Welcome to reside protection of Day 1 of the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition.
Friday’s headliner is the Puerto Rican celebrity Unhealthy Bunny, the primary Spanish-language artist to high the pageant’s invoice, and, in one other first, one in all three nonwhite headliners this 12 months: Okay-pop lady group Blackpink will take the primary stage on Saturday night time, and worldwide man of thriller Frank Ocean will shut out the pageant Sunday together with his first live performance since 2019, and his first space present since 2017.
The 2023 version of the wildly in style (and profitable) pageant follows a chaotic few years, for Coachella and extra broadly for reside music. In 2022, each Travis Scott and Kanye West pulled out of deliberate headline performances, whereas the 2020 and 2021 editions had been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday will function extremely anticipated units from Gorillaz, Metro Boomin, Burna Boy, the Chemical Brothers, a reunited Blink-182, Moist Leg, Becky G, Yves Tumor, Kaytranada, Blondie, Doechii and lots of extra, plus the same old parade of shock visitor stars (who will get custody of the Weeknd?), and The Instances’ Mikael Wooden, August Brown, Suzy Exposito and Kenan Draughorne shall be roaming the grounds of Indio’s Empire Polo Membership, reporting on all of the motion because it occurs.
