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NEW YORK (Billboard) — The Cure will headline the second night of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival May 2 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., according to a post on the group’s official website (www.thecure.com).

Event organizers confirmed the report to Billboard.com.

The site also reports the addition of the Flaming Lips to the event lineup, which will also feature Radiohead, Kraftwerk and the reunion of the Pixies, as well as Air, Prefuse 73, the Thrills, Electric Six and LCD Soundsystem, among many others yet to be confirmed.

Coachella tickets will cost $75 for one day and $140 for both days. The Cure’s appearance follows a rapturously received set at last September’s Inland Invasion concert outside of Los Angeles. The group will be the subject of Join the Dots, a four-CD boxed set due out Jan. 27 from Fiction/Elektra/Rhino.

The only other show on the group’s itinerary is a previously announced March 5 gig at London’s Barfly, as part of the Passport: Back to the Bars charity series. Proceeds will benefit the children’s charities Shelter and War Child; Travis, Starsailor, David Gray and Badly Drawn Boy are among the other acts that will participate.

The Cure fulfilled its contract with Fiction/Elektra last year and signed to producer Ross Robinson’s I Am imprint, although it is unknown what, if any, progress has been made on a new studio album.