After a year where the Eras Tour dominated both the live music scene and pop culture at large, how do you go about programming a headline-grabbing festival lineup. Specifically, if you’re Coachella, do you return to big-name reunions and living legends? Or double down on pop music? This year, it’s a little bit of both.
No Doubt, Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator will headline this year’s festival. Coachella will once again stage two weekends of nearly identical lineups in Indio from April 12 to 14 and April 19 to 21, 2024.
As is the case just about every year, a meaningful portion of the tickets up for grabs were claimed during last summer’s presale. Additional passes will go on sale Friday, January 19 at 11am. Including fees, general admission costs between $599 and $649, depending on which tier of tickets you can claim. It’s worth noting that day parking is now only available to people who carpool, so unless you can gather three other friends, you’ll need to pay $719 to $769 for a pass with shuttle access. VIP costs $1,399.
Back to the lineup, the smaller-sized names at Coachella are always just as interesting as—if not more so than—the headliners. This year’s edition includes the likes of J Balvin, Peso Pluma, Ice Spice, Jhené Aiko, Lil Uzi Vert, Justice, Gesaffelstein, Khruangbin, Sabrina Carpenter, Bleachers, Grimes, Jon Batiste and Reneé Rapp. And No Doubt—who haven’t been touring since 2015—aren’t the only ’90s/aughts rock acts on the bill, with sets from Blur, Deftones, Sublime (now with the late Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob as the singer) and Taking Back Sunday.
If you’re trying your hand at tickets, it’s worth pointing out that passes were still available last year just days before the fest—the first time since 2010 that the fest didn’t sell out in advance. (Of course there’s no guarantee that’ll be the case again this year.) But speaking of no sure things, let’s not forget that Frank Ocean only played the first weekend of last year’s fest, with Blink-182 and Four Tet, Fred Again and Skrillex brought in as last-minute replacements for the second weekend—in other words, everything is always subject to change.
So who’s headlining Coachella 2024?
No Doubt, Lana Del Rey, Tyler the Creator, Doja Cat will headline this year’s festival, with additional sets from J Balvin, Peso Pluma, Blur, Ice Spice, Jhené Aiko, Lil Uzi Vert, Justice, Bleachers and more.
And as a reminder, who headlined last year’s festival?
Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean initially topped the 2023 lineup, though Blink-182 and Four Tet, Fred Again and Skrillex replaced Ocean during the second weekend. Calvin Harris was also billed with a special “returning to the desert” credit.