Despite recent reports that Coachella is on the decline, Pranav Trewn reports live for the latest edition of his We Outside column, suggesting we should still be grateful for the festival and the moments it creates.

After several uninspiring summers, this year’s festival run finds artists seizing control of increasingly corporatized spaces and performing for themselves.

Melody's Echo Chamber is finally back with "Father's Day."

I caught Darkside last week at Coachella and it made me feel like a ancient Bedouin watching a comet streak past. Some freakish slip n’ slide of divinity. That sounds overwrought in daylight or via LED screen, but there’s something futile in searching for the proper vocabulary or a scientific debunking. Sometimes delusion is preferable. […]