Coachella 2026: festival dates and ticket sales announced

Coachella 2026 has been locked in – see the dates for next year’s festival and more information below.

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Hot off the heels of Coachella 2025’s conclusion, the iconic Californian music festival has revealed the dates for next year’s event. One again, Coachella will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.

Coachella has confirmed that next year’s run will take place between April 10 and 12, and again on April 17 to 19, 2026. At this time, no artists have been revealed for the line-up – Coachella’s line-up is typically revealed between October and December, a couple of months before the festival. Stay tuned for more updates.

As for when tickets to Coachella 2026 go on sale, it’s not a long wait. Advanced tickets will go live next Friday (May 2), at 11am Pacific or 6pm GMT – you’ll be able to get yours here.

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Coachella 2025 was headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone, with additional performances from the likes of Charli XCX, Travis Scott, Kneecap, Tyla, Megan Thee Stallion, Sam Fender, Ed Sheeran, Beth Gibbons, Misfits, Benson Boone, Japanese Breakfast, The Prodigy, solo performances from BLACKPINK‘s Jennie and Lisa and many more.

Among the headlines from Coachella 2025 were a mini-feud between fans of Charli XCX and Green Day. Tensions rose after Green Day closed out the main stage on day two of Coachella, with Charli performing right before them. At an afterparty, Charli XCX ruffled feathers by donning a “Miss Should Be Headliner” sash, which was interpreted as a dig towards Green Day.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong sported a ‘Brat’ cap during weekend two’s performance, while drummer Tré Cool wore an “Actual Headliner” sash, all in good jest. Charli has since said she’s “obsessed” with their responses, seemingly ending the “beef”. Charli XCX has also declared the end of ‘Brat Summer’, passing the torch to a number of other musicians.

Elsewhere, Kneecap have turned heads as well. During their week one performance, their livestream was cut out after they voiced their support for a free Palestine, and also led the crowd in a provocative anti-Margaret Thatcher chant. “Not only was that cut,” they later said, referring to the Thatcher refrain, “our messaging on the US-backed genocide in Gaza somehow never appeared on screens either.”

At the second weekend, the band provided their own livestream, with political commentator Hasan Piker broadcasting their set live on Twitch. Slogans including “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine”, “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people” and “It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes” were projected on the screen behind them as they played.

During their second set, Mo Chara delivered a brief speech, telling the crowd: “The Irish not so long ago were persecuted at the hands of the Brits, but we were never bombed from the fucking skies with nowhere to go. “The Palestinians have nowhere to go, it’s their fucking home and they’re bombing them from the skies,” he added. “If you’re not calling it a genocide what the fuck are you calling it?” The band then led a “Free, Free Palestine” chant.

For more headlines from Coachella 2025, visit this link for all of NME‘s Coachella coverage.

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