Who Might Replace Kanye West at Coachella? Tyler, the Creator and Silk Sonic Are Available, But…

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen the 2022 Coachella lineup was announced back in early January, Swedish House Mafia had rare, almost unprecedented placement in the hierarchy of the festival’s all-important official poster: in a headliner-sized font, but at the bottom of the lineup, and with no specific date listed.Variety unspooled several hundred words speculating about what that might mean, one possibility of which was that the festival was hedging its bets in case headliner Kanye West — who’d pulled out of a previous Coachella lineup literally days before it was announced — pulled out again, which is exactly what happened on Monday.Yet in the hours after news broke that West would not be performing at the festival, which starts in 10 days, speculation was rife about who — if anyone — might fill his slot.

Variety has been blowing up phones for the past 24 hours trying to find out what’s what (as has Hits magazine), and while we don’t have any definitive answers, we’ve got some interesting off-the record perspectives.

It is important to note that not just anyone can pull off a headlining set at North America’s biggest and most popular music festival.

The gold standard, of course, is Beyonce’s 2018 “Homecoming” set, a visually and musically electrifying spectacle that made waves all across the world.Headliners also must bring their A-game or risk being upstaged by acts lower on the bill: In 2006, Daft Punk premiered their pyramid show, one of the pivotal concert performances of the decade, at Coachella, but they were billed below Depeche Mode.