Another Coachella is upon us, and if you plan to spend the next two weekends in the California desert (specifically on the weekends of April 11, 12, 13 and 18, 19, 20), there are several iconic artists you don’t want to miss!
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This year’s festival will be headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone, and Travis Scott. They’ll be joined by Ed Sheeran, Sam Fender, Weezer, Kraftwerk, Japanese Breakfast, Charli XCX, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, and the classic lineup of “The Original” Misfits, featuring Glenn Danzig, bassist Jerry Only, and guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein.
Below are three artists not to miss at Coachella 2025! You can find the full schedule here.
Lady Gaga
On her latest album Mayhem, Lady Gaga returns to form by borrowing from her past to create her most inspired collection in years. Take the single “Abracadabra” and its gibberish earworm chant, a nod to her defining banger “Bad Romance”. The single and its accompanying music video find Gaga at the top of her game, and you can imagine the theatrics she has planned for her headlining set at Coachella.
Green Day
If you’re in the mood for 1990s pop-punk, few bands do it better than Green Day. Last year, they released their latest studio album, Saviors. Sonically, it aims for the glory days of MTV’s Total Request Live. Green Day is a band with many hits, and in the mid-1990s, their songs dominated MTV and modern rock radio. Punk rock traditionally relies on youth, angst, and loud rebellion. But middle-aged Green Day has plenty of timeless anthems to satisfy those nostalgic for white belts and Manic Panic hair dye.
Weezer
The Blue Album turned 30 last year. And Weezer celebrated their massive debut by embarking on The Voyage To The Blue Planet Tour. Catch them under Coachella 2025’s Mojave tent to hear Gen X slacker hits like “Buddy Holly”, “Undone (The Sweater Song)”, and “Say It Ain’t So”. Rivers Cuomo blended geek humor with indie rock and heavy metal. On paper, that doesn’t seem like a blueprint (pun intended) for success. But in 1994, Weezer songs were as ubiquitous as anything by Green Day or Nirvana.
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