BOYS NOIZE RETURNED TO COACHELLA TWICE: AS NINE INCH NOIZE + BOYS NOIZE

BOYS NOIZE RETURNED TO COACHELLA TWICE: AS NINE INCH NOIZE + BOYS NOIZE SIGN UP TO HEAR NEW BOYS NOIZE MUSIC FIRST HERE NINE INCH NOIZE LIVE VIDEOS “CLOSER”, “HERESY” AND “AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE”

Boys Noize (Alex Ridha portrait) photo credit - Jas Davis Nine Inch Noize (performance) - Jas Davis Nine Inch Noize (performance close up) - John Crawford (download hi-res here) Coachella 2026 wasn’t just a return to the desert for BOYS NOIZE (Alex Ridha); it was an expansion. Orbiting in a different constellation, Ridha appeared as a solo artist and as part of the “instantly legendary” NINE INCH NOIZE, a collaboration with Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and live joined by Mariqueen Maandig. Together, they delivered a performance that blurred the lines between industrial, techno, and pure physical art force - less a set, more a system overload. NINE INCH NOIZE builds on a few years of collaboration between Nine Inch Nails and Alex Ridha, including their work on the Challengers soundtrack, TRON: Ares soundtrack, the GRAMMY-winning track “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” and the Peel It Back tour. At Coachella, that chemistry reached a new scale: a top-billed moment where structure dissolved into intensity, and genre distinctions stopped mattering entirely. The collaborative album NINE INCH NOIZE was released on Friday, April 17. There’s something quietly iconic about the BOYS NOIZE timeline. A signal that’s been looping for years, now hitting a new clarity in the desert. He first appeared at Coachella in 2008, returned in 2011, and in 2026, stepped back in for a third time, but not just as a repeat, more like a continuation: same frequency, different bandwidth. During BOYS NOIZE’s set, the Yuma tent became a pressure chamber. Low ceilings, locked-in bodies, no excess. Somewhere in that flow, it’s likely new productions surfaced - IDs that didn’t announce themselves, just arrived. Tracks that felt unfamiliar but inevitable, testing, reshaping, and introducing what’s next in real time. ABOUT BOYS NOIZE: German-Iraqi DJ and producer Boys Noize (Alex Ridha) is a singular figure in 21st-century electronic music culture: a legend perennially in the vanguard, a cross-genre bridge-builder who remains a favorite of techno purists, and a global headliner who has never turned his back on the underground. He's a focused DJ, an expansive producer, and a master of both, tapped by figures like Trent Reznor, A$AP Rocky, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Arca, Virgil Abloh, Chilly Gonzales, and even Lady Gaga to bring his subterranean edge and distinctive sonics to productions. Boys Noize's expert, exhilarating synthesis of techno, house, and electro, with precise arrangements and inimitable sonics, is best discovered through his solo work. He's remixed Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, A.G. Cook, and Solomun, earned a GRAMMY nomination with long-time collaborator Skrillex, and featured on tracks alongside Keinemusik, Shygirl, Kelsey Lu, Rico Nasty, and VTSS. From clubs to stages to stadiums, Ridha has continued to support the underground through his labels Boysnoize Records and the newly launched ONES and ZEROS, focusing on rising global talent. A punk ethos has kept him independent, raw talent keeps him in-demand, and obsession keeps him future-proof. No other artist moves between rap and techno, pop and industrial like Boys Noize, and yet his formula is simple: embrace everything, compromise nothing. SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY: 2007 OI OI OI (LP) 2009 POWER (LP) 2012 OUT OF THE BLACK (LP) 2015 STRICTLY RAW VOL 1 (LP) 2016 MAYDAY (LP) 2018 STRICTLY RAW VOL 2 (LP) 2019 DOG BLOOD (w/Skrillex) TURN OF THE LIGHTS (EP) 2021 +/- (LP) 2024 CHALLENGERS OST (LP) (Mixed by Boys Noize) 2025 BOYS NOIZE PRESENTS: ONES AND ZEROS (Compilation) 2025 NINE INCH NAILS - TRON: ARES OST (co-prod by Boys Noize) 2026 NINE INCH NOIZE (LP) BOYS NOIZE PRODUCTIONS - Complete Spotify Playlist (88 Tracks) BOYS NOIZE ON TOUR: APRIL 25 - MIAMI, FL @ TIME WARP MIAMI MAY 16 - LAS VEGAS, NV @ EDC MAY 22 - BOGOTA, COL @ BAUM FESTIVAL MAY 25 - DETROIT, MI @ MOVEMENT FESTIVAL  JUNE 13 - MANCHESTER, TN @ BONNAROO JUNE 18 - BARCELONA, ES @ SONAR JUNE 19 - NEUHAUSEN OB ECK, DE @ SOUTHSIDE FESTIVAL JUNE 21 - SCHEEßEL, DE @ HURRICANE FESTIVAL JUNE 27 - DOUAI, FR @ PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL JULY 05 - TURIN, IT @ KAPPA FUTUR FESTIVA JULY 09 - MADRID, ES @ MAD COOL JULY 10 - PLOCK, PL @ AUDIORIVER JULY 11 - PARIS, FR @ PEACOCK SOCIETY JULY 15 - DOUR, BE @ DOUR FESTIVAL F2F JULY 18 - DOUR, BE @ DOUR FESTIVAL JULY 19 - BERLIN, DE @ LOLLAPALOOZA JULY 30 - CHICAGO, IL @ LOLLAPALOOZA JULY 31 - TORONTO, CAN @ VELD FESTIVAL AUGUST 01 - NEW YORK, NY @ UNDER THE K BRIDGE AUGUST 08 - LONG POND, PA @ ELEMENTS AUGUST 09 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ OUTSIDE LANDS AUGUST 13 - BUDAPEST, HU @ SZIGET FESTIVAL AUGUST 22 - BIDDINGHUIZEN, NL @ LOWLANDS FESTIVAL https://www.boysnoize.com/ https://onesandzeros.com/ https://boysnoizerecords.com/ https://instagram.com/boysnoize https://facebook.com/boysnoize https://www.tiktok.com/@boysnoize https://x.com/boysnoize https://www.youtube.com/user/boysnoize https://soundcloud.com/boysnoize https://www.discogs.com/artist/243374-Boys-Noize