RAYE Turns Her Set Into a Cathartic Group Therapy Session.The issue may have affected the energy in the tent, but most everyone still stuck around to see how it would end. - K.B. But yes, it will continue.” And it did, with the producer staying cheerful despite the issue and amping up the heavy electronic vibes until stopping the show again, then starting it again, then stopping it again and then starting it once more. There has never been a Grimes show without a major technical difficulty. The sound was heavy and industrial electronic music, with the visuals on the tent’s massive screens featuring animated figures that were hybrids between fairies and vixens.īut at about 30 minutes into the show, she stopped the music entirely, announcing that “this s- always f-ing happens, all my tracks are twice as fast so I’m not mixing very well, so I’m going to keep trying, and I appreciate you being here. Playing in the newly expanded Sahara Tent, Grimes cut a striking figure as she crouched on top of the decks with an ornate mask on and her long, blonde hair blowing in the desert wind.

Ice Spice Debuts a New Song, Shouts Out Taylor.Read our full No Doubt performance recap here. Rodrigo has had quite a streak recently of paying homage to her heroes, from Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette to Jewel and the Breeders, and this latest stop on her appreciation tour couldn’t have been a better fit. Stefani even summoned her fellow singer/songwriter over at the end of the song by calling, “Come here, my little Vampire!” “…the bad boys!” Rodrigo finished with a theatrical flourish. The two were playful throughout the song, with Stefani saying ahead of the bridge, “Olivia Rodrigo, why do the good girls, like me and you, always want…” Fast-forward three years, and Rodrigo - wearing a cropped white tank top that read “I ND” - popped up on the Coachella stage for a surprise duet on the Return of Saturn single, trading verses and sharing the chorus with Gwen Stefani.

When Olivia Rodrigo was tasked with choosing her “18 favorite songs” to celebrate her 18th birthday back in 2021, No Doubt’s “Bathwater” made the cut.

Billie Eilish Throws a Listening Party at Do Lab.

The strange juxtaposition of the blond heiress and a man cosplaying as the 16th president of the United States was certainly unexpected, and a welcome dose of weird at a set that could easily have been a run-of-the-mill performance of Vampire Weekend’s greatest hits.

As quickly as Hilton appeared, she was gone – only to be replaced by a man dressed as Abraham Lincoln, who himself played a short round of cornhole before making his exit. Vampire Weekend’s set started off conventionally enough, with the band (a late addition to the festival) delivering a tight, lively performance of songs like “Cousins,” “Unbelievers” and “A-Punk.” As they did at an Austin show celebrating the solar eclipse earlier this month, they ended the set with a prolonged “Cocaine Cowboys” jam that included parts of their own “Married in a Gold Rush,” Larry Gatlin’s “All the Gold in California,” Gram Parsons’ “Sin City” and the Grateful Dead’s “Cumberland Blues.” And then, during this final stretch, who should appear but Paris Hilton, who played a round of cornhole during her brief time onstage (“Do you mind if I cheat?” the reality star-turned-DJ joked before dropping a bean bag directly into the hole). The night also included its share of buzzy moments, like the surprise appearance of Billie Eilish at the festival’s Do Lab stage, where she played fans some snippets of forthcoming new racks Olivia Rodrigo, who duetted with No Doubt and dressed as an early ’90s version of Gwen Stefani and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce spotted side stage for Bleachers, the group from Swift’s frequent producer Jack Antonoff, as well as in the crowd for her collaborator Ice Spice. On Day 2, the masses gathered to see a dizzying number of artists, including the night’s headliner Tyler, The Creator, a reunited and exceptionally fun No Doubt, Blur, Vampire Weekend - who, to the delight and slight bewilderment of the crowd brought out Paris Hilton to play bag toss onstage during their set - and many others. If the energy on the first day of Coachella 2024 felt quiet, Saturday (April 14) came in literally and figuratively hot with daytime temperatures in the mid-90s, a lot of giddy enthusiasm and what felt like and looked like a larger crowd.

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