Coachella’s weekend 2 highlights list
Pitchfork’s Weekend 2 livestream schedule highlights headliners Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G alongside sets from Kacey Musgraves, the xx, Turnstile, David Byrne, FKA twigs and Iggy Pop — a lineup that mixes pop, indie, metal and legacy acts. (Pitchfork) (pitchfork.com)
Coachella’s second weekend livestream starts Friday, April 17, with seven stages streaming on YouTube from 4 p.m. Pacific through Sunday, April 19. (coachella.com) The official stream is not a single feed. Coachella says Main Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, Yuma and Quasar will all run live, and a separate vertical Quasar feed on YouTube Shorts is scheduled for each day. (coachella.com) The festival’s 2026 lineup page and YouTube promotion put Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G at the top of the weekend’s marquee names, alongside artists including Kacey Musgraves, the xx, Turnstile, David Byrne, FKA twigs and Iggy Pop. (coachella.com) YouTube and Coachella are selling the stream as a product with more controls than a normal concert broadcast. The festival says viewers can build a personalized schedule in the Coachella app, watch up to four stages at once with multiview on television, and use creator “Watch With” commentary streams. (coachella.com) This year’s stream also adds 4K video on three of the biggest feeds. The Main Stage, Outdoor Theatre and Sahara streams are listed as available in 4K, subject to bandwidth and availability. (youtube.com) That matters because Coachella has turned the livestream into a parallel version of the festival, not just a bonus for fans who stayed home. The official site says both festival weekends — April 10-12 and April 17-19 — are built around the same YouTube setup, with replays and on-demand highlights extending the event beyond the desert. (coachella.com) The timing also shows how the second weekend now functions. Coachella’s YouTube channel was still pushing Weekend 1 replays this week while directing viewers into the live Weekend 2 schedule, letting breakout clips and guest appearances from the first weekend feed interest in the second. (youtube.com) For viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: the stream opens at 4 p.m. Pacific on Friday, April 17, and runs through Sunday night with stage-by-stage choices instead of one edited program. Coachella’s pitch is to “be there from anywhere,” even if the crowd is 100 miles east of Los Angeles and the audience is on a couch. (coachella.com)
