The 2014 Coachella will be memorialized as the year of the cameo.
The first double takes came when Chicagos fast-rising Chance the Rapper brought out Justin Bieber in the early afternoon.
The decision was perplexing but alternately emblematic of the new Coachella.
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Whats interesting is how thats allowed for unlikely connections between cross-generational artists.
Crowd whispers intimated that Rihanna might come out to perform their collaborative smash, We Found Love.
It never happened, but the crowd lost their collective minds anyway.
The most surprising of the rarefied guests mightve occurred during the Arcade Fires marathon finale.
Love or hate her, there was a clearly haunting quality to the music.
Few artists are more adept at acting so affected and disaffected at the same time.
