The Coachella 2020 festival lineup: The 5 biggest takeaways - Press-Enterprise

The lineup for the 2020 edition of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival landed Thursday evening and if you’d been paying attention the announcement of its three headliners — Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott, and Frank Ocean — wasn’t much of a surprise.

Rage Against The Machine, who closes Friday night, had been an open secret ever since the band announced in the fall that it was reuniting, and Travis Scott and Frank Ocean, who both were widely rumored and reported in recent weeks to be the likely candidates for the other two nights, headline Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

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But the rest of the lineup of the festival, which runs April 10-12 and April 17-19 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, contains familiar names, surprises, unknowns, and acts that have played Southern California in the past year or so. We turned on our patented InstantLineupAnalyzer and fed all the names into it and these are the five themes our trusty machine spit out.

Frank Ocean performs during FYF Fest at Exposition Park in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 22, 2017. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

1. Hip-hop is huge

Coachella has headed this way for a few years, but this time the lineup feels even more tilted toward the hip-hop side of the pop music spectrum. Scott and Ocean, though they’re different kinds of artists, both fit under the hip-hop umbrella, but the 2020 poster positively overflows with rap and hip-hop. Just looking at the top lines each day you see big names such as Run The Jewels, Brockhampton, 21 Savage and Lil Uzi Vert.

There’s no Drake but man, how awesome would it be if Frank Ocean brought him out on stage with him? Lots of smaller but strong hip-hop is scattered lower on the bill, too, from Princess Nokia and Denzel Curry to Freddie Gibbs & Madlib.

Southern California rock band Rage Against the Machine (pictured performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio in 2007) countered the 2000 Democratic National Convention at Staples Center in Los Angeles with a free outdoor show directly across the street which drew thousands of fans and global media attention. (File photo by Rodrigo Pena, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

2. Rock’s steady

A year ago, Tame Impala held down the fort for rock as a headliner, and this year Rage Against The Machine will be even more of a traditional hard rock act in that role. But look around the lineup and you find other artists working with guitars, basses and drums. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard reps the psychedelic side of things. Idles, Fontaines DC and Sleaford Mods serve a harder punky vibe.

Indie rock gets its share of time on stages, too, with Thom Yorke of Radiohead doing his electronic solo work on Saturday, singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey with a top spot on Sunday, and dance pop showing up on different days via performers such as Carly Rae Jepsen, Hot Chip, Charli XCX, and Marina. I’m personally stoked to catch Black Pumas, a soul-rock duo from Austin.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is a J-pop star who will perform as part of Otaquest Live, a celebration of modern Japanese musical acts, at the Novo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Otaquest)

3. We are the world

Coachella has long planted its flag as a festival that represents artists from all around the world and that tasty eclectic flavor continues this year. The K-pop boy band Big Bang, just back together after its four members completed their mandatory South Korean military service, had fans on Twitter fired up after its rapper T.O.P. gave a big hint that it would be in the desert.

Super kawaii J-pop is represented by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, while Mongolian heavy metal gets served via the Hu. Aya Nakamura is NOT from Japan — she took her name from a character on the NBC sci-fi series “Heroes” — but instead is French by way of Mali. Annita is Brazilian. Banda MS is a Mexican band from  Mazatlán in Sinaloa.

This June 23, 2019 file photo shows Lil Nas X performing “Old Town Road” at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. The rapper has earned six Grammy Award nominations, Wednesday, Nov. 20, including one for best new artist, album and record of the year for “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

4. It’s a hitmaker playground

There’s a lot of chart success on the lineup as well, with Lil Nas X, the hip-hop/country singer, perhaps the biggest of the past year thanks to his hit “Old Town Road,” which topped the Billboard 100 for 19 weeks from April to August.

Travis Scott hit No. 1 for one week with “Highest In The Room,” and Lewis Capaldi, who performs Friday, doubled that with “Someone You Loved.”

Megan Thee Stallion had the song of the summer with “Hot Girl Summer,” and DaBaby, Lil Uzi Vert, and Swae Lee all made the Top 10 during 2019.

FKA Twigs performs during the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2019 In Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov 10, 2019. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Contributing Photographer)

5. Coachella’s eclectic heart still beats with these oddball acts

Danny Elfman long ago forswore his Oingo Boingo days for film scores, and he could definitely pull a Hans Zimmer, emulating that film composers terrific orchestral set at Coachella a few years ago. But Elfman did pull out his guitar to do “Dead Man’s Party” during one of his annual “Nightmare Before Christmas” nights at the Hollywood Bowl in 2015, and if there’s ever a place to do it again it’s Coachella.

Lil Nas X would have been here had we not already mentioned him — how many LGBTQ country singers play Coachella after all? Well, two, at least, thanks to the booking of Orville Peck, the always-masked Canadian who, like Lil Nas X, is also booked for Stagecoach.

FKA Twigs is almost beyond categorization but she’s a wonder to see and hear, my favorite set from Camp Flog Gnaw. And surely there are more wonderfully offbeat acts deep in the small type of the lineup, but this is our first take on what’s good.

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