Coachella sold out in five days after announcing Justin Bieber as headliner. That's the good news. The bad news? It tells you how hard it's become to book a headline act who can actually move 250,000 tickets for the one of most premiere music festivals in the world.
Dave Brooks, a music correspondent at Puck and host of the Decibel and Docket podcast, joins the show to break down the business of festival season 2026. We get into why the biggest artists no longer need Coachella, which festivals are actually profitable, and what's ahead for live music.
CHAPTERS
07:46 The Bieber Effect
08:02 Stadium Money
11:50 Why Stagecoach is Different
21:13 Lollapalooza
23:43 Chris Brown and Kanye West
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