Last Monday, Coachella announced its line up for it’s 2012 festival, which included a handful of cult favorites, its-about-time reunions and three sick headliners. Last Friday, tickets went on sale and were sold out in less than 3 hours, for both weekends. Yes, two weekends.

Last June, Coachella threw all of its fans a curve ball when, two months after Coachella 2011, they announced that they were having a pre-sale for the 2012 festival AND that it was expanding to two weekends. Here’s the kicker, it won’t be weekends with different bands, but with the exact same bands playing the same schedule.

How delightful!

Fast forward to the present, Coachella 2012, over two weekends, is sold out! And how can it not be with probably the most unforeseen line-up (and in my opinion probably the best) in it’s history. Headliners — The Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg lead some of the most exciting and inspiring bands in recent times. Pulp, Refused and At The Drive-In are all reuniting with a stop-in at Coachella (Pulp started their reunion a year ago). A grab bag of well-known acts like Florence and the Machine, Bon Iver and Swedish House Mafia mix with hipster darlings like Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds, Amon Tobin and DJ Shadow. I could name the whole line-up, but you should just look at the following picture yourself.

See you at Coachella (the select few of you that managed to get tickets)!

Coachella is coming up in Palm Springs April 16, 17 and 18, and the lineup is going to be amazing!

But there’s no need to wait – come to Palm Springs for Spring break this year!

One tank of gas, a bathing suit, short and tank top is all you need in the sunny paradise close to home. No passport required!

Palm Springs has a great little downtown, where you can have drinks and dinner alfresco, party and then walk back to your hotel – next morning, just lay in the sun by the pool.

It’s a great pace to rest and relax by day, do a little hiking through the beautiful palm canyons, take a ride to the top of the mountain on the Aerial tramway, or splash away at Knott’s Soak City with your friends.

Best of all – 2 nights start at $99.00!! Go to palmspringsbreak.com for all the details.

Palm Springs  will be on campus for your chance to win a free Palm Springs vacation!

Check out the schedule each day at Facebook.com/VisitPalmSprings for the California and Arizona campus visits!

You read it right; no single day tickets for Coachella this year. The good news is you’ll get to see all the bands. The bad news is you’ll be out $269. I like the idea, as everything will be less crowded, and one will feel the proper festival experience. See you in the desert!