Coachella 2011 starts on Friday, and there are a lot of good musical acts there, but luckily for those of us who don’t get to attend, we can still watch it online.

The popular music and arts festival is streaming live on the Coachella YouTube channel from April 15 – 17.

Here’s the artist line-up:

The actual schedule can be found here (hat tip to Clicker).

YouTube is actually placing a great deal more focus on live content these days. Last week, the company announced the launch of YouTube Live, a new destination for live content on YouTube, as well as platform for streaming live video.

Unfortunately, the platform wil not be immediately available to all users – only trusted partners – but clearly, users still benefit by having more video of live events, just like Coachella.