Coachella 2025: Lady Gaga, Missy Elliott, and the Go-Go’s with Billie Joe Armstrong among Friday’s highlights
Lady Gaga returned to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in spectacular fashion on Friday, delivering a performance of gothic art-pop that mixed new songs and old hits, dazzling choreography and costumes, all of it on a stage designed to look like a decaying Parisian opera house.
When longtime Coachella fans talk about the greatest headlining sets in the festival’s history, they talk about Beyoncé in 2018 and Prince a decade earlier. With 20 songs over two hours on Frida