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Would You Rather Attend Brochella or Fakechella?

Kanye West is so pumped to be playing Coachella 2011 -- no doubt itching to make up for the Bonnaroo debacle that led to one of his best rants ever (he called the fest's organizers "squidbrains") -- he is already all-caps tweeting potential set lists. "BLAMEGAME? SPACESHIPS? ALLFALLSDOWN? PARANOID? AMAZING? STREETLIGHTS? RUNTHISTOWN? HOMECOMING? DEVILINANEWDRESS? I'm just thinking out loud," he posted.

But what if you're the kind of guy (and yes, in this case, it's a guy) who'd rather get down to the sweet sounds of Nickelback as the sun slowly sets over the Indio desert? Or wave a lighter to Semisonic, or chug a beer to the Goo Goo Dolls? Then you'd be a prime candidate for Brochella a.k.a. one of the best fake Coachella posters we've seen this year. The lineup also includes dude acts like Dave Matthews Band, mook acts like Saliva, Rihanna (bros love Riri!), and a surefire hit in the comedy tent: Mr. Dane Cook.  

Perhaps you'd prefer to mosh to the classic '90s grunge of Citizen Dick and hoist a plastic cup while Everybody Gets Laid plays at what we're dubbing Fakechella, a fest filled with some of the best fictional bands we wrote about earlier this month: Zack Attack (from "Saved By the Bell" of course), Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and our personal favorite, "SNL" girl group Gemini's Twin -- and you know Gwyneth Paltrow would show up to perform a cameo with those ladies because she loves to sing.

[Photo: The Clearly Dope and Julia Segal

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