Best Friends Forever announces 2025 set times

We’re less than a month away from the 2025 edition of Las Vegas festival Best Friends Forever, and they’ve announced this year’s set times. There are two stages and no overlapping sets, with music beginning at 12:30 PM and ending at 11:30 PM each day, and you can see each day’s schedule below.

Best Friends Forever runs from October 10-12 at Downown Las Vegas Events Center, and Friday’s lineup has Minus the Bear (playing Menos el Oso for its 20th anniversary), Mineral (farewell show), Cursive (their first of two sets, playing Domestica), Bear vs. Shark (playing Terrorhawk), Superchunk, Rival Schools, Narrow Head, Knapsack, Milly, Snowing, Speedy Ortiz, Prize Horse, and Crochet.

Saturday’s lineup includes Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason (reunion set), Pedro the Lion (30th anniversary set), Pretty Girls Make Graves, J. Robbins plays Burning Airlines, Hey Mercedes, Tigers Jaw, Oakwood, Pity Sex, Midrift, Knumears, February, and awakebutstillinbed.

Sunday features Jimmy Eat World (their set is billed as “including songs from their seminal album Clarity plus others rarely heard in their live shows”), Rilo Kiley, Cursive (their second set of the weekend, playing The Ugly Organ), Marietta, Wednesday, The Appleseed Cast, Mates of State, Penfold, Elliott, These Arms are Snakes, Ozma, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), and Tiger Bike.