The California desert was buzzing on Friday, April 11 when the main Coachella Music Festival began, with Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott, the main stage of the first day. Thousands of music fans crossed the extensive lands that whipped paper fans and paired the umbrellas, as temperatures broke the 100 -degree Fahrenheit brand (37.8 degrees Celsius).
That caused sun protection dispensers and water recharge stations some of the most popular destinations in poorly shaded land while the afternoon sun burned and those attending the camp put their tents.
The desert weekend marks the unofficial starting season of the Music Festival, which Lady Gaga is preparing to start an explosion. Just out of the launch of your last album ViolenceThe pop superstar has promised “a massive night of chaos.” “I can’t wait to listen to all Singgalong and dance dance until we fall,” he published when the alignment was announced. Other features of Friday include Australian plots of the electropop band, and a strange appearance in Stasside of British punk ravers the prodigy.
The South African star Tyla will also perform on Friday, a year after an injury forced her to leave the 2024 festival. And the Lisa de Blackpink, just out of paper in the successful HBO program “White Lotus”, will take the solo stage on Friday night, which has performed twice in Coachella with its band bands.
Later, on the weekend, Charli XCX, is expected to become the “Brat” Green firm on the land, after a successful year that saw its last album boost it at new levels of fame. Travis Scott will play a special guest position after Green Day set, years after the Hip-Hop artist was scheduled to head the 2020 festival, which was finally discarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Roca revival
The lush dancers from The Kids Television Show “I Gabba Gabba!” He made leading appearances on the grounds on Friday afternoon, delights the young and older Juerguistas who rushed to take selfies with the characters. The program launched for the first time in 2007 has a cult and is scheduled to make a full set on Saturday, an performance that promises to present a number or invited stars of celebrities. “So many ‘children’ attribute the festival, grew up seeing the program,” said Show Cooking Christian Jacobs in an interview between AFP racks. “That is exciting.”
Just out of a victory at Grammy, the Rawayana Venezuelan band is also prepared to play in a slot on Saturday. And celebrities director Gustavo Dudamel in particular, will direct the Los Angeles Philharmonic at a Sunset concert.
There are bone orchestral performances in Coachella before: Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer films composers were exhibited in the last decade, but Saturday’s performance will be the first time that a large professional orchestra has touched there.
The hip-hop superstar Tea Stallion will direct the main stage on Sunday before post Malone’s main performance, with Ty Dolla $ igno to act. Also on Sunday, the French duo Polo & Pan will bring its electro with tropicalia infusion, return to the Coachella Valley. The German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are another raffle, as well as two of the best new artists of 2025 Grammy Nominine, Shaboozey and Benson Boone.
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And although Coachella has decisively inclined in the last decade, the 2025 edition will return to the rock roots of the festival. Together with Green Day, rock acts, including the go-people, original misfits, the world of Jimmy Eat and the cult punk legends, the idiots Circle are scheduled to play. “In this world he went sideways, we know a safe thing: the rock ‘n’ roll is forever, and his spirit is now necessary more than ever,” said Green Day leader, Billie Joe Armstrong, earlier this year in Billboard. Coachella 2025 will take place from April 11 to 13 and 18-20.
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