{"id":10343,"date":"2026-04-19T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/coachella-surprise-appearances\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:00:09","slug":"coachella-surprise-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/coachella-surprise-appearances\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella: O-Rod, SZA Among Saturday Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2024\/02\/2034727573-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1812\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Olivia Rodrigo at the GUTS tour opener on Feb. 23, 2024 (photo: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images for Acrisure Arena)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo, SZA, Billie Eilish and Kacey Musgraves were among the surprise guests yesterday (April 18) during the second weekend of the Coachella festival, adding further star power to a day already loaded with Justin Bieber, Addison Rae, SOMBR and PinkPantheress.<\/p>\n<p>Clad only in a pink bra top in jeans amid the nearly 90-degree California weather, Rodrigo offered the live debut of her brand new single, \u201cdrop dead,\u201d as part of Rae\u2019s main stage set and also sang a portion of the latter\u2019s hit \u201cHeadphones On.\u201d Rodrigo hadn\u2019t performed live since last November at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony; her new album, <em>you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love<\/em>, will arrive June 12 from Geffen.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/madonna-sabrina-carpenter-coachella\/\">Madonna Guests With Sabrina Carpenter At Coachella<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere\/\">Kacey Musgraves Sidesteps \u2018Reckless Men\u2019 On New Single<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/roth-is-a-verb-says-david-lee-roth-and-he-proved-it-in-his-coachella-cameo\/\">\u2018Roth\u2019 Is a Verb, Says David Lee Roth, and He Proved it in His Coachella Cameo<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SZA and Eilish both took the stage during Justin Bieber\u2019s headlining set, although SZA actually sang live while Eilish was there solely as a spectator. It appeared as if Eilish was actually nudged out from the wings unexpectedly for Bieber to sing \u201cOne Less Lonely Girl\u201d to her, parking herself on a stool and laughing throughout the moment.<\/p>\n<p>SZA joined the fun for an acoustic performance of \u201cSnooze,\u201d on which she originally teamed with Bieber following the 2022 release of her album <em>SOS<\/em>. The pair previously performed the song together at SZA and Kendrick Lamar\u2019s Sofi Stadium show in Los Angeles in May 2025. Throughout his 29-song set, Bieber also brought out Sexyy Red for \u201cSWEET SPOT,\u201d Big Sean for \u201cAs Long As You Love Me\u201d and \u201cNo Pressure\u201d and Dijon for \u201cDEVOTION.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musgraves\u2019 Saturday set had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere\/\">announced in advance<\/a>, but there will still plenty of surprises in the form of the live debuts of \u201cMiddle of Nowhere\u201d (the title track of her May 1 new album), \u201cUncertain, Tx.,\u201d and the tongue-in-cheek ode to recovering alcoholics, \u201cBack on the Wagon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, PinkPantheress was augmented during her Saturday set by Janelle Monae, Zara Larsson and KATSEYE\u2019s Manon. Coachella concludes today with KAROL G, Young Thug, Laufey, FKA twigs and Clipse, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Rodrigo at the GUTS tour opener on Feb. 23, 2024 (photo: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images for Acrisure Arena) Olivia Rodrigo, SZA, Billie Eilish and Kacey Musgraves were among&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5905,790,867,3509,6,1460,868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addison-rae","category-coachella","category-justin-bieber","category-kacey-musgraves","category-news","category-olivia-rodrigo","category-sza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}