Bad Bunny performing in 2021, Photograph by Kevin9625Ja, CC BY-SA 4.0, through Wikimedia Commons
Coachella launched its 2023 line-up at this time, with Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean as headliners. Calvin Harris is on the backside of the line-up and is known as “Returning to the Desert,” implying that he has but to be assigned a particular efficiency date.
The pageant is happening over the weekends of April 14th-Sixteenth and April Twenty first-Twenty third, and would be the first Coachella to not land on Easter Sunday, which is on April ninth this yr.
Friday’s roster consists of some beloved acts comparable to Gorillaz, The Chemical Brothers and Blondie, in addition to Latin singer Becky G and Nigerian famous person Burna Boy. Rosalía, Charlie XCX, Labrinth, boygenius and Underworld are taking part in on Saturday, and Sunday will conclude with Björk, Kali Uchis, Porter Robinson, Dominic Fike and Jai Paul, amongst others. Metro Boomin, Pusha T, Rae Sremmurd and Yung Lean are a few of the rap artists that might be performing all through the weekend.
Frank Ocean remains to be on the invoice, which is outstanding contemplating that he was initially deliberate to carry out on the 2020 pageant, which was canceled because of the pandemic, and was then anticipated to look on the 2022 return, however was in the end ignored. Coachella made an uncharacteristic early announcement of his return for 2023. Frank Ocean has a historical past of canceling pageant appearances, together with the 2015 FYF Fest in Los Angeles, which was stuffed in by Kanye West. He returned for the 2017 FYF Fest and gave a show-stopping efficiency with the assistance of Brad Pitt.
The different headliners show the growing worldwide sound that Coachella is incorporating, with Latin famous person Bad Bunny main the way in which and BLACKPINK being the primary Okay-pop group to headline the pageant. BLACKPINK made their Coachella debut in 2019 as the primary all-female Okay-pop act, and their headline standing this yr is a testomony to the rising reputation of Okay-pop.
Click on here for the whole line-up for Coachella 2023.
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