Coachella: watch seven stages

Coachella’s second weekend is streaming across seven separate YouTube stage feeds, not one festival-wide broadcast, so viewers can follow smaller tents as they happen. (coachella.com) The official livestream for Weekend 2 began Friday, April 17, at 4 p.m. Pacific and runs through Sunday, April 19, on the Coachella YouTube channel and linked stage streams. (youtube.com) Coachella’s site says the livestream covers seven stages, and the YouTube channel lists them as Main Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, Yuma, and Quasar, plus a separate vertical Quasar feed on Shorts. (coachella.com) (youtube.com) The practical change for home viewers is choice: instead of waiting for a producer to cut from a headliner to a side stage, each feed stays with one stage, and the Coachella app lets people build a personalized watch schedule in their own time zone. (coachella.com) That matters on a weekend with overlapping sets and a few stream-only wrinkles. Variety reported that most performances are live, but some are delayed, including Kacey Musgraves’ 3 p.m. Saturday set, which does not appear on the stream until after the 4 p.m. Pacific start. (variety.com) Variety also reported that, after the live sets end each night, the seven channels roll into overnight replays that run into the morning, giving viewers another shot at missed performances without waiting for stand-alone uploads. (variety.com) Weekend 2 also arrives after a first weekend full of guest appearances and schedule chatter, which is why music outlets spent Friday publishing fresh stream guides keyed to the second weekend’s revised set times. Stereogum’s Friday guide said the webcast restarted at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific, with an updated Weekend 2 schedule. (stereogum.com) The biggest draws are still on the main stage schedule. Variety listed Sabrina Carpenter for Friday from 9:00 to 10:40 p.m. Pacific, Justin Bieber for Saturday from 11:25 p.m. to 12:55 a.m., and Karol G for Sunday starting at 10:10 p.m. Pacific. (variety.com) But the seven-feed setup is built for the rest of the bill too: Friday’s published stream schedule included artists spread across every channel, from Groove Armada in Yuma and BINI in Mojave to Turnstile at Outdoor Theatre and Anyma closing the main stage after midnight. (variety.com) For anyone watching from home on Saturday, April 18, the simplest move is to pick a stage, not just a headliner, and use the official schedule instead of the poster. The stream now works more like seven parallel shows than one edited highlight reel. (coachella.com) (variety.com)