{"id":32628,"date":"2016-04-26T01:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=32628"},"modified":"2016-06-27T23:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T03:04:53","slug":"coachella-2016-my-music-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/coachella-2016-my-music-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella 2016: My Music Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the media coverage, you might think that everyone who goes to the Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif., cares more about fashion<\/a> than music. (Vanessa Friedman of the New York Times<\/a> — praising the way clothes serve the message in Beyonce’s new visual album Lemonade<\/em> — writes, “It is the anti-Coachella<\/a>: the opposite of a musical event leeched of meaning by branded commercial enterprises.”) But I can assure you that plenty of people besides me and my concert-going friend Jessie<\/a> were there for the music. Not parties. Not ribbon chokers and face paint. The music!<\/p>\n

The first Coachella weekend — our weekend — was April 15 to April 17. On Friday, my favorite acts were two singers I’d seen before. I’d liked the music of Christine and the Queens (the stage name of French performer H\u00e9lo\u00efse Letissier<\/a>)\u00a0 when I saw her open for Marina and the Diamonds in New York last November<\/a>, but I was situated very far away from the stage that night. Seeing her from the front row at Coachella made me love her.\u00a0 I didn’t get to appreciate her Michael Jackson-like dance moves and theatricality before.<\/p>\n

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Christine and the Queens.<\/p><\/div>\n

She also had mad stilt skills.<\/p>\n

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Christine on stilts, wearing a glitter suit.<\/p><\/div>\n

Coincidentally, the day after I saw Christine in November, I saw Ellie Goulding.\u00a0 At Coachella, I saw Ellie a few hours after Christine<\/a>. They go well together!<\/p>\n

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I didn’t take any photos of the duo Purity Ring<\/a> that night, but if you haven’t heard them, look them up! They were new to me and I liked them.<\/p>\n

The next day, my first priority was seeing the rap duo Run the Jewels on Coachella’s main stage.<\/p>\n

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Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels.<\/p><\/div>\n

Seeing Bernie Sanders introduce RTJ’s Killer Mike (a big Bernie supporter) and El-P via video was cool, but I was there to see my gorgeous rapper friend Gangsta Boo perform her verse on “Love Again.”<\/p>\n

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The highlight of my #coachella … Seeing my friend @missyeahoe on the big stage with #runthejewels … #video #yeahoe #loveagain #snatching #killer<\/a><\/p>\n

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