Hot Since 82 – Punk Goes Prenatt

Coachella’s getting a touch of pop-punk.

The California based festival announced Thursday morning that the legendary pop-punk trio would be performing this year. News broke out when Coachella posted the set times for weekend one, starting April 14. Blink-182 will be playing Friday, April 14, at 6:45 PM PST on the Sahara Stage alongside Metro Boomin, Two Friends, and Vintage Culture. No word yet if Blink-182 are attending weekend two. Other acts performing weekend one include YUNGBLUD, Snail Mail, boygenius, Knocked Loose, The Chemical Brothers, and many more.

Coachella 2023 was announced back in early January, with Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK, and Frank Ocean headlining with Gorillaz, TV Girl, Soul Glo, The Comet Is Coming, $uicideboy$, Yung Lean, The Linda Lindas, Hot Since 82, Björk, GloRilla, Latto, Rae Sremmurd, and many more attending.

Tickets for weekend one are sold out, but a waitlist for it is available.

Blink-182 reunited with Tom DeLonge last October — who quit the band back in 2015 and was replaced by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba — and announced a new album coming later this year, as well as a massive world tour lasting until 2024. Rise Against, Turnstile, The Story So Far, and Wallows will be appearing on selected dates of the tour. The tour will also take them to When We Were Young in Las Vegas this October with Green Day, 5 Seconds Of Summer, All Time Low, Tigers Jaw, and EKKSTACY.

Today the 20th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival announced this year’s lineup, packed with artists and musicians of multiple genres. Genres like Latin (Bad Bunny, Mon Laferte, Rosalía), alternative (The 1975, CHVRCHES, Weezer), rap (Playboi Carti, Jaden Smith, YG), EDM (Aphex Twin, Diplo, Ross From Friends), pop (BLACKPINK, Billie EIlish, Jain), R&B (Khalid Ella Mai, Solange), and others, will appear at the two weekend festival.

Headlining this year’s festival are rapper Childish Gambino, Australian psychedelic rock group Tame Impala, and pop star Ariana Grande. Gambino will headline Friday, April 12 and 19, TI will headline Saturday, April 13 and 20, and Grande will headline Sunday, April 14 and 21. Other bands that will appear during the weekends are Turnstile, King Princess, JPEGMAFIA, The Frights, Kero Kero Bonito, Mac DeMarco, Sabrina Claudio, Turnover, CHON, Superorganism, Kaytranada, boy pablo, Soccer Mommy, Alice Merton, and 070 Shake.

Kanye West was apparently supposed to headline one of the days, but pulled out at the last minute. The 40×60 stages were apparently “artistically limiting,” a source told TMZ. “These 40×60 stages are so archaic. It’s the same type of stage on which Shakespeare’s works were performed hundreds of years ago.”

Another interesting fact about today is the mysterious group Gucci Gang. Named after the song by rapper Lil Pump, no one has heard about the group until today. When Coachella’s website showed a picture of Gucci Gang, the image was of Atlanta based rapper Gucci Mane. Some thought it was a typo, but it wasn’t. Turns out it’s a supergroup made up of Mane, Pump, and Chicago rapper Smokepurpp.

Presale tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. Festival passes can be purchased right here.