Rage Against The Machine confirmed as Coachella headliners

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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They reformed towards the end of 2019 - now Rage Against The Machine will headline this year’s Coachella

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Rage Against The Machine (Image credit: Christie Goodwin/Redferns - Getty)

Rage Against The Machine have been confirmed as one of this year’s headliners at Coachella.

The music and arts festival will take place over two weekends: April 10-12 and April 17-19 at Indio’s Empire Polo Club in California.

The news comes after Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford revealed they were dissolving Prophets Of Rage in November last year and hooking up once again with Zack de la Rocha (opens in new tab) for five shows – two of which were rumoured to be Coachella appearances.

The other two Coachella headers are Travis Scott and Frank Ocean.

Other artists of note playing both weekends include Thom Yorke (opens in new tab), Idles (opens in new tab), The Hu (opens in new tab), Code Orange (opens in new tab), Fontaines DC, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard (opens in new tab) and Anna Calvi.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.