All day Monday the drumbeat grew louder and louder on the Coachella-themed social media sites: Where, oh where, are the set times? fans demanded. And then just after 8 p.m., like a mirage in the desert, there they were.
The headliners for the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival landed right about where you’d expect to find them.
Sabrina Carpenter fills that slot on on Friday, April 10 on the main stage from 9:05-10:35 p.m., making her return to the Empire Polo Club after performing on the same stage though earlier in the day in 2024. Though Sabrina’s the headliner, she’ll be followed by the world premiere of techno artist Anyma’s immersive production titled “ÆDEN” at midnight.
On Saturday, April 11 Justin Bieber tops the bill with his late-night set starting at 11:25 p.m. We close out Weekend 1 on Sunday, April 12, with headliner Karol G whose set begins at 9:55 p.m.
This year’s set times also reveal several that some artists performance days have been switched from the original announcement. DJ Solomun announced recently that he had dropped off the bill for health reasons. And Foster the People was originally slated for Friday, April 10 but will now be performing on Sunday, April 12 at the Outdoor Theatre from 6:45-7:40 p.m.
And Jack White showed up as a surprise act for weekend one, too. It’s been a theme in years past that with the set times being released, new artists are added to the line up. Last year, Weezer and Ed Sheeran were both added to the Mojave tent on Saturday, at 3 p.m.
This year, White has been added for that same time frame from 3-3:45 p.m. in the Mojave tent for weekend one. It will be the fifth time White has played Coachella including appearances by his bands the White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather, and a solo headlining performance in 2015, his last time playing the desert fest.
Another standout on the set list is less about the artists added and more about what’s missing. Long-time festivalgoers noticed a gap on Friday, April 10 in the Mojave tent from 9-10:30 p.m., around the same time headline Sabrina Carpenter takes the Coachella stage.
Electronic artist Moby, the only act playing this 25th Coachella who was also in the lineup for the first one in 1999, finishes his set in the Mojave tent at 9 p.m. on Friday. The tent is dark until 10:35 p.m. when singer-songwriter Ethel Cain takes the stage.
Could there be a surprise guest yet to be announced in that empty spot? Or could it involve a change to the Mojave stage to account for the announcement Blood Orange, who plays after Cain at 11:55 p.m. Friday, that he’d be performing in the round at Coachella? Time will tell.
Coachella’s second weekend runs at the Empire Polo Club April 17-19. For the full lineup, now with set times, go to Coachella.com/schedule.
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