Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott will headline Coachella 2025.
Scott, whose prominent billing comes with the description “designs the desert”, will reportedly design an immersive experience called CatcusCon, Rolling Stone reported, and will perform after Green Day’s set on the Saturday nights.
His appearance at Coachella comes five years after his aborted headline performance at the 2020 festival, which was cancelled due to Covid. He was then booked again for the 2022 festival, then removed from the lineup when 10 people died in a crowd crush at his Astroworld festival in 2021.
This will be the second time Lady Gaga has headlined Coachella, having stepped in to replace Beyoncé in 2017 when she postponed her performance due to her pregnancy.
Post Malone has performed at Coachella multiple times before but has never headlined. In their 37-year career, Green Day has never performed at Coachella, though Billie Joe Armstrong joined the Replacements on stage in 2014.
“Death, taxes, and rock’n’roll,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone. “In this world gone sideways, we know one thing for certain: rock’n’roll is forever, and its spirit is needed now more than ever. So bring your rage, your hope, and your loudest voice. Coachella, let’s have the time of our lives.”
Other acts performing at Coachella next year include Megan Thee Stallion, Charli xcx, Missy Elliot, Benson Boone, the Prodigy, FKA twigs, Clairo, Sam Fender, Parcels, Blonde Redhead, Shaboozey, Amyl and the Sniffers, K-pop group Enhypen, children’s musical TV show Yo Gabba Gabba!, beabadoobee, and Blackpink members Jennie and Lisa, who will perform separately this year after performing together in 2023 as the first Asian and all-female act to ever headline Coachella.
Last year’s Coachella headliners were Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator, Doja Cat and No Doubt, but the festival saw its slowest ticket sales for a decade.
Coachella will be held at its usual site, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, over two weekends in April: 11-13 April and 18-20 April.
Source: theguardian.com
