Photos: Coachella: Day One, let the party begin
Janelle Monae performs on the Coachella stage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Janelle Monae performs on the Coachella stage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Janelle Monae performs on the Coachella stage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Janelle Monae performs on the Coachella stage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Janelle Monae performs on the Coachella stage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Janelle Monae performs on the Coachella stage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Fans take a break outside the Indio Central Market food tent at the end of day one.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Charlotte Gainsbourg performs.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)Charlotte Gainsbourg performs.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)K-Pop girlband BLACKPINK performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)BLACKPINK on the Sahara stage at Coachella.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)The band BLACKPINK performs.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A projection of the band BLACKPINK.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Rapper/actor Jaden Smith performs on Day One.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)A backup singer is suspended in midair during a performance by Jaden Smith.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)People gather near an art piece called “Colossal Cacti” as night falls on Day One.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Spanish singer Rosalia Vila Tobella performs.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Spanish singer Rosalia Vila Tobella performs.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Rosalia Vila Tobella on Day One.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Rosalia Vila Tobella and backup dancers.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)A Coachella art installation called “Sarbale Ke.”
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Ron Leddy, a Los Angeles resident, at Coachella.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Fans enjoy the K-Pop girlband BLACKPINK.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Sam Peraino, left, and Kayla Rover inside an art piece called “Spectra.”
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)Matty Healy of The 1975 onstage.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Matty Healy of The 1975.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)View of the festival grounds through the art installation “Spectra.”
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A visitor peers out of the artwork “Spectra” during day one at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)A hand of “The Astronaut” looms over the festival grounds during day one at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Kacey Musgraves onstage during day one at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Kacey Musgraves onstage during day one at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)“The Astronaut” by Poetic Kenetics roams the festival grounds during Day One.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth onstage during Day One.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth plays saxophone.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Let’s Eat Grandma’s Rosa Walton, left, and Jenny Hollingworth, on keyboard, center, on stage during Day One.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Festivalgoers dance and cool off in the Do LaB.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Festivalgoers at the Do LaB.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Festivalgoers walk past Francis Kere’s “Sarbale ke” set of towers on Day One.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)An early-arriving festivalgoer checks out a piece of art called “Colossal Cacti” by Office Kovacs on Day One.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)