Coachella 2026: 4 differences between Weekend 1 and 2

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s encore play kicks disconnected astatine the Empire Polo Club successful Indio connected Friday with immoderate notable differences from Weekend 1 — beyond the information that Weekend 2 gets little writer connected the fields.

Anyma’s satellite premiere is backmost connected track

Italian EDM prima Anyma was expected to debut his “Æden” accumulation past Friday. Heading to Indio, aggregate billboards lining the 10 Freeway advertised the set, which was to commencement connected the main signifier astir midnight. Mother Nature had different plans. Gnarly winds forced the Weekend 1 acceptable to beryllium canceled entirely.

“Due to beardown upwind conditions affecting Anyma’s signifier build, helium is incapable to perform. Coachella & Anyma person made this determination unneurotic with your information arsenic the priority,” the fest wrote successful a connection connected its app conscionable aft midnight Saturday morning.

Anyma volition effort again Friday nighttime this week and, arsenic of Thursday, there’s not a upwind advisory successful sight.

A antithetic astonishment set

When acceptable times were announced for Weekend 1, it was revealed that erstwhile headliner Jack White would beryllium playing successful the Mojave Tent connected Saturday afternoon. When the acceptable times dropped this week, crossover state prima Kacey Musgraves was listed arsenic the Mojave Tent astonishment playing from 3-3:50 p.m. Saturday. Musgraves played Coachella for the archetypal clip successful 2019. She has besides performed astatine Coachella’s sister state festival, Stagecoach.

More lineup tweaks

Musgraves isn’t the lone lineup alteration for the weekend. Quasar has a wholly antithetic lineup for Weekend 2, with Darco, Franky Rizardo and Armin van Buuren x Adam Beyer connected Friday; Devault, Madeon, DJ Snake x RL Grime x Flosstradamus and DJ Snake x Knock2 connected Saturday; and Linska, LP Giobbi and Sara Landry’s Blood Oath connected Sunday. Those sets tin beryllium seen connected the YouTube livestream.

As per usual, the Do Lab lineup is antithetic each weekend, but those performances are not streamed.

One of the different notable changes is that Rezz dropped disconnected from her Saturday nighttime Sahara Tent set. The DJ pulled retired of Coachella earlier this week, citing her health. There isn’t a replacement for her, conscionable an accommodation of acceptable times.

This weekend’s docket besides has immoderate caller names opening the stages, which isn’t unusual. One of the caller performers is Palm Springs-based DJ Bad Gal Gali, who volition unfastened the Sahara Tent Friday astatine 2:30 p.m.

There are besides immoderate insignificant tweaks to acceptable times, but the astir notable is that Friday nighttime headliner Sabrina Carpenter is getting an other 10 minutes this week, opening a model for a alteration successful the acceptable database oregon a peculiar guest.

Changes to the livestream

Even if you’re not connected the crushed astatine the festival, there’s a large alteration for those celebrating Couch-ella astatine home. YouTube’s livestream for Weekend 2 volition see the Yuma Tent, a haven for location and techno. It subs successful for the much rock-leaning Sonora Tent that was broadcast connected the Weekend 1 stream.