Coachella lineup & livestream

Coachella’s first weekend starts Friday, April 10, and this year the easiest way to follow it may be from a couch instead of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The festival’s official stream is running all seven stages live on YouTube across April 10-12 and April 17-19. (coachella.com) That changes the usual Coachella math. Instead of one camera feed picking winners for you, viewers can jump between seven stage streams and build their own schedule around clashes, late arrivals, and surprise guests. (coachella.com) Three of those feeds are getting the deluxe treatment. Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, and Sahara will stream in 4K, while Quasar will also be offered in both horizontal and vertical formats. (consequence.net) YouTube is also adding a multi-view option that lets people watch up to four performances at once in a grid. That turns the festival into something closer to sports Sunday, where you can keep one headliner on the big screen and still monitor another tent for a guest appearance. (consequence.net) The in-person festival is still the same two-weekend desert event Coachella has used for years. Weekend 1 runs April 10-12, Weekend 2 runs April 17-19, and both happen at the same Indio grounds east of Los Angeles. (coachella.com) This year’s top line is unusually pop-heavy even by Coachella standards. Sabrina Carpenter is billed for Friday, Justin Bieber for Saturday, and Karol G for Sunday, with Anyma also listed among the festival’s headliners in coverage of the stream rollout. (iheart.com) (consequence.net) The wrinkle that made set-time watchers refresh their phones this week was Jack White. He was added as a surprise act on Wednesday, April 8, and slotted into the Mojave Tent at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday of Weekend 1 for a 45-minute set. (webn.iheart.com) That afternoon Mojave slot has become one of Coachella’s favorite places to hide a curveball. A short set in a mid-size tent can create the kind of line, rumor, and guest speculation that keeps the whole festival feeling unfinished until gates open. (webn.iheart.com) The stream is also being packaged like a full-time channel, not just a stack of concert feeds. Between live sets, Coachella TV will run archival moments from past festivals, so the dead space between acts gets filled with old performances instead of a holding screen. (consequence.net) So the real story in the set-time drop is not just who plays when. It is that Coachella has turned schedule conflicts into a remote-control problem, with seven live feeds, three 4K stages, and a four-box viewer that lets fans chase the festival’s biggest moments without being anywhere near Indio. (coachella.com) (consequence.net)