Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator and Doja Cat have been announced as headliners for the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
The 23rd edition of the Goldenvoice-produced festival, scheduled for April 12-14 and 19-21, will draw 125,000 fans a day to the Empire Polo Club in Indio. This year is arguably the most Los Angeles-centric headline lineup to date, with two artists (Tyler and Doja Cat) who grew up here, and a third, Del Rey, who lives here and is deeply immersed in the aesthetic of the city.
Orange County's No Doubt will meet as part of the bill. The last concert that the pop-ska group led by Gwen Stefani performed was in 2015.
Del Rey, the seductive singer-songwriter who last performed at Coachella in 2014, will headline Friday. He initially booked a main support slot in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced Goldenvoice to cancel the festival. Since then, he has released several albums, including “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” “Blue Banisters” and the acclaimed “Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” which is nominated for five Grammy Awards this year, including album and song. of the year.
Saturday's headliner, Tyler, the Creator, has been a fixture at Coachella and the Goldenvoice festival circuit his entire career. He performed at the festival in 2015 and 2018, and has curated and performed at his own annual Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles since 2012. His last studio album was 2021's “Call Me If You Get Lost,” which debuted on the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Singer and rapper Doja Cat, who will headline Sunday, performed at Coachella in 2019 and again in 2022 behind her Grammy-nominated album “Planet Her,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Her most recent album, “ Scarlet, “was a bolder turn from her recent sleek pop, with stinging singles like “Paint the Town Red,” “Attention” and “Agora Hills.”
Other notable acts on the bill include Mexican singer Peso Pluma, who enjoyed a breakout year with his single “Ella Baila Sola” featuring Eslabón Armado and his album “Génesis,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200; Lil Uzi Vert Strange; Deftones; Justice; Blur; Best New Artist Grammy nominee Ice Spice; Sublime; and J Balvin.
Rockers Rage Against the Machine were scheduled to headline Coachella with a reunion concert in 2020, and their fans were hoping for a return this year. But drummer Brad Wilk recently said the band would not return to the stage.
Last year's event, featuring headliners Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean, showed a new openness to global pop at the top of the bill and seemed like a return to normality after a period of plans thwarted by the pandemic and changes of last minute programming. But Goldenvoice once again had to struggle after Ocean, who was originally booked for 2020, pulled out of the second weekend after a divisive performance and injury. He was replaced by a reunited Blink-182.
This time, Coachella returns after a boom year in the live entertainment industry, when big names like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Morgan Wallen sold out stadiums and dominated pop culture. (Wallen will headline Coachella's country music cousin, Stagecoach, at the same venue April 26-28 with Eric Church and Miranda Lambert.) Live venues, from clubs to stadiums, showed double-digit growth from 2022.
While some festivals faced challenges after the pandemic, others like Camp Flog Gnaw sold out last year and Goldenvoice premiered Power Trip, a hard rock version of their hit 2016 festival Desert Trip. Coachella remains the most popular music festival. profitable in the country.
This year's lineup announcement came noticeably later than last year's, which came on January 10.
Pre-sale passes for both Coachella weekends, which start at $499, sold out in June.
