It almost feels surreal but after two long years of interruptions, cancellations, and setbacks, Coachella is back on again for 2022. It looks like we’ve just had a peek at the headliners lighting up the desert this year, too.
Though the full lineup for the double weekend festival in April is yet to officially drop, it’s been reported that Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Ye (FKA Kanye West) and Swedish House Mafia are slated to take the biggest sets across the festival.
Per Billboard, an alleged leaked Coachella 2022 poster started doing the rounds online on Wednesday (a true classic of the lineup rumours genre) and they confirmed the headline acts with a source who knew the important deets. It’s all a bit “sources say” so please take it with a grain of salt if you desire.
If that’s true then hell, we might get better luck running the gauntlet to the US to see Harry Styles instead of whenever he’s planning to reschedule his 2020 Aussie tour.
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Both Billie Eilish and Ye performed at Coachella in 2019, with Billie pulling a frankly absurd crowd at her Saturday evening set, and Ye curating his first-ever public Sunday Service on the Easter Sunday that year.
In December it was reported that Travis Scott would no longer be headed to the dusty valley — after being pinned as a headliner for the canned 2020 festival. That decision came after petitions called for him to be removed from the lineup after the Astroworld tragedy in November last year.
Fellow 2020 headliners Rage Against The Machine have not yet been slated to play the festival, and Billboard reported back in August that Frank Ocean was set to headline Coachella in 2023 instead. Please for the love of God let this mean that he’s releasing a new album this year.
Despite the world falling apart at the seams, Coachella Festival is expected to return to the plains just outside of Palm Springs on April 15-17 and 22-24. Fingers crossed it doesn’t get pushed back for the umpteenth time, and we get the pleasure of watching the live stream in comfort from the couch again.
UPDATE: January 13, 4pm
Well, would you look at that? Like clockwork, the official Coachella lineup has dropped and the reports were bang on the money.
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Joining the headliners is an absolutely stacked lineup of artists, including a very healthy contingency from Australia. Artists and bands like Amyl And The Sniffers, Sampa The Great, Dom Dolla, Skegss, Flume and The Chats will be hitting the stages across the two massive weekends. You beauty we love to see that.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will also be making an appearance at Coachella 2022, and I truly hope the desert is ready for that mind-bending and time-turning experience. If they thought Tame Impala back in 2019 was a psychedelic trip, they ain’t seen nothing yet.
Without further ado and in alphabetical order, here is the entire Coachella 2022 lineup for your pleasure (and deep envy).
Full Coachella 2022 Lineup
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21 Savage
Adam Port
Alaina Castillo
Alec Benjamin
Ali Gatie
Altın Gün
Amber Mark
AMÉMÉ
Amyl and the Sniffers
Anitta
ANNA
Ari Lennox
Arlo Parks
Arooj Aftab
ARTBAT
Baby Keem
BADBADNOTGOOD
Banda MS
beabadoobee
Beach Bunny
Beach Goons
Bedouin
Belly
Big Sean
Billie Eilish
Bishop Briggs
Black Coffee
black midi
BROCKHAMPTON
Caribou
Cariño
Carly Rae Jepsen
Caroline Polachek
Channel Tres
Chelsea Cutler
Chicano Batman
Chris Liebing
City Girls
Code Orange
Cole Knight
Conan Gray
Cordae
Crumb
Cuco
Current Joys
Damian Lazarus
Daniel Caesar
Danny Elfman
Daphni
Dave
Dear Humans
Denzel Curry
Disclosure
Dixon
DJ Holographic
DJ Koze
DJ Lord
Doja Cat
Dom Dolla
Duck Sauce
Duke Dumont
Ed Maverick
Ela Minus
Emo Nite
Emotional Oranges
EPIK HIGH
EYEDRESS
Fatboy Slim
88rising’s HEAD IN THE CLOUDS FOREVER
FINNEAS
Floating Points
Flume
Fred again..
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
GG Magree
girl in red
Giselle Woo & The Night Owls
Giveon
Griselda
Grupo Firme
Harry Styles
Hayden James
Holly Humberstone
Hot Chip
IDLES
Inner Wave
Isaiah Rashad
J.I.D
Jamie xx
Japanese Breakfast
Jayda G
Jean Dawson
Jessie Reyez
John Summit
Joji
Karol G
Kim Petras
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Koffee
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
L’Impératrice
Lane 8
Lawrence
Layla Benitez
Lil Baby
Logic1000
Lost Kings
Louis The Child
Luttrell
Madeon
Maggie Rogers
Måneskin
Mannequin Pussy
Mariah the Scientist
Masego
Maxo Kream
Megan Thee Stallion
MEUTE
Miane
Michael Bibi
MIKA
Molchat Doma
Natanael Cano
Nathy Peluso
Nicki Nicole
NIKI
Nilüfer Yanya
Olivia O’Brien
Omar Apollo
Orville Peck
Pabllo Vittar
Paco Osuna
Peggy Gou
Phoebe Bridgers
Pink Sweat$
Princess Nokia
PUP
Purple Disco Machine
Raveena
Rich Brian
Richie Hawtin
Rina Sawayama
Role Model
Run The Jewels
Sama’ Abdulhadi
Sampa The Great
Satori
Skegss
SLANDER
slowthai
Snoh Aalegra
SOHMI
Solomun
Spiritualized
Steve Lacy
Still Woozy
Stromae
Surf Curse
Swedish House Mafia
Tchami
The Avalanches
The Blessed Madonna + Honey Dijon
The Chats
The Hu
The Marías
The Martinez Brothers
The Regrettes
TOKiMONSTA
Turnstile
Viagra Boys
Vince Staples
VNSSA
Wallows
Whipped Cream
Yard Act
Ye
Yola
