Why did Travis Scott's set lead to Coachella getting fined? Music festival ordered to pay $20K after breaking a rule

Travis Scott Performs At Hayarkon Park - Source: Getty
Coachella fined for Travis Scott's set (Image via Shlomi Pinto/Getty Images)

The City of Indio fined music festival organizer Goldenvoice after Travis Scott's performance during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Weekend 1. This year marks the rapper's return to the Coachella stage since 2017, but the first weekend of his headlining set ended up with a $20,000 fine for the organizers.

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On Saturday, April 12, 2025, Travis Scott reportedly started his headlining set late and played until 1:03 am, three minutes past the 1:00 am curfew on Friday and Saturday events. With Goldenvoice's longstanding agreement with the city about curfew time, they have to pay $20,000 each time a performance goes past the allotted time.

There's also an additional fine worth $1000 served per minute starting at the sixth minute past the curfew. In Scott's Coachella performance, his set only exceeded the time limit by three minutes, so Goldenvoice will be paying the base $20,000 fine. With that said, Scott's April 12 performance was the only one fined. The next Saturday, while his performance ran late, he was able to close it on time.

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While it was the only curfew-related fine Goldenvoice has been hit with across both weekends, it wasn't the first time that the festival organizer received hefty fines because the performance ran beyond the cut-off time. In 2024, Coachella faced around $28,000 in curfew-related fines for Lana Del Rey's set during Weekend 2 of the festival.

Also, in 2023, the festival organizers had to pay up to $117,000 during the first weekend after three performances broke the city-mandated curfew. Bad Bunny reportedly went 25 minutes over the allotted time, Frank Ocean also went 25 minutes past curfew, and Calvin Harris by 22 minutes.

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Travis Scott teases the release of his upcoming Jackboys 2

Weeks before his 2-weekend headlining set at Coachella, Travis Scott announced that Jackboys 2 is "on the way" while he was onstage at Miami's LIV nightclub on March 24, 2025. Coachella came and went, and on Monday, April 28, the rapper teased when he would possibly release the second installment of his Cactus Jack label compilation album.

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In an Instagram post where he wished his mother, Wanda, a happy birthday, Travis Scott revealed that he played all tracks in JB2 for her, saying:

"PS I PLAYED HERE JACKBOYS 2 SHE SAID DROP ON YOUR BDAY BABY JACK. !!!!"

If Scott follows his mother’s advice, his new project could be released on April 30, his 34th birthday.

While the release date for JB2 isn’t confirmed, Scott has said the album is finished.

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The tracklist is also unknown, but at Coachella 2025, he performed two new songs, tentatively titled She Goin Dumb and On Jacques, according to Billboard. It's still unclear if these songs are for Jackboys 2 or his next solo album.

Travis Scott's first Jackboys compilation was released in December 2019. According to Billboard, the 7-track project, which featured Lil Baby, Offset, Young Thug, Quavo, and more, topped the Billboard 200.


Stay tuned for more news and updates on new music from Travis Scott and others as the year progresses.

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