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Coachella, Bonnaroo and Boston Calling, three of the country’s biggest music festivals, announced their lineups for the coming year on Tuesday.
Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will headline Coachella this April. Kendrick Lamar, Odesza, Zeds Dead, Liquid Stranger and Foo Fighters will top Bonnaroo’s list in June. The Foo Fighters will perform at the Boston Calling on Memorial Day Weekend along with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Lumineers, Alanis Morissette, Paramore and Queens of the Stone Age.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the largest of the three, features exclusively non-white headliners for the first time since it began in 1999.
This festival takes place over the weekends of April 14-16 and April 21-23 in Indio, California. Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2022, performs on both Fridays with all-female K-pop group Blackpink on Saturdays and R&B star Frank Ocean on Sundays.
Blackpink debuted on the Coachella stage in 2019 and was 2022’s Time Entertainer of the Year. The group now has 83.8 million subscribers on YouTube.
Other notable Coachella artists include Gorillaz, Burna Boy, The Chemical Brothers, Becky G and Pusha T on Friday; Rosalía, Eric Prydz, Suicideboys, Labrinth and Underworld on Saturday; and Bjork, Kali Uchis, Porter Robinson, Fisher and Jai Paul on Sunday.
Last year’s Coachella was the first since the festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic. The 2022 version starred Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Swedish House Mafia and The Weekend.
The cheapest tickets – starting at $499 plus a $50 fee – for the first weekend of this year’s festival are already sold out.
“For your best chance of getting passes, watch Weekend 2,” Coachella wrote on Twitter.
Bonnaroo, playing June 15-18 in Manchester, Tennessee, has already sold out its cheapest four-day $279 tickets. Single day passes start at $175.
Boston Calling presale begins Thursday at 10 a.m. Eastern time.