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Shut Out of Coachella? Watch it Live Online

Whether you missed out on tickets to Coachella this year, prefer kickin' it by the pool, or just dislike crowds (but love music), you'll be enlightened to know that the festival is comin' atcha live. On three channels, starting now.
Barring any technical difficulties, the Coachella livestream will bring about 60 live performances to your computer or mobile device tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. This promises to be the best Coachella livestream experience to date, with sponsor 5Gum opting for delivery via YouTube's trusty interface after last year keeping the webcast within the walls of its Facebook page. In prior years, AT&T's Blue Room presented passable livestreams from Coachella but never on simultaneously live channels. 5gum, a Wrigley's product, also created a special site this year with tools that allow users to tweak and enhance the experience.
The program schedule is below. Visit youtube.com/coachella to livestream.
Friday April 15th
Channel 1
4:10PM • The Drums
4:55PM • Cee Lo Green
5:45PM • Moving Units
6:30PM • Ozomatli
7:25PM • Interpol
8:35PM • Ms. Lauryn Hill
9:55PM • Kings of Leon
11:15PM • The Black Keys
12:05AM • Gayngs
Channel 2
4:00PM • !!!
4:50PM • Warpaint
5:35PM • Cold Cave
6:25PM • YACHT
7:10PM • Cold War Kids
8:00PM • Titus Andronicus
9:00PM • The Pains Of Being Pure ...
10:00PM • Tame Impala
10:55PM • Monarchy
12:00AM • Flogging Molly
Channel 3
4:30PM • The Morning Benders
5:45PM • Ariel Pink's Haunted Gra...
7:25PM • Interpol - surveillance
8:20PM • Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Saturday April 16th
Channel 1
4:00PM • Freelance Whales
4:50PM • Erykah Badu
6:05PM • Broken Social Scene
6:55PM • Here We Go Magic
7:40PM • Gogol Bordello
8:30PM • Mumford & Sons
9:25PM • The Swell Season
10:20PM • Bright Eyes
Channel 2
4:30PM • Two Door Cinema Club
5:20PM • Cage The Elephant
7:00PM • The New Pornographers
7:55PM • The Kills
9:05PM • Big Audio Dynamite
10:05PM • Elbow
11:00PM • Raphael Saadiq
11:55PM • Scissor Sisters
Channel 3
4:00PM • Black Joe Lewis & the Ho...
5:45PM • Jenny and Johnny
6:35PM • Yelle
8:00PM • Brandt Brauer Frick
10:25PM • Empire Of The Sun
Sunday April 18th
Channel 1
4:00PM • Wiz Khalifa
5:00PM • Nas & Damian Marley
6:10PM • Death from Above 1979
7:25PM • The National
8:30PM • Ratatat
8:55PM • The Strokes
Channel 2
4:00PM • Fun.
5:55PM • Fistful of Mercy
7:25PM • Duran Duran
8:35PM • Chromeo
9:45PM • PJ Harvey
11:10PM • She Wants Revenge
Channel 3
2:20PM • MEN
3:50PM • Angus & Julia Stone
4:45PM • HEALTH
6:05PM • Best Coast
6:55PM • Foster the People
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