The War On Drugs, Alt-J among those confirmed for this year’s Coachella Festival

The War On Drugs, Alt-J, David Byrne and Fleet Foxes are among those confirmed on the line-up for this year’s Coachella Festival, which is to be headlined by The Weeknd, Beyonce and Eminem.

Others on the bill for two consecutive weekends in April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California include Haim, St Vincent, Nile Rodgers, Benjamin Booker and Alvvays.

The War On Drugs have just featured prominently on Live4ever’s 2017 retrospective, with the Holding On single placed at #1 on our Tracks countdown and its parent LP included in the Albums Of The Year list.

“In a sense, A Deeper Understanding is all about relationships – ours with each other, Americans with their own identity, the fractious present with a misrepresented past – so when on Knocked Down the listener hears, ‘far away there is a star/Raining through the night sky like a drop/Give ’em all a piece of the moon for me’, maybe it’s a call for the human race to seek enlightenment elsewhere,” the review reads.

“If such a journey is required, The War On Drugs’ fourth album could be its soundtrack. This is an American band making America great again in the truest sense of the phrase, a vital slogan before its hijacking by fascism, a quest heralded by voices from the country’s grand, ridiculous, nostalgic soul and its sometimes epic, beautiful heart of lightness.”