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Musical reunions at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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Musicians reunited at Coachella In 2001, the festival organizers were having trouble attracting a major headlining band. Running out of time, they went to friend Perry Farrell, who reunited Jane's Addiction in order to headline that year's event. Since then, it has become somewhat of a Coachella tradition to reunite at least one band for each festival. Although the line between a hiatus and an actual breakup is somewhat blurry, a number of artists are considered to have been reunited at Coachella, or have played Coachella as one of their first major shows after a reunion. The following is a list of performers who reunited or made a big return at a Coachella festival. 2011 *Suede - First U.S. performance since 1997 *Big Audio Dynamite *Bright Eyes *Caifanes *Death from Above 1979 - First full performance since 2005 breakup 2010 *Pavement - First U.S. performance following reunion *Sly Stone - First full performance in over 30 years *Faith No More - First major U.S. performance *Public Image Ltd. - First U.S. performance following reunion *The Specials - First U.S. performance following reunion besides warm-up show and television appearances *Plastikman - First live performance in 6 years, only second live performance since 1995 2009 *Throbbing Gristle - Had not performed in U.S. since 1981; Coachella was the band's third tour stop. *The Murder City Devils 2008 *Portishead - First U.S. performance following 10-year hiatus *The Verve - First U.S. performance following reunion *Love and Rockets *Swervedriver 2007 *Rage Against the Machine *Crowded House - First U.S. performance following reunion *The Jesus and Mary Chain *Happy Mondays 2006 *Daft Punk - First U.S. performance since 1997 *Massive Attack - First major U.S. performance since 1998 *Tool - First major U.S. show since 2002. 2005 *Bauhaus *Gang of Four *Nine Inch Nails - first major US show since 2000 *Cocteau Twins - Cancelled a month prior to the show 2004 *Pixies - First major performance of their 2004 reunion tour *Kraftwerk - First U.S. show since 1998, marking their fourth California tour stop since 1975. 2003 *Iggy Pop & The Stooges 2002 *Siouxsie and the Banshees 2001 *Jane's Addiction 
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