{"id":263715,"date":"2026-04-12T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:48:24","slug":"coachella-2026-sombr-brings-out-billy-corgan-of-the-smashing-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263715\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella 2026: Sombr brings out Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aside from headlining the main stage, a sunset set at the Outdoor Theatre is one of the most coveted time slots at the festival. If you get it, there\u2019s a built-in Coachella moment ready for the taking.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Sombr delivered<\/a> with a performance that drew so many fans that they were stretching to the outer edges of the field where the sound bleed from the main stage carried over.<\/p>\n

Shane Boose appeared on stage in a studded leather jacket \u2014 bedazzled with a \u201c77\u201d on the back \u2014 over a see-thru lacy top and leather pants, his fist pumped in the air atop a riser, an arena-ready pose as the set kicked off with \u201cHomewrecker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans jumped and sang along to \u201cWe Never Dated,\u201d \u201cCome Closer\u201d and a rousing \u201cI Wish I Knew How to Quit You\u201d in the first half of the set and were excited to hear the live debut of new song \u201cPotential.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sombr performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n

(Kayla Bartkowski\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

The performance happened on a day when Coachella has a notable number of rockers \u2014 Jack White kicked things off in the Mojave Tent<\/a> in a set announced earlier this week and there was much excitement for the Strokes on the Coachella stage Saturday night before headliner Justin Bieber. <\/p>\n

But one of the moments that simultaneously proved that rock never died and it\u2019s on the rise was when Sombr brought out a special guest, who Boose said was making his first visit to the festival. Billy Corgan<\/a> of Smashing Pumpkins came out to join in on a cover of his band\u2019s mid-\u201990s alt-rock hit \u201c1979,\u201d which was more recently trending audio on TikTok and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aside from headlining the main stage, a sunset set at the Outdoor Theatre is one of the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[115655,21495,1404,113053,48,52,51,47,50,49,112673,37496,115660,115659,115658,1406,115657,115656,30403,25580,115654],"class_list":{"0":"post-263715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-billy-corgan","9":"tag-coachella","10":"tag-festival","11":"tag-jack-white","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-main-stage","19":"tag-many-fan","20":"tag-mojave-tent","21":"tag-new-song","22":"tag-notable-number","23":"tag-performance","24":"tag-rocker","25":"tag-shane-boose","26":"tag-smashing-pumpkins","27":"tag-sombr","28":"tag-sunset-set"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}