About
Coachella Lineup Poster Parodies are satirical photoshopped variations of the lineup promotional posters for the Coachella music festival held annually in Indio, California.
Origin
On May 2th, 2008, Coachella Forums[1] member Xenocide submitted a thread titled “Coachella ’09 Lineup Announced!”, which highlighted a photoshopped lineup poster with the disbanded groups Led Zepplelin and The Doors headlining (shown below).
Spread
On January 19th, 2011, writer Ned Hepburn posted a parody Coachella poster (shown below) on his Tumblr blog.[2]
On the following day, the Internet news blog Urlesque[4] published a compilation of notable fake Coachella posters, which included an Internet meme variation (shown below, left). On April 17th, 2012, Redditor mtthwhdl submitted a parody poster filled with deceased artists and disbanded groups (shown below) to the /r/Music[3] subreddit. Prior to being archived, the post gained over 2,800 up votes and 280 comments.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Coachella Forums – Cochella 09 Lineup!
[2]Tumblr – Theyre Being More Honest With Coachella This Year
[3]Reddit – Next year’s Coachella lineup
[4]Urlesque – Coachella Posters