Live, in Photos: Coachella 2026 (Weekend One) with Turnstile, The xx, The Strokes, and More

Live, in Photos: Coachella 2026 (Weekend One) with Turnstile, The xx, The Strokes, and More

Nine Inch Noize, PinkPantheress, Geese, Ethel Cain, Jack White, Die Spitz, and much more from the 25th edition of the annual festival on the Empire Polo Club grounds.

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photo: Pooneh Ghana / Coachella / In Time Media

April 14, 2026

The annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival has taken on many different incarnations over its 27-year history. For those who experienced its early days, much of what it’s become today would feel almost unrecognizable. Pop music—and even hip-hop—was once scarce, as were the massive brand activations and influencer brigades often on-site for everything but the music. Yet it doesn’t take long scanning the 150-plus artists who performed across seven stages at this year’s edition to see that much of the festival’s core DNA is still there. Even in its 25th edition, that original spirit remains embedded in the lineup if you know where to look for it.

While headlines out of this year’s fest focused on Justin Bieber’s low-key, YouTube-karaoke headlining set and Sabrina Carpenter’s high-budget “Sabrinawood” spectacle, the weekend was also filled with inspired performances spanning generations and genres—from punk legends like Iggy Pop and Suicidal Tendencies, to ’90s electronic pioneers Moby and Groove Armada, to new wave icons Devo and David Byrne, to current indie and punk standouts like Geese, Wet Leg, and Turnstile—not to mention Jack White’s last-minute addition, marking his fifth time scorching a Coachella stage.

With such an expansive footprint and a dizzying number of performances, navigating it all can feel overwhelming—even from home via the Coachella livestream. Produced by LA-based creative team In Time Media, the festival’s photography crew includes some of the best live shooters in the world: Pooneh Ghana, Scott Hutchinson, Julian Basel, Greg Noire, Ashley Osborn, Jackie Lee Young, Muriel Knudson, Alden Bonecutter, Charles Reagan, Danielle Ernst, Gabriella Hughes, Karel Chladek, and more helped capture vivid moments from across the Empire Polo Club grounds over the weekend.

Take a look at visual highlights from Weekend One below, and stay tuned for more from the desert in the coming days.

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