Green Day was one of last night’s (Saturday, April 12) headliners at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, alongside Travis Scott. The set marked the punk trio’s debut performance at the Indio, California festival, despite frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joining the Replacements on stage in 2014. Scroll down to check out clips of their performance, and rewind the livestream below to watch it in full.
During their 18-song set, Green Day played hits and fan-favorites spanning 1994’s Dookie through their latest album, 2024’s Saviors. Armstrong, drummer Tré Cool, and bassist Mike Dirnt kicked things off with a trio of songs from their 2004 record American Idiot, changing one of the title track’s lyrics to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” This was one of several politically charged moments throughout the evening, including a rendition of “Jesus of Suburbia” that featured the reworked line “Running away from pain like the kids from Palestine.”
Armstrong & co. also worked a few classic rock references into their set, including a bunny-suited hype man who ran around onstage to Ramones’ “Blitzkreig Bop” to herald the band’s arrival. Later on, “Hitchin’ a Ride” teased the riff to Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” opened with a few bars from Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’.” Continuing a long-standing tradition, the band invited one fan onstage to help sing “Know Your Enemy,” and another to play acoustic guitar on closing number “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).”
Green Day announced Saviors back in the fall of 2023, releasing their zombie-filled black-and-white video for “The American Dream Is Killing Me” that same day. They also shared the singles “Look Ma, No Brains!” and “Dilemma” during the rollout. The LP follows the band’s 2020 full-length Father of All…
Revisit Marc Hogan’s 2017 Sunday Review of Dookie, and follow along with all of Pitchfork’s coverage of Coachella 2025.
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