Nine Inch Noize & Jack White
Saturday’s coverage of Coachella noted that Nine Inch Noize and Jack White were prominent parts of the Day 2 slate alongside headline acts. Live updates from the Los Angeles Times captured both acts as part of the festival’s broader performance mix. (latimes.com)
Nine Inch Noize and Jack White emerged as two of Coachella’s most talked-about Day 2 acts on Saturday, April 11, even with Justin Bieber topping the bill. (latimes.com) The Los Angeles Times’ live blog grouped both sets among the day’s standout moments from Indio, where the festival’s second day mixed arena-pop headliners with louder guitar and industrial acts. (latimes.com) Nine Inch Noize is a new collaboration between Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails and producer Alex Ridha, who records as Boys Noize. Yahoo’s report on the set said the booking stood out when Coachella first unveiled its 2026 lineup. (yahoo.com) The project played the Sahara tent at 8 p.m. on April 11 after being listed on setlist archives as originally scheduled for April 10. Setlist.fm logged the performance as a remix-heavy show built from Reznor’s catalog. (setlist.fm) Coverage outside the Times treated the set as more than a novelty booking. The Desert Sun gave Coachella Day 2 an A grade and said the festival’s rock acts, including Nine Inch Noize, were a major reason. (desertsun.com) Jack White’s set carried a different kind of intrigue because he was added to the lineup only days before the festival. The Orange County Register reported on April 11 that White had been added on Tuesday before delivering a Mojave tent set that night. (ocregister.com) Setlist archives show White played the Mojave stage on April 11 and ran through 11 songs, including “Lazaretto,” “Ball and Biscuit,” “Steady, as She Goes” and “Seven Nation Army.” (setlist.fm) That made Day 2 feel less like a single-headliner night and more like a broad survey of Coachella’s booking strategy in 2026: pop at the top, with legacy rock names and hybrid electronic projects filling out the most discussed undercard slots. (latimes.com)
