Hip-hop and electronic music will collide Sunday at the Empire Polo Fields for the final day of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival\u0027s\r\nfirst weekend.
Hip-hop and electronic music will collide Sunday at the Empire Polo Fields for the final day of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival'sDance music trio Swedish House Mafia will be one half of Sunday's headlining slot days after releasing their 17-track debut studio album"Paradise Again."
When the substitution was announced on Instagram, the festival captioned the post with"the party and the after party," hinting at the format of the shared set while referencing one of The Weeknd's songs. Saturday night also saw L.A.'s Billie Eilish return to the polo grounds to make history as the youngest performer to headline the event three years after making her debut appearance at the festival, Fresh off an Oscar win for best original song, the 20-year-old Eilish packed her set with crowd-pleasing stunts and collaborations with singer-songwriter Khalid, Blur frontman Damon Albarn and her brother, Finneas, who will make his own solo appearance on Sunday.
Isaiah Rashad opened his set with a pre-recorded clip stitching together various media footage reacting to a leaked sex tape that appeared to out the 30-year-old rapper. Near the end of his set, Rashad addressed the tape for the first time since the video leaked in February. The festival, which will feature the same lineup next weekend, opened Friday at the Empire Polo Club following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a shirtless Justin Bieber and a Harry Styles-Shania Twain duet among the first-day highlights.