Coachella lineup & livestream
Coachella kicks off April 10 in Indio and the festival’s biggest headliners this weekend are Sabrina Carpenter (Friday), Justin Bieber (Saturday) and Karol G (Sunday), making it a must-watch pop moment. ( ) The festival is also livestreaming all seven stages simultaneously, and three stages — the Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre and Sahara — will be available in 4K, so you can catch high-res sets even if you’re not on-site. (consequence.net) And there was a late surprise: Jack White was added to the lineup as a surprise performer just before the weekend. (rock1053.iheart.com)
Coachella starts Friday, April 10, in Indio, California, but one of the biggest changes is happening far from the desert: the festival is putting all seven stages on YouTube at once instead of making online viewers bounce between a handful of feeds. (coachella.com, youtube.com) Three of those feeds — the Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, and Sahara — will stream in 4K, and the Quasar stage will have both horizontal and vertical viewing options for phones and televisions. (consequence.net, coachella.com) YouTube says the livestream begins at 4 p.m. Pacific Time on April 10, and it is also offering a multiview mode that lets people watch up to four performances at the same time in one grid. (youtube.com, consequence.net) That setup changes what Coachella has become over the last decade: not just a ticketed festival at the Empire Polo Club, but a weekend-long live television event with stage switching built into the product. (coachella.com, coachella.com) On the ground, the festival runs across two weekends — April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19 — at the same Indio site, which gives artists two chances to create moments and gives fans two rounds of set-time speculation. (coachella.com) The headliner schedule this weekend leans hard into global pop: Sabrina Carpenter is billed for Friday, Justin Bieber for Saturday, and Karol G for Sunday. That puts three of the most commercially visible names in English-language pop and Latin pop on the same opening weekend. (usatoday.com, jang.com.pk) Then Coachella added one more wrinkle on Tuesday, April 8, when set times revealed Jack White as a surprise addition for Weekend 1. He is scheduled for a 45-minute Saturday set at 3 p.m. Pacific Time in the Mojave Tent. (iheart.com, rollingstone.com) That is a strange slot for White because his last Coachella appearance 11 years ago came as a headliner, which makes this feel less like a standard booking and more like a pop-up cameo dropped into the middle of the day. (rollingstone.com, au.rollingstone.com) So the weekend now has two layers running at once: a top line built around Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G, and a second game of surprise hunting built around schedule drops, tent sets, and whatever catches fire on livestream clips. (usatoday.com, coachella.com) If you are watching from home, the practical detail is simple: the official streams run April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19 on YouTube, start at 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, and cover every stage instead of just the biggest one. (coachella.com, youtube.com)
