Coachella: Performance times announced

April 8, 2015 9:59 AM PT

So many performances, so little time. Or is it the other way around?

That depends on how many acts you want to try and catch at the 2015 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio this weekend, whether you’re attending in person, watching a live stream on YouTube or listenign on Sirius XM Radio.

It also depends, for example, if your preference for Friday night is to see and hear Alabama Shakes, Interpol, Lykke Li, Pete Tong or R3hab, all of whose sets overlap, or dash from one to another. Ditto Saturday, when Jack White, FKA Twigs and Tyler the Creator perform almost concurrent sets, preceded by overlapping sets by Father John Misty, Kasabian, Duke Dumont, DJ Harvey and, well, you get the idea.

COMPLETE COVERAGE: 2015 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL

So many options are part of the fun at Coachella, and part of the challenge. Making your choices will be easier, though, now that the daily performance schedule has been released for this weekend. (The schedule for the second Coachella weekend, also sold out, will likely be similar, but not identical, judging by past years.)

So, start planning now. Or, if you’re a seasoned or aspirational slacker, don’t.

Source: DiscoverSD

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”