Coachella weekend one perks

Coachella’s first weekend starts Friday, April 10, but one of the biggest late additions landed only after set times dropped: Jack White is now booked for a 45-minute Saturday set in the Mojave Tent at 3:00 p.m. That Mojave slot has turned into Coachella’s version of a secret side door, where recent surprise sets have come from acts like Weezer, blink-182, and Arcade Fire instead of the names printed on the first poster. The festival itself runs across two three-day weekends, April 10-12 and April 17-19, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, so Weekend 1 usually doubles as the test run for what the rest of the world will talk about for the next week. This year, the at-home version is unusually close to being there in person because Coachella says all seven stages will stream live on YouTube across both weekends. Three of those feeds get the premium treatment: the Main Stage, the Outdoor Theatre, and Sahara will stream in 4K, which is the sharpest video option Coachella has offered for those stages this year. YouTube is also bringing back multiview on television, which lets viewers watch up to four stage feeds at once instead of choosing one set and missing three others. There is a second screen built into the plan too: Coachella says “Watch With” returns in 2026, so creators can run live commentary and reactions alongside the festival feed on their own channels. For anyone trying to time the weekend around the biggest names, the official Coachella site lists Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G at the top of the 2026 bill, while the YouTube livestream is scheduled to begin Friday at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. So the perk this year is not one extra artist or one cleaner stream by itself; it is that Coachella added a last-minute Jack White set and built a seven-stage live broadcast around it, which means the weekend’s best surprise can travel as fast as the headliners do.