Nine Inch Noize full Coachella set

Nine Inch Noize played its first full standalone set at Coachella on Saturday, April 11, turning a tour side segment into a 45-minute Sahara Tent show. (rollingstone.com) The group is Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails with Alex Ridha, the producer who performs as Boys Noize. Coachella booked the act on its 2026 poster after the trio had been folding shorter Nine Inch Noize sections into Nine Inch Nails’ Peel It Back Tour. (brooklynvegan.com) The set had 11 songs in 45 minutes and was livestreamed from the Sahara Tent at 8 p.m. after Coachella moved the performance from Friday to Saturday on the official schedule. (edm.com) (brooklynvegan.com) Mariqueen Maandig joined for six songs, including “Vessel,” “She’s Gone Away,” “Heresy,” “Parasite,” “Came Back Haunted,” and “As Alive as You Need Me to Be.” The show also added dancers, a sloped stage built around the trio’s synth setup, and a large rear screen that expanded the smaller visual concept from the tour. (brooklynvegan.com) (nin.wiki) Most of the material came from remixed Nine Inch Nails songs that had already appeared in the tour segment, but Coachella introduced three additions: “Heresy,” “Copy of A,” and a cover of Soft Cell’s “Memorabilia.” Rolling Stone reported that the set was built entirely from beat-driven reworks of Reznor’s catalog. (brooklynvegan.com) (rollingstone.com) The timing was not accidental. Rolling Stone reported that a Nine Inch Noize album is due next week, and BrooklynVegan noted that the second Coachella weekend performance lands on Saturday, April 18, one day after the album’s release. (rollingstone.com) (brooklynvegan.com) That makes the Coachella booking less like a cameo and more like a launch: a festival-scale test of whether the Reznor-Ross-Boys Noize collaboration can stand on its own outside a Nine Inch Nails set. Coachella has already scheduled a second performance for April 18 at the same festival. (nin.wiki) (setlist.fm) For now, the clearest takeaway is that Nine Inch Noize arrived at Coachella as a named curiosity on the poster and left with a full set, a fixed setlist, and another festival date still ahead. (brooklynvegan.com) (setlist.fm)