Tame Impala to headline Coachella alongside Dua Lipa, SZA and Madonna
Tame Impala star alongside a huge group of Australian artists who will play at the music festival next year.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of the planet's biggest music events, has unveiled its 2027 line-up, with headline performances from SZA, Dua Lipa and Tame Impala across two weekends in April.
It will be the fifth time Tame Impala's Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker has taken his psychedelia-driven work to the coveted Indio Valley festival in California.
This also marks his second headlining slot after his mind-bending 2019 performance.
In what could possibly be a first in Coachella history, Parker has previously collaborated with the festival's other headliners.
He produced tracks on Dua Lipa's 2024 album Radical Optimism, and recently joined SZA on the Justice-produced track Flower In A Hurricane for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI video game soundtrack.
Could there possibly be some special appearances across the headline sets at Coachella in 2027?
Parker is not alone in representing Australia on the massive Coachella stages, with debuts and returnees joining him from our side of the globe.
Electronic producer Dom Dolla and sampling kings The Avalanches are set to return to the festival, and indie-electro favourites Empire of the Sun will take their shimmering show to the desert for the first time in a decade.
Meanwhile, Sydney's Gang of Youths, ARIA Award-winning Ghanaian Australian rapper Genesis Owusu, Brisbane DJ Odd Mob and Byron Bay-via-Berlin's Dream Boat will make their first big entrances on Coachella stages.
They join an impressive slate of acts for the festival's two weekends, including a performance from Madonna in the dance tent, a special Coachella moment not witnessed since 2006.
Otherworldly Quebec duo Angine de Poitrine, UK dancefloor masters Underworld, American rock icons Weezer, New York rap rock king Mike D and Daptone prodigies The Womack Sisters are also on the bill, with plenty more to explore.
The festival, which sold out in its advance sale earlier this year, is live-streamed on YouTube, giving artists an enormous potential audience that extends well beyond those on the ground.
Coachella Music and Arts Festival kicks off in Indio, California, on Friday, April 9, and runs over two weekends, finishing on Sunday, April 18.
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