Moby to Donate 100% of Coachella Profits to Animal Rights Organisations Following Standout Festival Return

Moby has announced that he will donate 100% of his profits from his performances at Coachella festival, 10th-19th April 2026, to a selection of leading animal rights organisations, following a phenomenal return to the iconic California stage on Friday night of the festival.

This announcement continues a long-standing commitment from Moby to align his music with activism, with all of his sold-out 2024 shows seeing 100% of profits donated to animal rights organisations, reinforcing an ethos that consistently places purpose before profit. 

Speaking on the initiative, Moby said:

“My main job in life is working as an animal rights activist, and to that end, my hope is to use the revenue and attention from my Coachella show to draw attention to, and financially support, animal rights organisations. There are countless amazing organisations globally, but for the profits from Coachella, I’ll be donating to the following:”

• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• Mercy For Animals
• The Humane League
• Direct Action Everywhere

The Coachella performances mark the start of a major run of live activity in 2026, with a 28-date European tour set to follow from June through August. Spanning the continent from Denmark to Greece, and Ireland to Bulgaria, the tour will combine major festivals, historic venues and open-air settings – including sold-out UK shows at On The Beach, Brighton, London’s Old Royal Naval College and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin – bringing his latest album Future Quiet to life alongside a catalogue that has shaped electronic music for over three decades.

Highlights of 2026

Guest appearance from Jacob Lusk, who joined Moby on ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die’ and ‘Natural Blues’, delivering an emotionally euphoric high point to the set, released earlier this year, Future Quiet signals a more introspective chapter, built around piano minimalism and ambient composition. Reflecting a growing need for stillness in an increasingly chaotic world, with many positive receptions from The Sun and The Sunday Times, both describing it as “The perfect antidote to anxiety… Wonderful.”, and “a semi-classical piece of calming power… beauty, with soaring strings and heavenly choirs.”

About Moby

Moby was born Richard Melville Hall in Harlem, NYC, in 1965. His father gave him his nickname “Moby” when he was 10 minutes old, as a result of his hereditary relationship to Herman Melville. Moby started playing classical music and studying music theory when he was 9 years old, and then came of age musically in the punk rock scene in and around NYC in the early 80s. He released his first single, “Go,” in 1991 (listed as one of “Rolling Stone” magazine’s best records of all time), and has since sold over 20,000,000 albums worldwide.

Moby works with and supports a variety of non-profit organisations, including The Humane Society, Emily’s List, The ACLU, and The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function.

Little Walnut, founded by Moby with producer Lindsay Hicks in 2024, is an artist-first production company rooted in activism and guided by story. Working across fiction and nonfiction, short- and long-form, the company supports bold, boundary-pushing films that expand empathy, challenge dominant narratives through craft, and reach broad audiences through unique storytelling. Current projects include The Incomer (winner of the NEXT Innovator Award at the Sundance Film Festival), The Making of Jesus Diabetes, Tecie, and The Eternal Return.

MobyGratis, the free music licensing platform designed to support independent and student filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, producers, and other creatives, is also very woven into the idea of Little Walnut, as it is an initiative that supports storytellers, offering free music for their projects. MobyGratis continues to break down financial barriers in the arts by providing high-quality music to anyone who could benefit from it. Relaunched in 2025, this latest iteration also introduces collaborative options, enabling musicians and producers to remix and rework Moby’s instrumentals in ways never before possible.