Nine Inch Noize’s industrial rave

Nine Inch Noize made its full live debut at Coachella on Saturday, turning Trent Reznor’s catalog into a hard-edged dance set in the Sahara tent. (latimes.com) The project pairs Nine Inch Nails with German-Iraqi producer Alex Ridha, who records as Boys Noize, and Coachella scheduled the set for 8 p.m. Pacific time on April 11 on the Sahara stage. (coachella.com) Reviewers described the performance as a remix-heavy overhaul of Nine Inch Nails songs, with techno rhythms and synth distortion pushed ahead of the band’s usual guitar attack. (latimes.com) That shift had been building for months. Nine Inch Nails brought Boys Noize on the 2025 and 2026 “Peel It Back” tour, and fan documentation says the Coachella set expanded the electronic middle section they had already been performing together. (nin.com, nin.wiki) Coachella gave the collaboration one of the festival’s most electronic rooms, not a rock stage, placing Reznor’s industrial material inside a tent better known for dance acts and big-volume production. (coachella.com, theverge.com) The set also landed days before the duo’s first album as Nine Inch Noize, which multiple music outlets reported is due April 17. (consequence.net, yahoo.com) Setlist reports from the April 11 show say the performance ran 11 songs, drawing from Nine Inch Nails staples while reworking them for the new project’s format. (setlist.fm) The first weekend of Coachella runs April 10 to April 12, and Nine Inch Noize is scheduled to return for the festival’s second weekend on April 18. (coachella.com, setlist.fm)