The 2013 Coachella music festival kicks off on Friday, April 12, in its usual site of Indio, California. From the April 12 through the 14, some of the most anticipated performances from the festival will be live streamed on Coachella's YouTube page, for the third year in a row. Click here to see the action, which begins on Friday at 3:30 p.m., PT, (or 6:30 p.m., EDT). The live stream will feature over 60 artists' performances on five Coachella stages, broadcast on three different feeds. Set times of artists who will be seen on the live stream are available near the bottom of the YouTube page.
More than 190 performers will be featured across six stages from Friday through Sunday, with about 100,000 fans in attendance. Then, from April 19 through 21, they'll do it all over again, with a different 100,000 fans. If you were lucky enough to snag tickets, set times for the whole host of acts are available here.
Among some of the most anticipated acts are: the Postal Service, which will play its reunion set Saturday at 8:50 p.m. on the Coachella stage; Earl Sweatshirt, at the Gobi tent on Friday just after midnight; the Wu Tang Clan, at the Outdoor Theatre at 9:15 p.m. Sunday; and Dead Can Dance, which will close the first weekend of the festival at 11 p.m. on Sunday on the Mojave Stage. Other anxiously awaited groups are the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Sunday, 10:15 p.m., Coachella Stage) and the experimental pop-dance-rock duo Sparks (Friday, 7:35 p.m., Mojave Stage).
One of the highlights from 2012's Coachella festival came in a projection of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, who appeared to rise from beneath the stage during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's set to perform his hits "Hail Mary" and "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted." The orchestration was essentially a high-tech version of an old theatre trick known as "Pepper's Ghost." In the latter, an actor faces a mirror, hidden in a recessed area below the stage. The actor's image is reflected in a sheet of glass suspended above the stage, and when lights shining on it are turned on or off, the image appears or disappears.
Unfortunately, not all the performances will be streamed live. Access to performances by the Stone Roses, Blur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Earl Sweatshirt, Grizzly Bear, Sigur Rós, Wu-Tang Clan, Grimes, and Kurt Vile, among others, will be restricted to those who brave the Coachella Valley heat and sun.
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