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Coachella-goers — and home streaming viewers — can start setting alarm times for the coming weekend on their watches now. Set times for the first weekend of performances this Friday through Sunday were finally posted late Monday night, allowing Southern California and the world to know exactly when headliner Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G will take the stage, on top of dozens of other artists.
The unveiling of the itinerary revealed one surprise in the lineup: an appearance by Jack White… not in a headliner slot, or anything even close to it, but rather a 45-minute Mojave Tent performance smack in the middle of Saturday afternoon, at the not-very-rock-god hour of 3 p.m.
Any mystery about when Anyma‘s late-night quasi-headliner would take place was finally solved. The electronic artist will play Friday at midnight on the main stage. That means Friday’s true headliner, Sabrina Carpenter, will go on earlier a bit earlier than the top-billed acts performing on subsequent nights. Carpenter is set to bring the musical espresso Friday from 9:05-10:35 p.m.
On Saturday night, bill-topper Justin Bieber will go on stage a full two and a half hours later than Carpenter will have the night before. He’s set to perform at 11:25 p.m. on the festival’s hump night. It’s expected that he will likely play the two “Swag” albums in their 25-song entirety, based on the warmup shows he has done at the Roxy and Troubadour.
On the closing night, things won’t run nearly so late. Sunday’s headliner, Karol G, will go on at 9:55 p.m. (All times are PT, of course.)
In White’s last appearance at Coachella, 11 years ago, he was a headliner. The rocker’s last-minute addition in a way-down-under undercard slot follows in what has become kind of a bizarre Coachella tradition over the past few years. In 2025, Ed Sheeran and Weezer were similarly announced as near-surprise afternoon performers. Based on past experience with these late adds, there’s no guarantee that White will return to take the same slot on weekend 2, the way that all of the festival’s regularly scheduled acts are expected to.
Prior to the schedule being unveiled, Coachella offered more information about a Radiohead activation that drew fans’ curiosity. An Instagram post from the festival explained that it is “the Bunker debut of Radiohead Motiion Picture House Kid A Mnesia.”
Says the IG post of the Radiohead attraction, “At its center is a 75-minute large-format film made from thousands of fragments created by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood during the recording of ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’: sketches, paintings, collages, audio recordings and handwritten notes. The event has a ticketed reservation system through AXS Mobile ID. To make your reservation, sign into your FanAccount. There are no costs associated with AXS Mobile ID reservations. They are purely to reserve your time slot.”
Meanwhile, the schedule also reveals the timing for the only set that matters: the Bob Baker Marionettes. The most wooden performance of the festival — arguably — will take place Friday at 2:55 p.m. Arrive late enough to miss this historic appearance and you might as well just turn around and go home.
Among some of the bigger or most anticipated artists’ times:
Friday: Slayyyter at 3; the band Wednesday at 3:40; Teddy Swims at 5:30; CMAT at 6:15; Dijon at 6:40; Devo at 6:45; the XX at 7; Katseye at 8; Turnstile at 8:05; Moby at 8:10; Sabrina Carpenter at 9:05; Disclosure and Ethel Cain both at 10:35; Swae Lee at 10:50; Blood Orange at 11:55; Anyma at midnight; and Sexyy Red at 12:05 a.m.
Saturday: Jack White at 3; Addison Rae at 5:30; Geese at 6:15; Giveon at 7; Sombr at 7:05; Nine Inch Noize (a collaboration between Trent Reznor and producer Boys Noize) at 8; Labrinth at 8:30; PinkPantheress at 8:55; the Strokes and David Guetta, both at 9; Interpol at 10:15; David Byrne at 10:20; and Bieber at 11:25.
Sunday: Gigi Perez at 4; Little Simz at 4:25; Wet Leg at 4:45; Clipse at 5:15; Major Lazer at 6:10; Foster the People at 6:45; Iggy Pop at 7:10; Young Thug at 7:50; Fatboy Slim at 8; Laufey at 8:40; FKA Twigs at 8:45; the Rapture at 9:05; Karol G at 9:55; and the last scheduled start time of the weekend with Kaskade going on at 10:45.
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Chris Willman
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