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Julien Baker and Mackenzie Scott (a.k.a Torres) are indie singer-songwriters with Southern roots. Baker is from Memphis, and Torres hails from Macon, Georgia. They’ve both always been excellent storytellers with an eye for the harder-edged emotional details in life. On Send a Prayer My Way, they get together for a …

So much of Arca’s career has been about showing us just how vast and limitless her imagination is, and the pioneering producer/artist used her Coachella debut to remind the world of just that. As she took on the Gobi stage, Arca stunned the crowd with a thundering set that kept …

Over the weekend, Benson Boone took the stage at Coachella for the first time with a set that built up to one firecracker moment: his surprise guest appearance from Brian May. It came toward the end of the set, with the Queen member emerging for an encore performance of “Bohemian …

Weezer kicked off the second day of Coachella and rocked through some of their biggest hits on Saturday at the Mojave Stage. For 45 minutes, the band’s tight early afternoon set spanned fan-favorites like “Say It Ain’t So,” “ Beverly Hills,” and “Island in the Sun.” The band kicked off …

Clairo had an unexpected guest for fans on Saturday night at Coachella: Just before her set began, Bernie Sanders came out for a moment of political activism in the desert. The Vermont Senator, who was in California for an anti-oligarchy rally earlier in the day, encouraged the crowd to fight …

Lady Gaga closed down the first night of Coachella with an opulent, career-spanning performance, and tonight, fans will gather to see Green Day take the main stage. The punk rockers already had some fun at the festival: Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joined The Go-Gos to perform on Friday. Fans can …

We knew it would be brat, but just how brat? Charli XCX exceeded expectations with a raucous Coachella set that included off-the-wall energy and guest appearances from her buds Lorde, Billie Eilish, and Troye Sivan. Early on in the festival, you could tell that Charli’s set was one of the …

Lizzo returned to Saturday Night Live with several songs from her upcoming fifth studio album, Love in Real Life, opening with a medley of the title track and “Still Bad.” The singer-rapper, who had taken a self-described “gap year” in 2024, released the former in late February–her first single since …

The energy at Coachella had started to shift even before Green Day’s long-awaited headlining set on Saturday night. About an hour earlier, Charli XCX had sent the crowd into an all-out frenzy with a set that included surprise appearances from Lorde, Billie Eilish, and Troye Sivan. Then, before Clairo started …

When Travis Scott spoke to Complex about his Coachella set, he promised it would not be “not about Trav” and instead about community. He kept true to his word. On Saturday night, the rapper played his set from the middle of the crowd, using the main stage as a mere …