The Weeknd, Swedish Home Mafia Tapped to Carry out Kanye’s Coachella Headline Spot

The honchos at Coachella have discovered their alternative act to fill Kanye‘s slot as headliner for the most important evening of the competition — The Weeknd will be part of Swedish Home Mafia.

Sources with direct data inform us Abel has agreed to the gig, and Swedish Home Mafia — who was presupposed to headline Friday evening — will now go Sunday. The pairing makes plenty of sense, the 2 have the hit tune “Moth to a Flame” collectively, launched simply this yr.

SHM and The Weeknd additionally each have the identical administration workforce, underneath SALXCO … so each side have been already acquainted.

What’s extra … the efficiency marks SHM’s massive return to the desert in addition to a form of kickoff to their album “Paradise Once more,” which can launch April 15 adopted by a world tour this summer season.

We’re informed presently it is unclear precisely how the present will work, if one will carry out earlier than the opposite, or if they will change off all through the set … nevertheless, we’re informed given time constraints to get a present prepared, Weeknd’s present will seemingly be shorter than regular, and he is basically a bonus to what would’ve already been a kickass SHM set.

TMZ broke the story — The Weeknd, Silk Sonic and Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers have been on the organizer’s brief record of acts to take Kanye’s spot … Silk Sonic shut it down, as Bruno Mars did not consider there was sufficient time to get a worthy present collectively.

Nonetheless, our sources say there have been another names being thought of by organizers as nicely, together with Justin Bieber and Travis Scott. We’re informed Travis was unable to get a present collectively due to time constraints.

After all, Travis was presupposed to headline in 2020 — however that was canceled due to COVID — and once more in 2022, however Coachella canceled his efficiency after the tragedy at Astroworld. Clearly, it is a good signal for TS followers eager to see him again on mainstream competition levels if Coachella execs have been prepared to begin talks again up along with his workforce.