Coachella Week 2 Has Anyma, The Strokes, and Young Thug Back on Stage

## Anyma Got Cancelled by Weather in Week 1. Friday Night Is the Makeup Set. Anyma's AEDEN show was scheduled as a world premiere during Coachella Weekend 1 and got cancelled due to weather conditions. Weekend 2 on Friday, April 17 is the makeup performance, which means the entire Coachella main stage Friday night audience will be witnessing what was supposed to be the exclusive debut. The show is an audiovisual experience built around Anyma's album AEDEN, which uses generative visuals synced to music in real time. Weather permitting, this will be the most technically ambitious production in Coachella history. The cancellation created its own narrative: the show everyone wanted to see became the show everyone was told they could not see, which makes the Weekend 2 version the most anticipated set on any stage. ## Saturday Belongs to The Strokes, Jack White, and David Byrne. That Is Three Generations of New York Rock. Justin Bieber headlines Saturday. But the undercard is the story. The Strokes return to Coachella twenty three years after "Is This It" defined a generation of indie rock. Jack White brings the garage rock energy he has refined through the White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather projects. David Byrne, the Talking Heads architect, represents the art rock lineage that precedes both. Three New York rock acts on one day at a California festival is either brilliant curation or coincidence. Given Coachella's programming team, it is not coincidence. ## Young Thug Plays Sunday. His First Major Festival Since Release. Young Thug appears on the Sunday lineup. His legal situation kept him off festival stages for two years. A Coachella set is the highest profile return possible. The crowd reaction will be the story regardless of what he performs. When an artist of Thug's caliber returns to a stage this size, the music is almost secondary to the moment. Every phone in the field will record the first 30 seconds, and those clips will generate more social media impressions than the headliner's entire set. ## Sabrina Carpenter Opens Weekend on Friday. She Sold Out Her Tour in 14 Minutes. Carpenter headlines Friday, April 17 on the Coachella stage. Her "Short n' Sweet" tour sold out in 14 minutes across all North American dates. At Coachella, she plays for an audience that includes fans and skeptics in equal measure. Festival headlining is different from arena headlining: the audience did not buy tickets specifically for you, so every song needs to earn the crowd rather than play to the converted. Carpenter's vocal range and choreography have been strong in arena settings. The festival test is whether that translates to 60,000 people standing in a field at sunset. ## Karol G Closes Coachella Sunday Night. She Is the First Latin Female Solo Headliner. Karol G headlines Sunday. She is the first Latin female solo headliner in Coachella history. Her set will draw the largest Latin audience Coachella has ever programmed for, and the festival added Spanish language wayfinding and concessions branding for the first time this year. The market signal is clear: Latin music generates $4.8 billion in annual streaming revenue, and Coachella wants that audience to think of the festival as theirs. Karol G is the proof of concept. ## The Quasar Stage Added RL Grime, Knock 2, and Flosstradamus for Weekend 2. The Dance Card Got Deeper. Several artists were added to the Quasar stage specifically for Weekend 2, including RL Grime, Knock 2, LP Giobbi, Flosstradamus, Franky Rizardo, Linska, and Devault. The Yuma tent is included in the Weekend 2 livestream for the first time. These additions suggest that Goldenvoice evaluated the Weekend 1 dance programming and identified gaps. Adding RL Grime (festival trap legend) and Flosstradamus (who have not played together at Coachella since 2014) creates nostalgia programming for attendees who remember the 2013 to 2016 era of electronic music at the festival. That era defined Coachella's identity as a dance music destination, and Weekend 2 is explicitly referencing it.