Thousands of festival goers will descend on the Empire Polo Club in Indio Sunday for the last day of Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, featuring a wide range of artists across different genres.
Gates will open at 1 p.m.
Sunday’s lineup will have Karol G headlining at 9:55 p.m. on the Coachella Stage. Other performing artists will include Young Thug, Wet Leg, Laufey, Roz, Foster The People, Iggy Pop and Fatboy Slim.
After the day’s final performance, a special screening of the season three premiere of “Euphoria” will be presented at about 11:59 p.m. at the campgrounds. The event will mark the festival’s first television show screening. The Season 3 debut of the HBO original drama will be available for festival goers on a first-come, first served basis.
The series follows a group of high school students navigating relationships, addiction and identity in a visually stylized drama.
On Saturday, with Justin Bieber headlining, Coachella was dubbed “Bieberchella” with some festivalgoers jokingly complaining about being stuck in long lines of traffic awash in “Belieber” pilgrims, as the singer’s fans are known.
But some complained that his set was “lazy” and relied too heavily on YouTube for what some likened to “YouTube karaoke.”
Just hours before Bieber took the stage, rising New York indie band Geese performed a cover of his hit “Baby” — drawing fans to what music critics say could be “the next big rock band, the act that [c]ould shake the dust off of a stale and fractured genre.”
A collaboration between the veteran industrial-alt band Nine Inch Nails and German Iraqi electronic producer Alex Ridha, who records under the name Boys Noize, became the well-received Day 2 performance by “Nine Inch Noize.”
Other highlights included Pink Pantheress, the Strokes, Giveon, Addison Rae, Morat, and singer-songwriter Sombr, who was joined by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan on the group’s hit “1979.”
Critics also praised old schooler David Byrne and veteran rocker Jack White — who was only added to the Day 2 lineup on Tuesday — for showing the Gen Zers how it’s done.
Sabrina Carpenter headlined Friday and unveiled “Sabrina’s Pit Stop,” a pop-up experience created in partnership with Airbnb. The installation, located at 82338 CA-111 and open through Sunday, features photo-themed vignettes, custom slushie stations and merchandise for sale.
“This is a full circle moment for me. I wouldn’t be here without my fans, so I wanted to created something special just for them. It’s not your typical pit stop — I wanted it to feel like a surrealist fantasy land of mine,” Carpenter said.
Among the other artists performing across eight stages Friday were The xx, Disclosure, Lykke Li, Joyce Manor, Moby, Swae Lee, Sexyy Red and Katseye.
Friday’s festivities were marred a bit by strong winds that sent a heavy light fixture falling onto the crowd during DJ John Summit’s set on the Do LaB Stage, striking one fan in the head and drawing blood, according to multiple social media reports.
The winds also caused the Italian-American DJ Anyma, along with Coachella officials, to cancel his performance due to gusts affecting the stage build.
“Coachella and Anyma have made this decision together with your safety as a priority,” according to a message projected on the stage screen. Anyma was scheduled to close the main stage Friday. No additional performances were canceled due to the winds, but the gusts destroyed many campers’ tents, leaving some people to chase after their canopies and belongings.
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 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.
Weekend 2 is scheduled for April 17-19 at 81-800 51st Ave. Additional festival information can be found at coachella.com.