Swedish Home Mafia and The Weeknd will group as much as substitute Ye (previously often called Kanye West) because the Sunday headliner on the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition, the competition introduced by way of social media Wednesday, April 6.
The information comes two days after Ye pulled out of the competition’s Sunday night time spot.
The Weeknd and Swedish Home Mafia will be a part of Harry Kinds and Billie Eilish atop Coachella’s return to the Empire Polo Membership in Indio April 15-17 and April 22-24. Swedish Home Mafia had been beforehand listed on the lineup poster in huge, daring font, however on the backside of the picture, not assigned to a day. The Weeknd was not beforehand booked for this yr’s occasion.
Swedish Home Mafia, the EDM supergroup of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso, introduced their reunion in 2021 with new music. Amongst that new music is a collaboration with The Weeknd, “Moth to a Flame.”
Swedish Home Mafia has by no means headlined, however the trio did shut out the primary stage again in 2012 after the Black Keys’ opening night time set. And the person members have performed Coachella in different years.
The Weeknd made his Coachella debut in 2012 earlier than closing out the primary stage after headliner Jack White in 2015. He lastly turned a headliner in his personal proper in 2018, however within the time since has develop into a family title, along with his track “Blinding Lights” being just about in every single place, together with final yr’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present. He additionally has two reveals booked for SoFi Stadium in September as a part of his tour supporting his 2020 breakout “After Hours” and this yr’s “Daybreak FM.”
The competition is offered out and every weekend is predicted to attract round 125,000 individuals to the venue to see artists similar to Danny Elfman, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion and greater than 100 others.
West dropped off the competition on Monday, April 4. He was anticipated to return to Coachella as a headliner for the primary time since 2011, though he had introduced his Sunday Service worship program to the competition in 2019.
Nonetheless, after he was introduced as headliner, West ended up within the information for erratic habits, which included a social media spat with Eilish over her perceived slight of Travis Scott and a feud with Trevor Noah of “The Day by day Present” after the host known as out the rapper’s harassment of ex-wife Kim Kardashian. And the rapper’s music video for “Eazy” depicted kidnapping and burying Pete Davidson, Kardashian’s boyfriend.
Almost 50,000 individuals signed a web-based petition calling for the rapper to be faraway from the Coachella lineup on Change.org.