{"id":374093,"date":"2026-04-11T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:20:07","slug":"coachella-2026-live-updates-sabrina-carpenters-desert-takeover-katseye-x-kpop-demon-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374093\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella 2026 Live Updates: Sabrina Carpenter&#8217;s desert takeover; Katseye x &#8216;KPop Demon Hunters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Coachella kicks off its 25th year, our team of reporters, photographers and editors are on the ground at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Since you\u2019ll be hearing from us a lot this weekend, here\u2019s a little bit about who we\u2019re excited to see. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding out whether I\u2019m the youngest person or the oldest person in the audience for the Strokes.\u201d \u2014 Mikael Wood, whose first Coachella was 2005<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding out whether I\u2019m the youngest person or the oldest person in the audience for Katseye.\u201d \u2014 David Viramontes, who is attending his second Coachella<\/p>\n<p> \u201cNine Inch Noize in the Sahara \u2014 the old goths will be camped out all day, obviously, but do the raver zoomers know what kind of violence they\u2019re in for later?\u201d \u2014 August Brown, who first Coachella\u2019d in 2006 \u2014 the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/la-et-ms-coachella-timeline-20190409-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daft Punk pyramid<\/a> year<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a Sunday night catharsis at The Rapture set yelling \u2018HOUSE OF! JEALOUS LOVERS!\u2019 and remembering the best of the indie sleaze era.\u201d  \u2014 Vanessa Franko, whose first Coachella was 2007 and is celebrating her 18th year and 27th weekend of covering the fest<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing if I can successfully stay awake for Blood Orange\u2019s super late set.\u201d\u2014 Danielle Dorsey, whose first Coachella was in 2010 and will hopefully catch Blood Orange at 11:55 p.m. Friday night<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited to see Dijon and seeing some of my favorite artists in three days.\u201d \u2014 Kayla Bartkowski, who is attending her first Coachella<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very much looking forward to the White Claw and Starbucks tents as well as standing in the heat for as long as it takes to get Radiohead merchandise while telling my editor I am working but the internet is slow so my videos will come through eventually.\u201d \u2014 Mark Potts, The Times\u2019 senior editor for video who is attending his first Coachella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Coachella kicks off its 25th year, our team of reporters, photographers and editors are on the ground&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2991,195168,25766,5972,195166,32896,156,5131,157,111,139,195169,69,195167,13636,6448,3569,416,4767,173786],"class_list":{"0":"post-374093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-audience","9":"tag-blood-orange","10":"tag-coachella","11":"tag-day","12":"tag-desert-takeover","13":"tag-editor","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-festival","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nine-inch-noize","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-old-person","22":"tag-photographer","23":"tag-reporter","24":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","25":"tag-video","26":"tag-weekend","27":"tag-young-person"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}