Coachella 2013: Watch Blur, Phoenix, more live from your couch

Spoiler alert: Those with tickets for next week’s edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival might want to avert their eyes. Embedded below are three YouTube videos that will allow the ticketless to experience many of the musical highlights of the Indio festival.

Set to broadcast on the official Coachella YouTube page are highly anticipated sets from the likes of reunited Brit-pop act Blur, Trent Reznor’s How to Destroy Angels, chic dance-pop group Phoenix and a fully assembled Wu-Tang Clan, among many others. This is good news for those of us who aren’t making the trek to the desert to bake among 90,000 music fans with disposable income for three days, but could kill some of the mystery for those attending the second Coachella, which launches April 19.

YouTube over the years has become more aggressive in live broadcasts of music festivals, including past editions of Coachella, Chicago’s Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn. This year’s Coachella offerings, however, are especially impressive, with about 25 sets offered each day. Nearly all of the name artists are represented. Tune in Saturday, for instance, for the minimal electro-soul of the xx or “Harlam Shake” DJ sensation Baauer, and end your Sunday with the acidic rock romanticism of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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Embedded below are the three channels and the remaining schedules as of Friday evening. Though featured on YouTube, the Coachella programming will be appointment viewing. Don’t blame us if you miss the set and all you’re able to find after the fact is some shaky cellphone footage.

Of course, not every performance is available to live stream. Those artists cursed with sets before 3:30 p.m. are apparently not-ready-for-YouTube-players, and fans of the reunited British act the Stone Roses, a group that helped define the mix of rock and dance culture that currently rules at Coachella, will have to settle for what are described as “highlights.” But what did you expect, you freeloader?

Channel 1

Friday

7:00 p.m. Local Natives
7:50 p.m. Of Monsters and Men
8:40 p.m. Beach House
9:30 p.m. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10:20 p.m. Blur
11:40 p.m. The Stone Roses (Highlights)
12:10 a.m. How To Destroy Angels

Saturday

3:35 p.m. Dropkick Murphys
4:25 p.m. Ben Howard
5:15 p.m. Café Tacvba
6:05 p.m. Puscifer
6:55 p.m. Portugal. The Man
7:45 p.m. Grizzly Bear
8:35 p.m. Hot Chip
9:30 p.m. The Postal Service
10:30 p.m. The xx
11:35 p.m. Phoenix

Sunday

3:30 p.m. The Gaslight Anthem
4:30 p.m. The Airborne Toxic Event
5:15 p.m. The Lumineers
6:05 p.m. Social Distortion
7:00 p.m. Tame Impala
8:00 p.m. Vampire Weekend
8:50 p.m. Pretty Lights (Highlights)
9:20 p.m. Wu-Tang Clan
10:20 p.m. Red Hot Chili Peppers

Channel 2

Friday

7:00 p.m. Japandroids
7:50 p.m. Sparks
9:00 p.m. Modest Mouse
10:10 p.m. Grinderman
11:15 p.m. Jurassic 5
12:10 a.m. Tegan and Sara

Saturday

3:30 p.m. MONA
4:15 p.m. Shouting Matches
5:10 p.m. Bat For Lashes
6:10 p.m. Allen Stone
7:00 p.m. Major Lazer
8:00 p.m. Yeasayer
9:00 p.m. Spiritualized
10:00 p.m. Descendents
10:55 p.m. Two Door Cinema Club
11:45 p.m. New Order

Sunday

3:30 p.m. Smith Westerns
4:30 p.m. Jessie Ware
5:30 p.m. Tanlines
6:10 p.m. James Blake
7:40 p.m. Father John Misty
8:30 p.m. Franz Ferdinand
9:20 p.m. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
10:10 p.m. Dinosaur Jr.
11:00 p.m. Dead Can Dance

Channel 3

Friday

7:25 p.m. Jello Biafra
8:30 p.m. Encore: Metric (Encore performance
9:45 p.m. Purity Ring
10:35 p.m. Infected Mushroom
11:25 p.m. Foals
12:15 a.m. Earl Sweatshirt

Saturday

3:30 p.m. Baauer
4:45 p.m. The Selecter
5:45 p.m. Biffy Clyro
6:35 p.m. Violent Femmes
7:45 p.m. Bassnectar (Highlights)
8:20 p.m. Benny Benassi
9:55 p.m. Moby
10:45 p.m. Janelle Monae
11:35 p.m. Knife Party

Sunday

3:30 p.m. DIIV
4:20 p.m. Cloud Nothings
6:20 p.m. Paul Oakenfold
7:40 p.m. Simian Mobile Disco
8:50 p.m. OMD
9:45 p.m. The Faint
10:40 p.m. Eric Prydz

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