{"id":378177,"date":"2026-04-14T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:02:10","slug":"inside-the-wildest-music-fest-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378177\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the wildest music fest of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0first weekend of Coachella 2026 kicked off<\/a>\u00a0in Indio, California, this past weekend, and it was the place to see or be seen.<\/p>\n

Although the oft-dubbed \u201cQueen of Coachella,\u201d Vanessa Hudgens, wasn\u2019t in attendance, the annual party had no shortage of celebrities enjoying the wildest music fest of the year.<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian and her new beau, Lewis Hamilton, were\u00a0spotted getting close<\/a>\u00a0during\u00a0Justin Bieber\u2019s highly anticipated headlining set on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton (pictured here) were\u00a0spotted at Coachella 2026 on Saturday night. The Daily Stardust \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

The Skims founder and Formula One driver dressed casually for Justin Bieber\u2019s headlining set. The Daily Stardust \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

The Skims co-founder, 45, rocked a black bodysuit with black leather pants \u2014 and topped off the look with a scarf wrapped around her face.<\/p>\n

Like Kardashian, the Formula One driver, 41, comically failed trying to go undercover with a bandana over his mouth.<\/p>\n

When not attending fancy black-tie events, Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau can also be seen rocking out at Coachella.<\/p>\n

The couple,\u00a0who have been\u00a0linked since July 2025, were front row for the \u201cSwag\u201d pop star\u2019s\u00a0divisive and lazy Coachella set<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bieber (pictured here) divided fans with his highly anticipated Coachella set. Cochella\/YouTube<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God he has premium,\u201d Katy Perry quipped as Bieber played YouTube videos of his earlier song. \u201cI don\u2019t want to see no ads.\u201d Cochella\/YouTube<\/p>\n

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Bieber came under fire for sitting on a stool and scrolling through YouTube videos of his earlier songs on a laptop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God he has premium,\u201d Perry quipped on social media. \u201cI don\u2019t want to see no ads.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Canadian prime minister, meanwhile, kept it way casual in a backwards baseball cap.<\/p>\n

Beyond catching what many fans dubbed \u201cBiebchella,\u201d the power couple explored the Empire Polo Club grounds as they held\u00a0hands and snacked<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0between sets.<\/p>\n

Perry and Justin Trudeau (pictured here) were also spotted rocking out at Coachella 2026. Katy Perry\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The power couple explored the Empire Polo Club grounds and snacked\u00a0in\u00a0between performances. Katy Perry\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The resigned PM was even\u00a0caught drinking from a red plastic cup<\/a>\u00a0with Perry during their revelry. He banned such single-use plastics in Canada in 2022.<\/p>\n

Of course, Hailey Bieber was there\u00a0supporting her pop star husband<\/a>\u00a0for his first major headlining set in nearly five years.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old model and Rhode beauty brand founder donned a cute cropped\u00a0\u201cFuture Mrs. Bieber\u201d tee\u00a0from Justin\u2019s Skylrk label.<\/p>\n

Hailey showed off the see-through shirt, which she paired with a yellow-and-blue bikini, in a series of cheeky\u00a0pics\u00a0on Instagram ahead of the \u201cBaby\u201d singer\u2019s set.<\/p>\n

Hailey Bieber (pictured here) supported her husband by wearing a \u201cFuture Mrs. Bieber\u201d tee. Instagram\/@haileybieber<\/p>\n

Hailey and Kylie Jenner (seen here) were later spotted enjoying themselves during the \u201cBaby\u201d singer\u2019s set. Instagram\/@kyliejenner<\/p>\n

The Coachella fun wasn\u2019t limited to just the festival-goers partying\u00a0down on the SoCal grounds. The weekend\u2019s headliners made sure to live it up on the main stage on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Karol G, who closed out Weekend 1, brought a powerful and overdue set that included her hits like \u201cProvenza,\u201d \u201cTQG\u201d and \u201cMamiii.\u201d<\/p>\n

Real name Carolina Giraldo Navarro, Karol G became the first Latina artist in history to grace the Coachella stage when she kicked off her performance Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels late,\u201d the Colombian superstar said onstage. \u201cIt\u2019s been 27 years of this festival going on \u2026 Before me, there were so many great Latino artists that gave me the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karol G (pictured here) closed out the first weekend of Coachella on Sunday night with a powerful set of her hits. Getty Images for Coachella<\/p>\n

Sabrina Carpenter (seen here) treated fans to a 90-minute Hollywood-themed set during her headlining spot on Friday night. Coachella\/Youtube<\/p>\n

Other highlights included Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s headlining set. The \u201cPlease Please Please\u201d singer\u2019s theatrical, 90-minute Hollywood-themed set featured an elaborate design and surprise\u00a0celeb\u00a0cameos from Susan Sarandon and Will Ferrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, it was\u00a0overshadowed by an awkward back-and-forth<\/a>\u00a0with a superfan in the audience, whom the \u201cEspresso\u201d singer called \u201cweird\u201d for\u00a0\u201cyodelling\u201d\u00a0at her mid-show.<\/p>\n

Carpenter later apologized when it was revealed the attendee wasn\u2019t\u00a0\u201cyodelling\u201d\u00a0but\u00a0making a celebratory Arabic yell<\/a>\u00a0called a zaghrouta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0first weekend of Coachella 2026 kicked off\u00a0in Indio, California, this past weekend, and it was the place to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,25766,156,6055,2980,26483,12867,17364,3513,157,111,139,69,3569],"class_list":{"0":"post-378177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-coachella","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hailey-bieber","12":"tag-justin-bieber","13":"tag-justin-trudeau","14":"tag-katy-perry","15":"tag-kim-kardashian","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378177","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=378177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}