On May 10, 2025, the band were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live for the seventh time in their career, performing “Year of the Snake” and “Pink Elephant” on the penultimate episode of its fiftieth season .
the tour commenced with nine North American shows beginning April 22, 2025, in Mexico City
On April 7, 2025, at the end of the radio mix in the Trust app, Butler and Chassagne announced the new album Pink Elephant to be released on May 9.
On April 4, the band published a teaser video clip on their social media accounts, and they released a social network mobile app brand-named Trust. In the app, the band published video clips including a song “Cars and Telephones”.
On 21 March 2025, Bastille announced the From All Sides Tour, taking place throughout November 2025 to celebrate 15 years of the band.
In March, during an interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles , Albarn said he was finishing a new Gorillaz album.
In March 2025, members of Arcade Fire performed at Luck Reunion, outside of Austin, where they debuted new songs from their forthcoming album. These tracks included “Pink Elephant”, “Ride or Die”, and “Year of the Snake”.
During the band’s 25 February 2025 show in Osaka , they played ” State of the Nation ” live for the first time since 1987.
Hodgson later opined in a February 2025 retrospective interview with the Daily Mirror that the band should have disbanded instead of replacing him.
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Gorillaz released a video on 29 January 2025 titled Nostalgiaz , featuring clips from their music videos set to “Pirate’s Progress” from Plastic Beach .