The Best and Worst of Coachella 2026 | Pitchfork
Addison Rae, Nine Inch Noize, Devo, Geese, and Young Thug were big highlights the first weekend at Indio, acts that embraced the divide between the performer and audience.
Save this story Save this story About halfway through Addison Rae ’s Saturday evening set on Coachella’s main stage, after the Louisiana singer had implored her audience to “manifest something” for themselves and chant the hook of “Money is Everything,” I tried to take stock of what I was seeing. Rae’s setup was meticulous, maximalist, and totally unified—the boa made of hundred-dollar bills, the backup dancers who looked vaguely like mimes, the scaffolding that suggested Moulin Rouge! could be restaged somewhere between Baton Rouge and the inside of a microchip. I glanced past the margins of
saved by
related reading
- The Sound of Being Online: Sabukaru Meets Ninajirachi — sabukarusabukaru.online
- KataConor's Weekly Listening List #8kataconor.substack.com
- Your Favorite Artist Is Probably Opening for Turnstile’s Next Tourpitchfork.com
- Justin Bieber, Pop Music’s Fallen Angel, Rises Again at Coachella | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- the weight of dreamsspencerchang.substack.com
- Rising Star Chappell Roan Meets Her Moment With Ecstatic New York Show: Concert Reviewweb.archive.org
- :cirqueSaw -| hello world |-cirquesaw.com
- The Performative Epidemic: Why Everything Feels Fake Nowixcarus.substack.com
- The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissickharpers.org
- Anne Carson · On Rosalíalrb.co.uk
- Config, Waymo, and Tents - by Reggie Jameshipcityreg.substack.com
- Interview: Bleachers - how to leave your hometown and survive. | Coup de Main Magazinecoupdemainmagazine.com