Sabrina Carpenter headlines Coachella

Sabrina Carpenter closed Friday night at Coachella’s second weekend with a headlining set on the festival’s Main Stage, and fans could watch it live on YouTube from home. (youtube.com) (timeout.com) Weekend 2 ran April 17 to April 19 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, with Carpenter on Friday, Justin Bieber on Saturday and Karol G on Sunday. Coachella’s official YouTube hub said the second-weekend streams began Friday, April 17. (usatoday.com) (youtube.com) Carpenter’s Friday set was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. to 10:40 p.m. Pacific on the Main Stage, which put the start at midnight Eastern on April 18 for viewers on the U.S. East Coast. Time Out’s weekend-two guide said she was again leading the Friday bill. (timeout.com) (capitalfm.com) The at-home piece is now part of Coachella itself, not a side feed. The festival’s YouTube page listed seven stage channels for Weekend 2 — Main Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, Yuma and Quasar — plus a Quasar Shorts stream and a livestream app that syncs schedules to each viewer’s time zone. (youtube.com) (variety.com) That setup turns one desert festival into several parallel broadcasts. Variety’s streaming guide and The FADER’s schedule both framed the streams as the way to follow overlapping sets without being on the grounds in Indio. (variety.com) (thefader.com) Weekend 2 was not a carbon copy of Weekend 1. USA Today and Mercury News both reported lineup tweaks, including a Kacey Musgraves set and new Quasar-stage acts, while Anyma was scheduled after a canceled set the previous weekend. (usatoday.com) (mercurynews.com) Coachella’s own channel also leaned into replay culture before the new weekend started, promoting Weekend 1 replays and then switching viewers into the April 17 live rollout. That gave Carpenter’s second-weekend headline slot a built-in online audience before she even took the stage. (youtube.com) By Saturday morning, the Friday headline set had already done what Coachella’s stream is built to do: make the biggest performance of the night available far beyond the polo fields. (youtube.com) (thefader.com)