Coachella 2016 Lineup Revealed: Guns N’ Roses, Calvin Harris, And LCD Soundsystem Headlining
From the archive: published Jan 5, 2016, 10 years ago. Details may have changed since.
The Coachella 2016 lineup has finally been revealed!
Headlining the Coachella Music and Arts Festival 2016 will be Guns N’ Roses, Calvin Harris, and LCD Soundsystem. Guns N’ Roses and LCD Soundsystem confirmed that they would be reuniting for the event last week. However, the third headliner, Calvin Harris, was just revealed last night. LCD Soundsystem will kick off the festival on Friday with other notable artists including Ellie Goulding, Sufjan Stevens, and Jack Ü. Guns N’ Roses, Ice Cube, and Disclosure will lead off on Saturday, while Calvin Harris, Sia, and Major Lazer will finish off the event on Sunday.
Check out the full Coachella 2016 lineup below:
Friday April 15 & 22
LCD Soundsystem Ellie Goulding Sufjan Stevens Jack Ü M83 Underworld The Kills Foals Of Monsters And Men G-Eazy Purity Ring Rae Sremmurd Volbeat 2manydjs Lord Huron St Germain Savages The Last Shadow Puppets Joey Bada$$ DJ Mustard BØRNS Christine And The Queens Snakehips Robert DeLong Bob Moses Ibeyi Marco Carola Parov Stelar Black Coffee Years & Years Nicole Moudaber & Skin Lido HEALTH Mavis Staples Sasha Goldroom Carla Morrison Nic Fanciulli The Front Bottoms Skepta Sam Feldt Lemaitre Louis The Child Frances George FitzGerald DJ EZ Gallant HÆLOS Låpsley Miami Horror SG Lewis Sheer MaG Mbongwana Star Nina Las Vegas Nora En Pure Masha
Passes go on sale Wednesday, January 6th at 11am PST. Go to https://t.co/x8PRTb12Eh to get started. pic.twitter.com/B8Ss98deKa
— Coachella (@coachella) January 5, 2016
Saturday April 16 & 23
Guns N’ Roses Ice Cube Disclosure Zedd A$AP Rocky CHVRCHES Halsey James Bay Grimes Courtney Barnett Run The Jewels The Arcs RL Grime Gary Clark Jr. Silversun Pickups Lush ZHU Deerhunter Unknown Mortal Orchestra Rhye Bat For Lashes The Damned Vince Staples Tchami Nina Kraviz Snails RÜFÜS DU SOL Lost Frequencies Chronixx Vanic Justin Martin AlunaGeorge Mano Le Tough Shamir DJ Koze BADBADNOTGOOD Moon Taxi SZA Ex Hex Mr. Carmack SOPHIE Protjoe Alvvays Zella Day Dubfire Matthew Dear DMA’s Matoma Algiers GoGo Penguin The Black Madonna Cloves Strangers You Know Amine Edge & DANCE Phases The Dead Ships
#Coachella ‘s 2016 lineup is here, featuring reunions from LCD Soundsystem and Guns N’ Roses: https://t.co/0CyoDwxeOJ pic.twitter.com/Nytqic0Yh9
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) January 5, 2016
Sunday April 17 & 24
Calvin Harris Sia Major Lazer Flume Beach House The 1975 Rancid Miike Snow Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros Matt And Kim Chris Stapleton Cold War Kids Death Grips The Chainsmokers Maceo Plex Baauer KSHMR Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Adam Beyer & Ida Engberg Wolf Alice Pete Yorn Hudson Mohawke Kamasi Washington Claptone TOKiMONSTA Melody’s Echo Chamber Autolux John Digweed Thomas Jack Anderson.Paak Nosaj Thing Deafheaven Epik High Tensnake Alessia Cara Crystal Fighters The Vandals Joywave PRAYERS Young Fathers The Heavy Tei Shi Meg Meyers Soul Clap Cassy De Lux Girlpool Fur Coat AC Slater
LCD Soundsystem last played together in 2011 during a farewell show, and Calvin Harris performed at Coachella 2014 in front of the second largest crowd ever to attend the festival. Last year’s headliners were AC/DC, Jack White, and Drake. More than 200,000 tickets were sold for Coachella 2015 with the event grossing a record of $84.3 million.
Passes for Coachella 2016 will go on sale on January 6, at 11:00 a.m. PST. The festival will take place over two weekends on April 17-19 and 24-27 in Indio, California. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival was founded by Paul Tollett in 1999 and is organized by Goldenvoice, which is a subsidiary of AEG Live.
Are you excited about the Coachella 2016 lineup? Will you be attending the event? Leave your comments below.