Music fans are ready to rock for the next two weekends as Coachella 2012 returns to California's Mojave Desert on Friday. With a stacked lineup of 143 bands and tens of thousands of attendees expected, Coachella will be music's biggest event of the year.

Coachella has pushed boundaries in the past. It has redefined what festivals are about, and has a different character to other festivals around the world, Tye Comer, editor of Billboard.com, told Reuters.

The 2012 music festival marks the first year organizers have scheduled the three-day festival for two consecutive weekends.

Coachella is a concert that warrants such expansion.

It's what makes Coachella so unique because you won't see Dr. Dre and Snoop performing at Lollapalooza or Bonnaroo. Coachella's really good at going back 20 or 30 years, finding artists and pulling them back onto the main stage, Comer told Reuters.

The set times for the 2012 Coachella lineup have been released for both weekends.

For those not lucky enough to be holding tickets to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, the music festival will be live-streamed online on Coachella's official YouTube channel. The channel offers a full schedule of the lineup plus the times each live stream is available and on the various channels.

Head over to YouTube.com/Coachella to watch the live streams of the 2012 Coachella Music Festival, starting Friday April 13 at 3:55 p.m.

Below is the YouTube schedule for the first weekend.

Friday, April 13

3:55 PM - James
4:00 PM - GIVERS
4:10 PM - honeyhoney
4:40 PM - Neon Indian
5:00 PM - Gary Clark Jr.
5:05 PM - Grouplove
5:25 PM - Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong
6:00 PM - Yuck
6:20 PM - Dawes
6:30 PM - Arctic Monkeys
7:00 PM - Wu Lyf
7:10 PM - Madness
7:50 PM - Pulp
8:15 PM - Frank Ocean
8:15 PM - Ximena Sarinan
8:50 PM - Mazzy Star
9:10 PM - The Rapture
9:45 PM - The Black Keys
10:05 PM - Explosions in the Sky
10:50 PM - The Black Angels
11:15 PM - M83
11:20 PM - Refused
12:10 AM - Amon Tobin
12:25 AM - Swedish House Mafia

Saturday, April 14

3:25 PM - The Big Pink
3:30 PM - Childish Gambino
3:30 PM - The Vaccines
4:05 PM - AWOLNATION
4:15 PM - We Were Promised Jetpacks
4:20 PM - Azealia Banks
4:50 PM - tUnE-yArDs
5:00 PM - Destroyer
5:15 PM - Buzzcocks
5:35 PM - Kaiser Chiefs
6:05 PM - Manchester Orchestra
6:30 PM - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
6:30 PM - Laura Marling
7:15 PM - Squeeze
7:20 PM - Andrew Bird
7:45 PM - St. Vincent
8:05 PM - Grace Potter
8:10 PM - The Shins
8:55 PM - Kasabian
9:30 PM - Bon Iver
10:10 PM - Miike Snow
11:05 PM - TBA
11:35 PM - A$AP Rocky

Sunday, April 15

3:25 PM - Wild Beasts
3:30 PM - Oberhofer
3:30 PM - Santigold
4:20 PM - Real Estate
4:35 PM - The Growlers
4:45 PM - Fitz and the Tantrums
5:20 PM - Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
5:30 PM - Band of Skulls
5:45 PM - Wild Flag
6:15 PM - Beats Antique
6:40 PM - Greg Ginn
6:50 PM - The Hives
7:10 PM - The Airplane Boys
7:45 PM - Justice
8:30 PM - Beirut
9:30 PM - Gotye
9:45 PM - Modeselektor
9:45 PM - Florence + the Machine
10:35 PM - TBD

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