEARS I'VE BEEN. It's not happening. In any case, here are some acts (some are very underground) I'd love to see in Vegas this summer:

• Dubfire 
• Moby 
• Infected Mushroom 
• Feed Me 
• Skrillex 
• Deadmau5
• Carlo Lio 
• Loco Dice 
• Eric Prydz 
• Sasha 
• John Digweed 
• Joris Voorn 
• The Chemical Brothers 
• Sven Vath 
• Ricardo Villalobos

Let's hope at least some of these make the cut. Either way, it's gonna be fucking wild.

Buy tickets, book hotels, and make other arrangements for Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas here.