After taking a necessary two-year pandemic pause, Coachella is back for the second year in a row — and we've created a complete guide on how to live stream Coachella 2023 if you couldn't make out to the desert this year. This year's festival lineup and schedule is one of the most highly-anticipated in years (dare we say since Beychella?) with some of the biggest acts in music taking the main stage. During Weekend 1, Frank Ocean performed live for the first time since 2017. (The singer-songwriter has pulled out of Weekend 2 due to a leg injury, and will be replaced by electronic music artists Skrillex, Fred Again, and Four Tet.)
As always, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Over 150 artists are set to perform across the festival's six stages during two consecutive weekends, April 14-16 and April 21-23. The two other headliners for this year's festival are global superstars Bad Bunny and BLACKPINK.
With Weekend 1 in the rearview and Weekend 2 officially kicking off in just a few hours, keep reading to learn everything you need to know about how to live stream Coachella 2023. Don't miss any of these once-in-a-lifetime sets!
Related: Coachella 2023 Live News & Updates
Who is performing at Coachella 2023?
Coachella's two Friday dates will be headlined by Puerto Rican icon Bad Bunny, while BLACKPINK will be all up in the Indio area on the festival's Saturday dates. Frank Ocean headlined the festival's first weekend, but Skrillex, Fred Again, and Four Tet will replace him as headliner to close the festival on Sunday, April 23.
167 artists in total will be performing at Coachella this year, with around 50 artists taking the festival's six stages each day. Coachella 2023 welcomes both breakout artists and legendary acts like Björk, Doechii, Rosalía, Burna Boy, Uncle Waffles, Kaytranada, Boygenius, The Kid LAROI, Charli XCX, GloRilla, Latto, Jackson Wang, and many, many more.
(See our full guide to Coachella 2023's lineup and schedule here.)
How can I watch Coachella 2023?
2023 will be the eleventh year that YouTube has served as the exclusive global live streaming partner of Coachella. However, Coachella announced ahead of this year's festival that 2023 will be the first year they stream live from all six stages across both weekends. (In the past, they've only streamed three stages.) “All stages. All weekend,” the YouTube team wrote in their announcement. All six feeds can be accessed exclusively on Coachella's official YouTube channel.
Stage feeds aren't the only live stream programming YouTube and Coachella are offering this year — per Variety, at-home audiences will also be able to watch and engage with “behind-the-scenes content on YouTube Shorts… playlist integrations within YouTube and YouTube Music; YouTube Shopping exclusive merchandise drops; exclusive content for YouTube Premium subscribers; [and a] Live Chat.” (Exclusive BLACKPINK Coachella merch, anyone!?)
YouTube's goal is to “capture the complete Coachella experience for the audience at home,” and we're into it. Through YouTube Shorts, fans will be able to “help build the set lists” for Calvin Harris, Becky G, and Burna Boy and take an inside look at how BLACKPINK will prepare for their first Coachella headlining performance.
The Weekend 1 live stream went without hosts this year, but was sponsored by Fast X, Verizon, and NYX Professional Makeup in the U.S. and Levi Strauss and Co in Europe. The U.S. sponsors for the Weekend 2 live stream are Tic Tac and Dove Shower Collection.
Kicking off at 4 p.m PT / 7 p.m. ET on Friday, April 21, Coachella 2023's Weekend 2 live stream programming will run all the way through Sunday night, April 23.
Accessing the 6 streaming feeds is simple: tune in to Coachella's YouTube channel, pick one of the six stages, and take in all the performances live. If you're unable to tune in live during the festival, YouTube will replay the festival sets “on repeat after the night's final performance” until the festival's live streaming programming starts again at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET the next day. Performance highlights will be "made available on demand,” so periodically check back at Coachella's YT channel to watch playback of your favorite sets. There are already tons of highlights available from Weekend 1, including this one below from Flo Milli's set:
Just like Weekend 1, immersive features like Shorts content and the Live Chat will be made available to fans, as well as the nightly replay. Who else is hype? Set your reminder for the live stream feeds for Weekend 2 of Coachella 2023 here so you don't miss a thing.
