{"id":374283,"date":"2026-04-11T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:20:12","slug":"watch-sabrina-carpenter-headline-the-first-night-of-coachella-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374283\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sabrina Carpenter Headline the First Night of Coachella 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> headlined the 2026 edition of Coachella<\/a> on Friday, returning to Indio one year after her 2025 desert-stealing performance. In a recent interview with Perfect<\/a>, Carpenter called this year\u2019s show \u201cthe most ambitious\u2026I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d You can watch clips of it and read the full set list below.<\/p>\n

Carpenter opened with a short film starring herself as a speeding motorist pulled over by a cop played by Sam Elliott and Sam Elliott\u2019s mustache. From there, she went right into \u201cHouse Tour\u201d\u2014 which recently received its own music video<\/a> starring Carpenter, Madelyn Cline, and Margaret Qualley as a trio of cat burglars\u2014then \u201cTaste\u201d and \u201cBusy Woman.\u201d Later, dancers dressed as poodles<\/a> appeared, as did Susan Sarandon playing an older version of Carpenter, Will Ferrell playing a bumbling electrician<\/a>, Carpenter\u2019s Girl Meets World co-star Corey Fogelmanis playing a waiter, and the voice of Samuel L. Jackson.<\/p>\n

Carpenter\u2019s latest album, Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/a>, arrived last September, following 2024\u2019s Short & Sweet<\/a>. Man\u2019s Best Friend spawned a series of glitzy, plot-heavy videos for \u201cTears<\/a>\u201d and \u201cManchild<\/a>.\u201d The latter single earned her a nomination at the 2026 Grammys, where she also performed it<\/a> in character as a 1960s flight attendant.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Justin Bieber<\/a> will headline Coachella\u2019s main stage, while Karol G<\/a> will close out Sunday night, becoming the first Latina to headline the festival.<\/p>\n

Follow along with all of Pitchfork\u2019s coverage of Coachella 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter headlined the 2026 edition of Coachella on Friday, returning to Indio one year after her 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[195271,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-374283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-coachella2026","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374283","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=374283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}