The Coachella 2022 Lineup Is Here, And It’s Not So Great
The Coachella 2022 lineup has been revealed and I find it quite boring. The return of America’s biggest festival has been anticipated for a long time: the Indio festival didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021 and was rescheduled about a million times, but I will need more than Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and Ye/Kanye to be excited. I understand that they are the most famous pop stars of the moment, but doesn’t Billie Eilish headline every single festival right now? Glastonbury, the Governors Ball, and Coachella: how original! As for Kanye, I didn’t even go to his little party with Drake at the Coliseum, a few miles from my house, so I cannot imagine driving to Indio to see him.
The rest of the lineup falls into three categories: acts I have never heard about – and the list is longer every year, I know, I am old – acts I don’t care about, and finally a few acts that interest me. But I probably could see them out of the festival. Since I hate EDM and DJs and I am not really into modern hip hop, there’s already a lot of stuff to eliminate right away on this bill. I just know that Belgium rapper Stromae is a big deal in France.
Some noticeable acts include Megan Thee Stallion, Phoebe Bridgers (how the hell did she manage to rank so high on the flyer? Higher than Caroline Polachek?) Run the Jewels, Lil Baby, 21 Savage, Danny Elfman, Doja Cat, Jamie xx, Carly Rae Jepsen, Vince Staples, Japanese Breakfast, Baby Keem, Caribou, City Girls, Denzel Curry, 100 gecs, Turnstile, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, the Avalanches, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Orville Peck, Disclosure, Brockhampton, Spiritualized, Slowthai, Fatboy Slim, IDLES, BadBadNotGood, Amyl and the Sniffers to list familiar names. Some of them may be worth the trip and the price of the ticket but we are far from the original April 2020 lineup which was supposed to include Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine before the Covid-19 pandemic forced organizers to reschedule to October 2020, then to April 2021, then to October 2021 before bumping again to April 2022. Travis Scott has been out of the picture since the Astroworld horror story but what happened to Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine? Coachella 2020 was also supposed to have Thom Yorke, Lana Del Rey, FKA twigs, Lil Nas X, Lil Uzi Vert, Charli XCX, Weyes Blood, and they all have disappeared in the new lineup. It sounded like a much more original and eclectic festival.
Coachella is scheduled to take place on the weekends of 15-17 April and 22-24 April at the Empire Polo Ground in Indio, California. Did you notice that Ye is playing on Easter Sunday?
Here is the complete Coachella lineup in alphabetic order:
100 gecs
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
