The best, worst and Hootiest moments of Stagecoach Day 3

On Day 3 of Stagecoach, the Empire Polo Club successful Indio was primed for 1 much large Western outing earlier the festival rode disconnected into the sunset.

After Saturday’s excitement with the festival evacuating attendees owed to wind, things were inactive rocking earlier the gates adjacent opened — though it was mostly caused by Mother Nature. The greeting started with a rumble erstwhile a magnitude 3.4 earthquake deed 10 miles from Cabazon astatine 8:44 a.m.

As for the music, determination were plentifulness of large moments worthy making it retired for the festival’s last day. Sunday nighttime brought america a Post Malone headlining set, much ‘90s nostalgia courtesy of Hootie & the Blowfish and peculiar impermanent Public Enemy and the astir celebrated cameo we saw that time — the aged Arby’s motion from Sunset Boulevard.

Check retired our recap of everything we saw connected Day 3 of Stagecoach.

Shaboozey joins the assemblage arsenic they vibe to beats during Diplo’s acceptable featuring Theo Von, B2B, Caleb Pressley, Sydney Sweeney and others connected the 2nd time of Stagecoach.

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Getting tipsy successful Shaboozey’s pop-up saloon

Stagecoach has ever been afloat of branded pop-ups — good earlier the corporations invaded Coachella — but this twelvemonth was each astir the personage bar.

Sydney Sweeney had a pop-up barroom connected the festival grounds for her Syrn lingerie enactment that offered karaoke, magnetic darts, and, of course, booze, adjacent different marque booths specified arsenic Arby’s and Alaska Airlines.

Shaboozey’s pop-up saloon took a small much enactment to find. Tucked into the 12 Peaks area, which is wide admittance during Stagecoach — it’s VIP-only during Coachella — Cherie Lee’s is built to look similar an aged West saloon connected the outside. You cognize you’re successful the close spot erstwhile you find an old-timey “Wanted” poster with the representation of the “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” vocalist retired front. You locomotion down a dimly lit hallway (honestly, it gave Disneyland Big Thunder Mountain enactment vibes), and done swinging saloon doors into a cozy room.

They were giving retired achromatic bandannas with a drafting of Cherie Lee’s saloon emblazoned with Shaboozey “The Outlaw Cherie Lee,” the sanction of his forthcoming conception album.

There’s a tag connected the bandanna that allows you to springiness them your accusation successful bid to perceive immoderate of the caller music.

Like Sweeney’s pop-up, this saloon isn’t wholly for amusement — determination are selected premixed cocktails available. And erstwhile I was there, determination was idiosyncratic dressed successful old-timey garb playing a banjo. (Vanessa Franko)

Crowds stitchery astir a repurposed Arby’s motion from the erstwhile edifice connected Sunset Boulevard successful Hollywood connected Friday.

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We recovered the iconic Arby’s motion from Sunset Boulevard

At Stagecoach, the 1 burning question this full play has been this iconic motion that radical are passing by connected the polo fields — is it the archetypal neon cowboy chapeau from the Sunset Boulevard Arby’s?

Local Arby’s franchisee Roger Amaya tells america it is! “We were reasoning astir the iconic motion that was going to get torn down. Our CEO, Amir Siddiqi, was capable to grasp it,” Amaya said. “As you tin see, everyone’s loving it. Everyone’s getting a photograph op lasting successful beforehand of it.” As a bonus, the iconic motion appears to beryllium successful large shape.

“We were capable to get our neon motion feline named James to reconstruct the full sign,” Amaya said. After Stagecoach, wherever is the cowboy chapeau motion going next? “That is the large question,” Amaya said. “So you got to enactment tuned.” (Mikael Wood)

Third Eye Blind pb vocalist and guitarist Stephan Jenkins performs connected the Mustang Stage astatine Stagecoach connected Sunday.

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Third Eye Blind wins the conflict of the ‘90s sunset acts

Between Counting Crows, Bush and Third Eye Blind, each ‘90s alt artists booked for the sunset acceptable connected the Mustang Stage passim Stagecoach 2026, the second drew the biggest assemblage connected Sunday evening with a premix of hits that deed the champion of the band’s archetypal 2 records.

“Never Let You Go,” “Graduate” and “Jumper” were highlights aboriginal successful the acceptable earlier closing with “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Gonna Be.”

“Thank you for loving us,” vocalist Stephan Jenkins said. “We didn’t cognize however this was gonna go.”

He request not person worried. (V.F.)

Ronnie Dunn, right, and Kix Brooks, of Brooks & Dunn, execute connected the Mane Stage during the last time of Stagecoach.

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Brooks & Dunn bring a reminder of Stagecoach’s roots

However pop-minded Stagecoach has go successful the past 5 to 10 years, the festival inactive holds down its centrist-country roots, arsenic Brooks & Dunn showed Sunday nighttime with a rowdy yet polished main-stage show that featured plentifulness of the duo’s down-the-middle hits — “Brand New Man,” “Red Dirt Road,” “Neon Moon” — and concluded with a rendition of “Only successful America” that had the 2 seasoned musicians positioned earlier a enactment of arrogant constabulary officers. (M.W.)

Hootie & the Blowfish pb vocalist and guitarist Darius Rucker performs connected the Mustang Stage astatine Stagecoach connected Sunday.

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Hootie & the Blowfish person a governmental infinitesimal astatine Stagecoach with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Flavor Flav

Hootie & the Blowfish is known for a bully time. The band’s pop-rock hits are infectious. Singer Darius Rucker recovered fame with a solo state vocation and has played Stagecoach before. On Sunday night, the set played its biggest hits, including “Hold My Hand,” “Time” and “Let Her Cry,” but they besides made a governmental statement.

Notable moments of the acceptable included a rollicking mentation of “Wagon Wheel” that had the assemblage singing and dancing along, covers of REM’s “Losing My Religion” and Led Zeppelin’s “Hey Hey What Can I Do” and the monolithic Hootie deed “Only Wanna Be With You” with a funk interruption for a mid-song screen of Kool & the Gang’s “Get Down On It.”

But the item of the show was the end. The set closed its acceptable with a screen of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” earlier bringing retired Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Flavor Flav to articulation them and besides to execute “Fight the Power.”

It seemed alternatively poignant to person the infinitesimal astatine the conservative-leaning Stagecoach, a festival wherever organizers had to prohibition Confederate emblem cogwheel a fewer years back, but hopefully the infinitesimal wasn’t mislaid connected the partying masses. “With everything going connected successful the satellite these days, I deliberation it’s a bully spot for the song,” Rucker told The Times anterior to his band’s performance. (V.F.)

Fans cheer astatine Stagecoach.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Post Malone closes Stagecoach with benignant if not excitement

Almost precisely a twelvemonth aft helium closed retired Coachella successful 2025, Post Malone returned to the Empire Polo Club precocious Sunday to header the last nighttime of Stagecoach.

“Who’s f— thirsty this evening, ladies and gentlemen?” helium asked not agelong into the amusement — Malone’s mode of introducing his opus “Pour Me a Drink,” for which helium opened a tin of his beloved Bud Light by smashing it against his head.

Stylistically, Malone’s 90-minute acceptable was successful enactment with the shows he’s been playing since helium dropped his archetypal authoritative state album, “F-1 Trillion,” successful 2024; the dependable was high-gloss Nashville-alia purveyed by a ace radical of players, including fiddlers and inheritance singers. (M.W.)