Art Colors the Field
The Coachella music festival, held on the Empire Polo Grounds, doubles as a giant art show featuring sculptures made of various materials. Read THR's reviews here, here and here.
The Coachella music festival, held on the Empire Polo Grounds, doubles as a giant art show featuring sculptures made of various materials. Read THR's reviews here, here and here.
The festival's stunning backdrop makes Coachella one of the most scenic musical gatherings in America.
As the festival has grown, so has the age range. In 2013, attendees included plenty of parents and their children.
Eli Roth, Lorenza Izzo and Joyann King cooled down at the Harper's BAZAAR Poolside Fete held at the Parker Palm Springs.
A year after an EDM-heavy lineup, the 2013 edition of Coachella opted for guitar bands, including folk-rockers The Lumineers and Rodriguez, indie rock statesmen Phoenix and Tegan & Sara and British headliners Blur and The Stone Roses.
Justin Vernon, of Bon Iver fame, performed twice at Coachella — as a special guest during Polica's set (he's featured on the Minneapolis band's latest single, "Tiff") and fronting his latest project, The Shouting Matches.
A shot of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra's set list, taped down to the main stage for the band's Friday performance.
Among the fest's most anticipated appearances was 2 Chainz's Saturday afternoon set in the Mojave tent.
A packed Sahara tent grooves to a performance by Excision presents the Executioner on night 3 of the festival.
Members of the Airborne Toxic Event show off swag they scored at the LACOSTE L!VE Desert Pool Party in Thermal, California.
British TV personality and model Alexa Chung DJs at the LACOSTE L!VE pool party.
Blur frontman Damon Albarn delivered the hits during the British band's Friday night slot. Read THR's review here.
A slew of celebrities made their way to Indio for Coachella and were spotted taking in music from the field. Among them: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Kate Bosworth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alexander Skarsgård Carmen Electra (pictured) and Paris Hilton.
Coachella regular Danny DeVito poses with fellow actor Melanie Griffith on day 2 of the festival.
Musicians Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards of Deap Vally pose in a backstage photo tent on day 3 of the festival.
Producer Diplo of Major Lazer takes a cue from Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne by bringing out the crowd-surfing bubble during his band's Saturday evening set at the Sahara tent.
Celebrating its ninth year at Coachella, L.A.-based the Do LaB, a company specializing in interactive environments, puts on another colorful performance.
Actor Elijah Wood, wearing a Lacoste shirt and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, DJs at the LACOSTE L!VE pool party on April 14.
Ian MacKaye, of seminal punk band Minor Threat, and Flea, bassist for Sunday headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers, hang backstage on day 3 of the festival.
Janelle Monae helped close down the Gobi tent on night 2 with a high-energy soulful set.
Pop star and longtime Coachella devotee Katy Perry looks Palm Springs perfect at the LACOSTE L!VE party on April 13.
Girl power was alive and well at Coachella 2013. Among the female-fronted acts that impressed: La Roux (pictured), How to Destroy Angels, Polica and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Grammy-nominated folk-rockers The Lumineers scored a Saturday afternoon set on the Main stage. Pictured: band members Jeremiah Fraites (left) and Wesley Schultz.
Method Man performed with the reunited Wu-Tang Clan. The rap collective headlined the Outdoor Theater on Sunday night.
The EDM-pioneering Moby took the Sahara Tent stage for a DJ set on Saturday night. He later tweeted an Instagram image of the crowd, writing, "Me and my 35,000 new best friends."
Two of the three Jonas Brothers, Joe (left) and Nick, attended the LACOSTE L!VE pool party on April 13 in Thermal, California.
Thomas Mars, frontman of Phoenix, spent some of his band's Saturday night set among the crowd, making his way to a rafter, then crowd-surfing back to the stage with microphone in hand.
Among the most awaited reunions was that if Ben Gibbard and DNTEL, the twosome who make up The Postal Service. Playing songs from their sole album, 2003's Give Up, the band was joined by collaborator Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley fame.
Concert-goers expected some sort of surprise during Coachella — an unannounced appearance by Daft Punk was highly rumored — but the appearance of R. Kelly during Phoenix's triumphant Saturday night set blew minds. The R&B singer joined the French rockers for a remix of his hit "Ignition."
Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers performed Coachella for the third time.
Rita Ora, whose 2012 hit song "How We Do (Party)" reached No. 1 in the U.K., chilled at the LACOSTE-sponsored pool party.
Mike Ness leads SoCal's favorite sons Social Distortion during the band's Sunday evening main stage set.
Ian Brown of the Stone Roses, who headlined the fest's first night, provided much of the band's jangly percussion.
Todd Fink of The Faint took the Mojave tent stage on Sunday night.
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend debuted new, vocoder-enhanced cuts from the band's forthcoming album, Modern Vampires of the City.
Wu-Tang Clan fans packed the Outdoor Theater for the group's Sunday Night set.
Long a hotbed for emerging hip-hop acts, members of Wu-Tang Clan showed the Coachella crowd — and fellow rappers — how it's done.
Romy Madley Croft, one-third of beloved British outfit the xx, brought the band's moody, hushed sound to the main stage on Saturday night.
Brooklyn's Yeasayer presented its own brand of psychedelic-pop to the Outdoor Theater on night two of the fest.