Coachella is famously one of the vital trendsetting festivals on the planet, that means {that a} robust efficiency there can considerably enhance an artist’s profile and trajectory.
A brand new documentary collection from Coachella producer Goldenvoice explores this phenomenon by means of the lens of 2025 performances from Shaboozey, Ivan Cornejo, Djo, The Marias and The Dare. Sponsored by T-Cellular and co-produced by inventive company MGX, the five-part Arrival started unrolling on YouTube earlier this summer season, with the ultimate episode that includes Djo debuting extra not too long ago.
Arrival appears at how artists typically design their total annual schedule round a Coachella set, with Djo’s supervisor Nick Stern saying within the doc that “it was actually an thrilling second after we came upon we received our Coachella supply. We had been planning the album cycle and the touring cycle actually primarily based round Coachella, so in a manner, it was a giant reduction to get that provide, but in addition all the time thrilling to be requested to play for 20,000 individuals.”
Taking viewers behind the scenes, from every artist getting ready for the present to the efficiency itself, Arrival appears at how taking part in Coachella is a milestone second for many any act. “Fortunately we received by means of … all of these actually troublesome and awkward moments to now taking part in the Outside Stage at Coachella,” María Zardoya of indie pop band The Marias says within the group’s episode, with the bandmate Josh Conway including that “we caught to our intestine, and right here we’re.”
“I’m so grateful that Goldenvoice Productions selected us to doc such a particular second for us in Arrival,” Zardoya tells Billboard. “It memorialized a efficiency that ended up being my favourite within the band’s historical past. It really felt just like the ‘second’ we had been working towards during the last eight years as a band. I do know it received’t be our final; foremost stage subsequent.”
“Making the episode of Arrival actually put every thing into perspective for us,” provides Conway. “Between the conversations about our expertise and historical past as a band, and going by means of our reminiscence containers, it made an already monumental Coachella efficiency much more particular.”
Arrival follows a 2024 mini-documentary from Goldenvoice Productions known as Busy P Says Oui that explores the process of reserving Daft Punk’s historical past making 2006 Coachella set.
“After we started this partnership between MGX and Coachella, our purpose was all the time to create a collection that went past simply the lead-up to the pageant,” collection director at MGX CEO Karam Gill tells Billboard. “We needed every episode to discover deeper cultural themes, inventive influences, and private tales — giving followers an intimate take a look at a few of this 12 months’s most enjoyable artists.”
Watch the Djo episode under and discover the entire Arrival collection on YouTube.