Who’s streaming Coachella live

Coachella’s biggest weekend-one sets are not locked behind the desert gates this year, because the festival’s official YouTube stream is carrying performances across seven stages from April 10 to April 12, with weekend two returning April 17 to April 19. (youtube.com) The stream starts each day on the official Coachella YouTube channel, and YouTube says the 2026 broadcast includes stage feeds in 4K plus multiview, which lets viewers watch several stages at once on supported devices. (youtube.com)(blog.google) That turns Coachella into two events at the same time: one in Indio, California, and one on phones and televisions everywhere else. The festival’s own livestream page says all seven stages are live, so the online version is not just a highlights reel cut down to a few headliners. (blog.google) The names pulling the most attention on Saturday, April 11, are Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G, who are listed by Glamour as headline-level draws for this year’s festival coverage. USA Today says Bieber’s Saturday set time is 11:25 p.m. Pacific Time on the main stage, which is the late-night slot that usually anchors the day. (glamour.com)(ftw.usatoday.com) The livestream list is wider than the pop names that dominate social media clips. Pitchfork’s schedule rundown says viewers can also catch the Strokes, the xx, Jack White, and Young Thug, which gives the stream a mix of reunion appeal, rock history, and rap star power instead of one narrow lane. (pitchfork.com) Coachella has been using YouTube for years, and Teen Vogue notes that the partnership dates back to 2011. What changed over time is scale: the 2026 setup is built like a full broadcast grid, with separate stage channels instead of one camera following only the biggest act. (teenvogue.com)That matters on a festival weekend where clashes are the whole problem. Variety’s streaming guide describes a “Couch-ella” setup with direct links to different channel feeds, which means a fan can jump from a main-stage pop set to a smaller-stage indie set the way people on the grounds run between tents. (variety.com) The online audience is also getting the part of Coachella that travels fastest after dark: the outfits, surprise guests, and crowd shots that usually flood feeds before the weekend is over. The Desert Sun’s live coverage is already tracking traffic, pop-ups, celebrity sightings, and surprise guests around weekend one, and the YouTube cameras turn a lot of that into something everyone can see in real time. (desertsun.com)So the practical answer is simple: if an artist is on one of Coachella’s seven streamed stages, the official YouTube channel is the place to check first, and if you miss weekend one, the same festival runs again on April 17 to April 19. For 2026, the livestream is not the side door to Coachella; it is one of the main entrances. (youtube.com)