The Coachella 2007 lineup was posted today, with some especially surprising news that Rage Against The Machine, who broke up in 2000, will be headlining on Sunday, April 29, the last of three days of musical mayhem.

Apparently it will only be for this one show, but I still wonder about the possibilities. Obviously enough reconciliation has happened that vocalist Zach De La Rocha is willing to share the stage with his former band mates (now known as the non-vocal portion of radio rockers Audioslave), so it doesn’t seem too far a stretch for them to realize how much chemistry they had on stage, and that maybe, just maybe, they’ll start to miss it. Hey, let me dream, OK?

Other notable Coachella confirmations (aka the ones I really care about) include: Björk, Interpol, Explosions In The Sky, The Jesus And Mary Chain (whaa?), Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Sonic Youth, Nickel Creek, Damien Rice, We Are Scientists, Comedians Of Comedy, Circa Survive, Gillian Welch, Kings Of Leon, The New Pornographers, The Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, !!!, Regina Spektor, Jack’s Mannequin, The Nightwatchman, Andrew Bird, Girl Talk, Amos Lee, Ratatat and Anathallo.

Others festivals are on the horizon as well. I previously mentioned SXSW, and the Pitchfork Music Festival was recently announced to be taking place mid-July in Chicago.

This onslaught of news kinda makes me wish I were independently wealthy and could travel anywhere at any time.

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post that things are finally starting to pick up for 2007, the confirmed-so-far lineup of 240 (yes, 240) artists for this year’s SXSW festival in Austin has been posted.

Here are the artists that make me wonder if I should trek my way out to Texas this year:

• 65daysofstatic
• Aqualung
• Architecture In Helsinki
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Bloc Party
• Blonde Redhead
• Circa Survive
• Cold War Kids
• Cute Is What We Aim For
• Daniel Johnston
• Diplo
• Emmylou Harris
• Girl Talk
• I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
• Interpol
• Kings Of Leon
• Les Savy Fav
• Lily Allen
• Malajube
• Mates Of State
• Matt & Kim
• Morrissey
• Okkervil River
• Ozomatli
• Pete Townshend
• Rocky Votolato
• Scissor Sisters
• The Stooges
• The Walkmen
• These Arms Are Snakes
• Thunderbirds Are Now!
• Viva Voce
• Voxtrot
• Watson Twins

Sorry for the posting hiatus. The music world tends to hibernate for the few weeks surrounding Christmas and New Years, but things are finally starting to pick up again (new Shins, Six Parts Seven, Deerhoof, Clinic, Of Montreal, Fujiya & Miyagi releases next week! Woo!).

The only thing I have to really discuss is the upcoming RPM Challenge 2007, where musicians all over the world unite with the common goal of recording an album during the 28 days of February. It’s a fun and supportive community. I’ve joined with my solo project, Saviors, which is/will be my instrumental post rock alter ego. We’ll see how that goes. I’m blogging my progress over there. It should be fun.

Oh, and one more fun little link: check out a couple Jimi Hendrix remixes. The Jimi/Jay-Z mashup Voodoo Problems is especially awesome.