A video montage condemning Iran, Gaza, and decades of CIA actions closes weekend two.
The Strokes transformed their performance into a political funeral pyre.
As frontman Julian Casablancas chanted “What side you standing on” from the decade-dormant track ‘Oblivius,’ the main stage screens erupted with wartime footage and a scathing video montage.
The Strokes closed out their Coachella set with “Oblivius” featuring political figures/leaders overthrown by Western governments
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The visual essay accused the CIA of a bloody history of foreign interventions, from assassinating South American leaders to toppling Iranian and Chilean governments, while also referencing a conspiracy theory linking the US to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
The crescendo arrived with stark imagery of bombings in Gaza and Iran, ending on a lone bomber plane as the music cut to dead silence.
Unlike last year’s controversy with Kneecap, Coachella’s livestream fully broadcast the message.
The Strokes made it brutally clear: on a stage built for escape, they chose to remind 100,000 people of the bombs falling in the real world.
