Thousands of festivalgoers will descend on the Empire Polo Club in Indio Friday for the start of the two-weekend Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, featuring a wide range of artists across different genres.
The festival will be held from Friday to Sunday this weekend and next at the club at 81-800 51st Ave. Gates will open at 1 p.m.
Sabrina Carpenter will headline the first day of the event Friday. Other artists set to perform across the eight stages will include The xx, Disclosure, Lykke Li, Joyce Manor, Moby, Swae Lee, Sexyy Red and Katseye.
Saturday’s lineup will feature headliner Justin Bieber, along with The Strokes, Giveon, Addison Rae, Morat, Pink Pantheress and Jack White.
The final day of weekend one will feature Karol G headlining, and other acts such as Young Thug, Wet Leg, Laufey, Roz, Foster The People, Iggy Pop and Fatboy Slim.
A new addition to this year’s festival is “The Bunker Debut of Radiohead Motion Picture House Kid A Mnesia,” an installation that features a 75-minute large format film made of thousands of fragments created by Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke and English artist Stanley Donwood during the recordings of albums “Kid A” and “Amnesiac.” Sketches, paintings, collages, audio recordings and handwritten notes will also be available. Radiohead is not scheduled to perform at this year’s festival.
The Indio Police Department on Thursday urged attendees and nearby residents call the department’s non-emergency line for concert-related concerns such as loud music or excessive noise, parking or traffic issues and loitering. The non-emergency line is at 760-391-4051.
Festival information can be found at coachella.com.