{"id":791981,"date":"2019-01-12T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=778372"},"modified":"2019-01-12T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T22:00:06","slug":"report-kanye-west-pulled-out-of-coachella-over-dome-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/report-kanye-west-pulled-out-of-coachella-over-dome-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kanye West Pulled Out of Coachella Over Dome Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kanye West<\/a> reportedly pulled out as Coachella<\/a> headliner just days before the festival announced its 2019 lineup<\/a> after organizers would not meet the rapper\u2019s demands that a dome be built on the festival grounds.<\/p>\n

Billboard<\/em> reports<\/a> that on New Year\u2019s Day, Coachella organizers were set to reveal West as one of its headliners when the rapper asked the festival to construct him a custom-built dome to house his performance.<\/p>\n

The dome, conceived by West\u2019s set designer John McGuire, would have provided a 360-degree production with \u201chigh-tech production and immersive video\u201d and West at the center of the dome.<\/p>\n

However, organizers informed West that it would \u201cimpossible\u201d to construct the dome in time for the April festival, and that constructing the dome would force organizers to remove a large section of port-a-potties; West scoffed at Coachella organizers for hindering his creative vision over portable toilets, Billboard<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

Following West\u2019s demands, Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett reached out to Ariana Grande\u2019s management to secure the pop singer as Sunday headliner in place of West, who did not sign a contract for the headliner slot; two weeks earlier, West and Grande briefly sparred on Twitter<\/a>. New York\u2019s Governors Ball also reportedly denied West\u2019s dome demands.<\/p>\n

Billboard<\/em> noted that Justin Timberlake, a rumored Coachella headliner, was forced to skip the festival due to both his rescheduled Man of the Woods tour as well as built-in radius clauses preventing him from performing within several hundreds of miles of the festival and within a certain period of Coachella.<\/p>\n

Tame Impala were instead elevated to Saturday night headliners, with Childish Gambino the Friday night headliner. Tickets for the festival\u2019s two weekends sold out within six hours.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kanye West reportedly pulled out as Coachella headliner just days before the festival announced its 2019 lineup after organizers would not meet the rapper\u2019s demands that a dome be built on the festival grounds. Billboard reports that on New Year\u2019s Day, Coachella organizers were set to reveal West as one of its headliners when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:15:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}