Coachella’s indie heavy lineup
Radio X’s Weekend 2 rundown includes indie and alt headliners such as The xx, The Strokes, Interpol and Jack White on the bill. (radiox.co.uk) Press-Enterprise noted Sabrina Carpenter was scheduled for the Coachella Stage at 9 p.m. on Friday, April 17, alongside acts like Disclosure and Sexyy Red. (pressenterprise.com)
Coachella’s second weekend opened Friday, April 17, with a bill that put indie and alternative acts at the center of the festival’s biggest stages. (radiox.co.uk) Radio X’s Weekend 2 schedule showed The xx on the Coachella Stage at 7 p.m. Friday, ahead of Sabrina Carpenter’s 9 p.m. headlining slot and Anyma at midnight. Disclosure was booked for the Outdoor Theatre at 10:40 p.m., and Sexyy Red for the Sahara at 12:05 a.m. (radiox.co.uk) The official festival site lists The xx, The Strokes, Interpol, Jack White, Blood Orange, Devo, Moby, Joyce Manor and Holly Humberstone on the 2026 lineup. Coachella’s 2026 dates are April 10-12 and April 17-19 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. (coachella.com, coachella.com) Coachella said both weekends would carry the same lineup, art, food and activities, with set times subject to change. That format turns Weekend 2 into a repeat of Weekend 1 on paper, but it also lets late adds and revised schedules reshape what crowds actually see. (coachella.com) That happened this week with Jack White, whose addition was highlighted in multiple set-time rundowns after the original poster rollout. NME described White as a last-minute addition to the 2026 bill, and Radio X included him among the marquee names for Weekend 2. (nme.com, radiox.co.uk) The 2026 top line still belongs to pop stars. Coachella’s homepage bills Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G as the festival’s headliners, while the lineup underneath them stretches from indie rock and post-punk to electronic music, regional Mexican acts and legacy reunion draws. (coachella.com, coachella.com) For people not in Indio, Coachella is again streaming both weekends on YouTube, with seven stages carried live from April 17-19. The festival’s livestream page also says viewers can use multiview on television, creator “Watch With” commentary, and a dedicated vertical stream on YouTube Shorts. (coachella.com) Weekend 2 is running through Sunday, April 19, with gates opening at 1 p.m. each day. The shape of the weekend is already clear: a pop-headed festival with an unusually thick indie undercard playing prime-time slots. (radiox.co.uk, coachella.com)
