How Day 2 read as ‘Bieberchella’
Local recap coverage labeled Saturday April 11 'Bieberchella', noting the day mixed blockbuster sets with art programming — including the 'Radiohead Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia' screening inside the Bunker — and listed Los Hermanos Flores among performers. (pressenterprise.com) (pressenterprise.com)
Saturday at Coachella turned into “Bieberchella” as Justin Bieber closed Day 2, capping a lineup that also sent fans into an underground Radiohead film installation. (dailynews.com) Bieber headlined the first weekend’s Saturday bill on April 11 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, and Coachella’s 2026 lineup had already positioned him as one of the festival’s top-billed acts alongside Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, Anyma, the xx and the Strokes. (coachellavalley.com) Local recap coverage grouped Bieber with the Strokes, Sombr and Nine Inch Noize as the day’s main musical draws, while separate Orange County Register coverage said Bieber’s comeback performance pulled enough fan attention to give the day its nickname. (dailynews.com) (ocregister.com) The day also showed how Coachella now sells more than stage-hopping. USA Today reported that 2026 added a new bunker structure for “Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia,” a 75-minute large-format Radiohead film and installation under the festival grounds. (usatoday.com) Consequence reported that the bunker spans 17,000 square feet with 38-foot ceilings and gives all Coachella ticketholders access to galleries and a surround-sound film built from Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood’s Kid A and Amnesiac-era artwork. (consequence.net) That mix of blockbuster pop and side-quest programming ran through the schedule itself. Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre stream listed Los Hermanos Flores at 4:00 p.m., Sombr at 7:05 p.m., Labrinth at 8:30 p.m. and David Byrne at 10:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 11. (youtube.com) Los Hermanos Flores’ slot carried its own weight beyond the set time. Salvadoran outlets and Infobae identified the group as a first for El Salvador at Coachella, with the orchestra bringing more than six decades of cumbia history onto the festival’s second-largest stage. (elsalvador.com) (infobae.com) Coachella’s first weekend runs April 10 to April 12, with a second weekend set for April 17 to April 19, and the official festival livestream is carrying seven stages on YouTube. Saturday’s label stuck because the biggest crowd-pull belonged to Bieber, but the day read more like Coachella’s current formula: one headliner, several genre lanes and at least one reason to disappear into the bunker before midnight. (coachellavalley.com) (coachella.com)
