Singer-songwriter will open festival’s Mojave tent on Saturday in highly coveted slot
Surprise! Jack White, who was not scheduled to perform at Coachella, was included in the set times announcement on Tuesday. The singer-songwriter will perform a 45-minute set on Saturday, opening the festival’s Mojave tent at 3 p.m., setting up a run of shows that will include Interpol and PinkPantheress at the tent later in the day. The artist’s website lists only April 11 as a Coachella appearance, suggesting he may not return for Coachella’s second weekend.
The festival, whose lineup announcements have long been spoofed to include performers not officially scheduled by wishful and impish fans, posted the set times to its official Instagram. “STFU,” it commented with the announcement, adding the parenthetical, “(Set Times for U).”
The appearance will take place exactly a week (minus a few hours) since White performed two new songs on Saturday Night Live, on April 4. The artist, who made his fifth overall appearance on the program, sang “Derecho Demonico” and “G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs” on the show. White had released the two new songs only a day before his SNL appearance.
White released his last album, No Name, in 2024. A Rolling Stone review praised it, saying the album bore “some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he’s given us in many, many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in.” Other than Coachella, White has gigs scheduled across continental Europe throughout the summer. His next U.S. date, after Coachella, is scheduled at East Aurora, New York’s Borderland Festival.
