Jeff Miller
View all posts by Jeff Miller April 12, 2026
(L-R) Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor, and Boys Noize of Nine Inch Noize perform at the 2026 Coachella on April 11, 2026. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella The first full set by Nine Inch Noize capitalized on and expanded the mini-set the artists performed together nightly on the past year’s super successful Peel It Back tour at Coachella. They soaked the ready-for-it audience in the Sahara tent with broody, anxiety-laden beats and angst-filled singing that found the older millenial Coachella crowd finding both nostalgia and catharsis at once.
A surprise Nine Inch Noize album is coming next week, and the short 45 minute set gave a preview of what to expect. The set opened with a remix of Nails’ 2007 deep cut “Vessel” with Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig singing next to each other in the back of a tunnel cut out of a grey foam mountain-looking stage, which served as the backdrop for a production-heavy set that included a dozen dancers clad in gray bodysuits that unnervingly made them blend into the stage when they were not writhing in unison.
