Coachella 2025 desert jubilee balances the new and the nostalgia
California music jubilee to see record highs and headlining sets from Lady Gaga, Post Malone and Green Day
@smarthafiz's blog
12 Apr 2025
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Stars similar as Lady Gaga, Charli xcx, Ed Sheeran and Missy Elliott will face blazing temperatures this weekend at an surprisingly hot Coachella jubilee.
The California- grounded jubilee will soar to potentially record- breaking highs of 103F( over 39C) in its first of two successive weekends, about 10- 20 degrees Fahrenheit advanced than what’s generally anticipated at this time of time.
The jubilee, which generally attracts around 125,000 people a day, is following a time that saw its slowest deals to date, headlined by Doja Cat, Lana del Rey and Tyler, the Creator. The 2025 edition is being viewed by some as an unofficial comeback with principals Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone, who together boast 24 advanced global Spotify aqueducts than the former triad.
Gaga preliminarily headlined Coachella in 2017, when she also mugged scenes for A Star Is Born. In a recent interview, she said she'd concentrate on her new reader, Mayhem, but also give suckers the aged successes they want. She said she saw it as “ an occasion to do commodity unique and special ” but remained closemouthed about specifics.
“ I authentically do n’t want to give anything down about Coachella, ” she said. “ I know that's inhuman of me, in a way, but I could actually cry on the phone with you just allowing about how agitated I'm to do this show, and I want it to be a total surprise, and want everyone to have as important fun as possible. ”
The lineup boasts a wide variety of acts from different stripes and ages. The newer guard is represented by Lola Young, Shaboozey, Amyl and the Sniffers, Rema, underscores and Glorilla, while nostalgia plays are led by Jimmy Eat World, Missy Elliott, Kraftwerk, Basement Jaxx and the Go- Gos.
The weekend will also see the Prodigy play, returning to Coachella for the first time since Keith Flint failed in 2019. “ I'll say that us carrying on is n’t a Keith homage show, ” band member Liam Howlett lately told the Los Angeles Times. “ We want to recognize him, and we will continue to do that, because Keith is further than just a person they saw on stage. Indeed though he was n’t a musician, he was such an important person in the plant as a right- hand man. ”
Another fogy act playing is Weezer, a band who have been making captions this week after bassist Scott Shriner’s woman
, Jillian Lauren, was shot by police. Reports claim that she aimed a handgun at officers as they delved an unconnected megahit- and- run incident and she's now being charged with tried murder.
The band is still set to perform as listed with Scott saying “ see you at Coachella ” to intelligencers on Thursday.
One act who wo n’t be performing is FKA outgrowths, who was forced to pull out “ due to ongoing visa issues ” related to her product platoon reportedly failing to fill out the correct paperwork in time. The star wrote that she was “ devastated ” in an Instagram statement.
Rising costs and more complicated logistics have also caused trouble for other artists seeking visas to perform. “ I just did visas for a Coachella band and it was$ 8,000, ” a booking agency superintendent told the Los Angeles Times. “ It’s getting a huge fiscal chain because it takes so long through regular channels, you have to go for the heavy- duty expediting. ”