Coachella tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. — here’s how to get them
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For anyone worried that the 2020 pandemic had killed concerts forever, rest easy: Coachella is back… next year.
But you can get tickets now on Stubhub.
Public tickets officially go on sale Friday, June 4 at 10 a.m. PST for the next version of Coachella, but the festival won’t take place until 2022, from April 15-17 and April 22-24.
While sales go live on the Coachella website on Friday, you have to register for access and hope to get through the line before they sell out. Otherwise, you can get them on sites like Stubhub or Seatgeek without going through the rest of the rigamarole — but it’ll obviously cost you. As of Friday afternoon, general admission tickets were already over $600.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival traces its roots to a 1993 concert at the Empire Polo Club that Pearl Jam organized as part of a protest against the service charges levied by distribution company Ticketmaster. The organizer, a company called Goldenvoice, realized there was a market for a large scale festival. Since its official founding in 1999 (with headlining acts Rage Against the Machine, Beck and Tool), the event has been held at that same venue. The organizers describe the festival as the “anti-Woodstock” due to artist selection being dictated by quality rather than radio popularity.
No lineup has yet been announced, but Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, and Coachella veterans Rage Against the Machine were slated to headline the 2020 event, which was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The last time Coachella actually happened, 2019, the headlining acts were Childish Gambino, Tame Impala, and Ariana Grande.