Jeff Miller
View all posts by Jeff Miller April 10, 2026
INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 10: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (NOT TO BE LICENSED FOR ANY STANDALONE OR SPECIAL INTEREST BOOK PUBLISHING USE CONCERNING THE COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL AND/OR STAGECOACH MUSIC FESTIVAL) (L-R) David Lee Roth and Teddy Swims perform at the Coachella Stage during the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 10, 2026 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella) Getty Images for Coachella It was clear from the first ring of a doorbell from the Coachella stage that Teddy Swims got the memo: Make your set extra special, and it will be what the audience walks away talking about at the end of the night, even if you’re one of the early sets on the main stage. Swims’ stage production was made to look like a dynamic recreation of an apartment, complete with a bedroom, garage, living room, and yes, a front door: three songs in, that doorbell rang for the first time, and Swims brought Joe Jonas out to sing the country-flavored Jonas Brothers ballad “When You Look Me in the Eyes.”
It was really just the start, though, of an outstanding set that would have been stellar even without the slew of guests Swims welcomed. Swims’ songs themselves run the gamut from Foster the People-coded indie pop (the opener, “The Door”) to slow-burn ballads (“Bad Dreams”) to faux hard rock (“You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” — not the Judas Priest song, but a Swims original.)
That said, each time the doorbell did ring it meant the show was ramping up: A few songs after Jonas left the stage, the bell rang again and out emerged Vanessa Carlton, who played her resurgent Nineties smash “A Thousand Miles” to a sea of cell phones and lovelorn singing along.
