The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival posted its acceptable times for some of its weekends, with a caller smattering of Millennial guitar stone added.
With Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott inactive locked arsenic headliners, the festival added a archetypal play (April 11-13) acceptable from Weezer successful the Mojave Tent astatine 3:10 p.m. that Saturday. The set has been connected the roadworthy playing its beloved self-titled (“Blue”) debut LP successful full; the prolific rockers haven’t released an LP since 2021’s “Van Weezer” and 2022’s postulation of “SZNZ” EPs, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium a daze to perceive them road-testing caller material.
The fest’s 2nd play (April 18-20) volition diagnostic a agleam and aboriginal acceptable from folk-pop superstar Ed Sheeran astatine 3 p.m connected that Saturday successful the Mojave. Sheeran conscionable released “Azizam,” a azygous disconnected his forthcoming eighth album, “Play.” Even though he’s got to beryllium the astir mainstream singer-songwriter feline to grace a Coachella signifier since Jack Johnson, he’s a stadium-caliber enactment successful 1 of Coachella’s much humble venues — astir apt the smallest SoCal acceptable he’s played since his caller casino gig.
The fest had a spot of scheduling country to play with, arsenic FKA Twigs precocious announced that her North American shows successful April were canceled owed to visa troubles.
These additions proceed a caller streak of first- and second-line acts playing last-minute, ultra aboriginal sets. Other caller Coachellas person seen daytime slots from Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and a two-thirds-reunited Fugees during YG Marley’s show.