Skrillex, Fred Again and Four Tet to Close Out Coachella
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music Editor The electronic-music dream team of Skrillex, Fred Again and Four Tet — which recently played a rapturously received five-hour set at Madison Square Garden — will close out the Coachella festival this weekend, sources tell Variety.
The trio will follow Blink-182, who Variety revealed will fill the slot vacated when Frank Ocean announced he will not play the second weekend, on the main stage Sunday night, in the slot marked “TBD” on the schedule the festival shared on social media earlier on Thursday.
Ocean’s set, his first in six years, was marred by controversy when a huge planned production involving an ice-skating rink was called off at the last minute, leaving the singer to play an at-times musically solid but uneven and low-energy set.
Last year, Coachella also doubled down when scheduled headliner Kanye West pulled out shortly before the festival’s opening day: Swedish House Mafia, who were already on the bill in a headlining but unlisted time slot, played a tag-team set with the Weeknd in his place.
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