Coachella 2025’s first weekend has come and gone, and to say it was absorbing is an understatement. Like yearly, Coachella is its personal bubble, the place even once you arrive again to your campsite or lodge room and verify social media, tales flood in about particular company and unforgettable moments from the units you needed to miss.
With performances this 12 months from Girl Gaga, Charli XCX, Inexperienced Day, Travis Scott, and Submit Malone, plus Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Weezer, The Prodigy, T-Ache, Mustard, Jimmy Eat World, Basement Jaxx, and (remarkably) Yo Gabba Gabba!, there merely wasn’t time to see everybody, and the times come and go quicker than you’d suppose.
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The weekend turns into one massive blur, an enormous mirage; although this 12 months, if you happen to appeared round laborious sufficient, you can see previous the phantasm. A palm tree caught on hearth from pyrotechnics. Campers waited hours within the searing warmth simply to get via safety. The financial system continues to tank. A pop star named d4vd tried “The Benson Boone” and this ended up taking place. A number of instances this 12 months, it appeared just like the bubble might actually burst, like Coachella’s magical spell could possibly be damaged.
Fortunately, the magic did keep alive all through this weekend, and the social gathering continued with a few of the competition’s all time greatest — and in at the least one case, worst — performances in Coachella historical past. YouTube as soon as once more housed the livestream, so most particular person units are someplace on the web able to be streamed; however if you happen to’re curious how the entire weekend felt from the grounds, right here’s what you didn’t see on the livestream at Coachella 2025.
— Paolo Ragusa
Affiliate Editor
A Hellish Kickoff on the Campgrounds
As any seasoned Coachella camper might let you know, Day Zero is often a pleasant little juicer for the weekend. It’s the proper alternative to construct bonds together with your campmates, wander the grounds, take pleasure in actions each authorized and in any other case, and mentally put together for the weekend. As daybreak breaks over Indio on Thursday morning, essentially the most well-prepared campers start lining up their automobiles within the Polo Fields at 3:30am hoping to snag a main spot with the closest stroll to the competition entrance. The yearly custom begins with a two to three-hour wait as safety meticulously inspects every car, and as soon as they get the all-clear, campers race towards the rising desert solar to arrange their momentary four-day houses to remodel the barren grass right into a bustling competition neighborhood. However this 12 months, what ought to’ve been a pre-festival ritual rapidly spiraled into unorganized chaos.
As a substitute of the manageable few hour wait, 1000’s of campers discovered themselves shuffling alongside for as much as 12 hours simply to enter the campgrounds. As a result of excessively lengthy wait (suppose 4 hours simply to maneuver a half mile), irritated campers have been compelled to take measures into their very own palms, getting out of their automobiles to direct visitors, chopping off their water consumption so that they wouldn’t really feel the necessity to pee, ordering supply meals service straight to their automobiles, or strolling a mile to the closest comfort retailer to re-up on recent provides.
It was a brutal kickoff to the vibes-are-up welcome social gathering that Day Zero normally brings. Our solely hope is that the lesson was realized Weekend One, and fellow Weekend Two campers can be blessed with an improved set of logistics. — Nicolle Periola