The final day of Coachella 2025 kept the heat of the festival going.

Under the sunshine and dusty winds of Indio, California, a plethora of artists brought their music to the thousands of attendees who stuck around for the closing day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. From American hitmakers to international stars, the Sunday performers made the most of the crowd’s remaining energy while delivering their songs.

Read below for the Daily Bruin’s run-through of the last day of the festival.

Junior H

Junior H probably graduated to the Coachella Stage too early.

The 23-year-old artist took the main stage about 10 minutes late at 7:10 p.m. and proceeded to carry the audience through the sunset. Wearing a black checkered outfit and accompanied by a large band that included a trombonist, trumpeters and an accordionist, Junior H languidly paced back and forth while listlessly singing tracks such as “MIENTRAS DUERMES” and “Y LLORO.”

The regional Mexican music Junior H creates was every bit deserving of more attention at Coachella, and highlighting this often-overlooked genre on the main stage was a step in the right direction. However, the lackluster nature of Junior H’s stage presence limited the amount of engagement the audience could have with his music. Unfortunately, each song became another entry in a lackadaisical sequence that blurred together.

Junior H may not have the showmanship of a “ROCKSTAR” yet, but hopefully Sunday’s set provides good practice for future performances.

JENNIE

JENNIE’s performance might have convinced some Coachella attendees to become more “like JENNIE.”

The BLACKPINK member took the stage at the Outdoor Theatre around 7:45 p.m. for a 50-minute set that included 13 songs. Wearing red shorts, a leather jacket and a crop top with a cape, the K-pop artist played several tracks from her new dual-language album “Ruby,” which was released last month. Some of the strongest moments of her time on stage came with the slinky “Love Hangover” and the seductive “Seoul City” as she rolled on stage to the funky groove of the former and flounced between her male backup dancers during the latter.

Not everything about the performance was seamless, however, as for long stretches of the performance, JENNIE did not appear to be singing live into her microphone headset. It was only in the moments when she was temporarily holding a handheld microphone – during songs such as “F.T.S.” – that her vocals seemed to be fully live. She also appeared to be out of breath during some portions of the set, but this can be attributed to her efforts on choreography, with her slew of dancers clad in asymmetrical red outfits.

While her Coachella performance did not solidify her as a fully realized soloist, JENNIE’s “Mantra” on stage appears to be in development.

Megan Thee Stallion

Megan Thee Stallion proved she is as “Savage” as ever during her Coachella set.

The Houston rapper performed on the Coachella Stage beginning around 8:30 p.m. for a set that lasted about 55 minutes and covered more than 20 of her songs. The three-time Grammy Award winner twerked and swirled her hips with abandon while flanked by a troupe of dancers, tossing her red curls and smiling cheekily for each new move. Although Megan Thee Stallion’s second weekend concert lacked the megawatt star power her first weekend set provided – as last weekend she was joined by Queen Latifah, Victoria Monét and Ciara – she still commanded the festival’s biggest stage with non-stop dancing and forceful, emphatic rapping through some of her hardest bars.

In line with her 2024 album “MEGAN,” Megan Thee Stallion’s set featured snake theming and visuals. One of the most bombastic moments of her performance was easily the scorching delivery of her diss track “HISS,” as she blazed through the fiery lyrics while her backup dancers paraded a large serpent behind her on stage. She concluded her performance with a feisty presentation of “Mamushi” – a fitting choice not only because it is one of her more recent hits but also because mamushi is a species of pit viper found in Japan.

For all of her set’s snake imagery, Megan Thee Stallion held the crowd’s gaze as if she were Medusa.

Zedd

More than any other Outdoor Theatre performance, Zedd transformed the Coachella space into a rave-like atmosphere.

The German DJ began his hour-long set around 9:10 p.m., with thousands of festival-goers crowding toward the stage and the flurry of strobe lights that pulsed from it. Perched on an elevated platform with his DJ equipment, the Grammy Award-winning record producer spent most of the set jumping up and down as a projection resembling a church with stained glass windows appeared on screen beside him. Zedd’s performance faltered when he attempted to integrate the music of other artists, such as when he presented a cover of Daft Punk’s “One More Time.” Unlike the source material, Zedd’s version lost the instrumental idiosyncrasies that make “One More Time” an enduring dance floor anthem and disappointingly swapped in more pounding bass.

By comparison, Zedd’s arrangements and mixes were considerably better composed when focusing on his own material, such as the Ariana Grande collaboration “Break Free.” In addition, he included some exciting guests, such as Alessia Cara, who appeared to perform their team-up “Stay,” and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who accompanied him for the closing number “Clarity.” Cara’s presence was impeded by the fact that her microphone was intermittently out, but the LA Phil brought an unexpectedly welcome sonic ingredient to Zedd’s largely synthetic, plasticky warbles and synths.

If they were willing to meet in “The Middle” between vibrant visuals and middling mixes, Coachella festival-goers seemed to have a rollicking time watching Zedd.