Planning to stream Coachella this weekend? There's now an app for that.
If you missed out on purchasing a wristband for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, crowds aren't your thing or you just don't feel like braving the heat, don't stress. You can enjoy the festival from the comforts of home or through your phone.
Coachella organizers announced Thursday, April 10 that they've partnered with YouTube to create a new Coachella Livestream app that will include performances from the Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Sahara tent, Mojave tent, Gobi tent and Quasar stage. Performances at the Sonora tent will be featured during Weekend 1 and at the Yuma tent during Weekend 2.
Streaming for all stages for Weekend 1 will begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 11 and run through Sunday, April 13. A schedule for Weekend 2 will be announced next week.
Viewers can also create their own schedules by selecting individual performances to their profile.
The Coachella Livestream app is available for free in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.
Coachella livestream schedule 2025: Streaming will still be available on YouTube
For those who don't want to download the app, you can still stream the festival on YouTube.com/@coachella starting at 4 p.m. Pacific each day of Weekend 1. The same stages in the app listed for Weekend 1 will be available on the site.
Join a livestream watch party on Saturday at Center Stage in Indio
On Saturday, Center Stage in Downtown Indio will host Echo Lounge, an all-day health and wellness festival, which will include a Coachella livestream watch party.
The event will also feature:
- A live DJ set
- Yoga sessions
- Immersive sound baths
- Several local and regional vendors including:
- Everbloom (Indio-based coffee and tea vendor)
- Deaux (Redlands-based doughnut vendor)
- True Awakening Studio (Indio-based reiki therapist)
- Secret Poke (Coachella Valley-based traveling poke stand)
- That's the Spirit (Palm Springs-based mocktail vendor)
Coachella is raising the bar on livestreaming production
Coachella is raising the bar on production to enhance the presentation of the festival to elevate its brand and build a community for fans to interact with each other from home.
Springboard Productions President Hank Neuberger — the executive producer of the festival's livestream content since 2007 — told The Desert Sun in 2024 that Goldenvoice CEO Paul Tollett wanted the broadcast to feel like a festival experience of moving from stage to stage. He's seen the livestream hop across different platforms, go from one channel to three and now to six. During Stagecoach, the focus is on three stages.
"(Festival owners) understood early on that these broadcasts help them grow their brand, and that's still the case. Coachella has invested more in the highest quality content of any festival in the world. It shows up on the screen and the fans online rave about the quality, variety and the look in a way that is very gratifying," Neuberger said.
In 2024, the festival rolled out a new multi-view feature, allowing viewers to watch up to four live performances at the same time, and each stage (except Do Lab, Sonora and Quasar) also had its own livestream. Since the festival returned in 2022, there has been added content profiling artists and bonus material.
Even though there's extensive planning, all of the directors at the stages work without rehearsals and work to tell the story of what's happening onstage in front of them. Occasional breakdowns are inevitable, but the crew is able to work around any mishaps.
"A camera could go down, a microphone could not be plugged in properly, but we've been very fortunate. Even though it's a live line and the artist has a problem, that's something I can't control, but our technical infrastructure has been very robust and we have a lot of redundancy built in," Neuberger said in 2024.
(This story was updated to swap out a photo.)
Brian Blueskye covers arts and entertainment for the Desert Sun. He can be reached at brian.blueskye@desertsun.com.