Photos: Day One: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
LCD Soundsytem performs at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)James Murphy, lead singer for the American rock band LCD Soundsystem, performs at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee performs on the Sahara stage at Coachella.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee performs on the Sahara stage at Coachella.
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Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee performs on the Sahara stage at Coachella.
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Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jimmy performs on the Sahara stage at Coachella.
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People dance to electronic music in a room at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Music fans are awash in points of light as British singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding performs at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)The artist Dela works on a piece at the DoLaB tent at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)It’s dance time at the DoLaB tent at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)People listen to electronic music in a dance room at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Performers at the DoLaB at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)DJ Mustard at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Kiesza performs a song with Jack U at the beginning of their show at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Jack U performs at Coachella on Friday night.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Fans watch Jack U perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Kiesza performs a song with Jack U at the beginning of their show at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Underworld’s Karl Hyde on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Savages singer Jehnny Beth, left, and drummer Fay Milton, right, on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Savages singer Jehnny Beth onstage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Savages bassist Ayse Hassan onstage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)An Underworld stagehand holds a bank of red light during the band’s show at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A security guard keeps watch as Underworld performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Underworld’s Karl Hyde onstage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Fans enjoy Underworld’s Karl Hyde onstage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Savages singer Jehnny Beth wades into the crowd at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Face painting at Coachella Arts Festival.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Dusk settles in on the first day of Coachella 2016.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Sufjan Stevens performs at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Face paint at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Sufjan Stevens performs at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Sufjan Stevens, center, performs at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Alison Mosshart of the Kills battles strong winds on day one of Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)A woman dances with a lighted spinning umbrella during a performance by British singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)A line of people snakes into a beer garden at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)British singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)British singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)British singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Benjamin Plant of the Australian indie rock band Miami Horror peforms at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)The theater group Bijoulette Airlines performs on the grounds of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Naomi Diaz on stage.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Fans enjoy Mavis Staples on the Gobi stage at the Coachella on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Lisa-Kainde Diaz, a member of the French-Cuban duo Ibeyi, performs.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Smoke surrounds John Famiglietti of the L.A. band HEALTH.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Coachella attendees on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A young woman dances as 2manydjs is on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)HEALTH guitarist Benjamin Jared Miller.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)A festival-goer is reflected in Phillip K. Smith III’s “Portals.”
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Coachella gate security includes bag checks, metal detectors and a pat-down.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Music fans view an art installation on the festival grounds.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)“Tower of Twelve Stories,” an art exhibit at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Decorative garbage cans at the festival.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Gallant spills a bottle of water onstage April 15 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Gallant onstage April 15 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)2manydjs on stage April 15 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)DJ Mustard at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A fan with a mohawk at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A festival worker keeps an eye on the crowd at the DoLaB tent at Coachella.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Fans relax before Mavis Staples takes the Gobi stage at Coachella on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Mavis Staples and guitarist Rick Holmstrom jam on the Gobi stage at Coachella on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Mavis Staples on the Gobi stage at Coachella on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Mavis Staples on the Gobi stage at Coachella on April 15, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Larger-than-life lamps grace the lawn at Coachella 2016 in Indio, Calif.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)“Katrina Chairs,” by Cuban artist Alexandra Arrechea, on display at Coachella.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)An art installation, Spanish for “Kiss Me a Lot,” at Coachella 2016.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Julie Romero, 21, left, and Adriana Hines, 18, of Yermo, Calif., pose for a photo inside “Portals,” an art installation by Phillip K Smith III, on display at Coachella.
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