Coachella's genius is geography: the festival sits in a palm-fringed desert valley twenty minutes from Palm Springs, so the holiday builds itself — mid-century architecture, taco crawls and pool time by day, headliners under floodlit mountains by night. It's as much fashion week as gig, which is half the anthropology. Go for the second April weekend, when tickets and villa rentals run cheaper, and pay for the shuttle pass; festival car parks at 1am break spirits.
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