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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/events/stagecoach-music-festival-photographs/"></div>On April 27th and 28th, just a week after the buzz of Coachella died down, 80,000 people descended once again upon the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA for Stagecoach Music Festival. Armed only with two disposable cameras, Matthew Stevens chronicles the weekend in this photoessay.
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Stagecoach Music Festival, in Photographs

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/making-meaning-coachella-era-collapse/"></div>On Saturday, as nearly 100,000 youths blissed out to <a href="https://www.coachella.com/guidebook/set-times/">a lineup</a> that included Lady Gaga, Bon Iver and ScHoolboy Q on the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California, 500 miles to the north antifascist and alt-rightist forces fought in pitched street battles in Berkeley. The day before, on my way from the dusty day parking lot to the 330 acre chunk of emerald sod plopped in the desert like so many of its golf course cousins, I spoke to a 25-year old festival-goer from Encino about his plans for the weekend. It was his first Coachella, and he sincerely hoped his weekend would be devoid of anything political. It was a sentiment that seemed to pervade the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and stands in sun-bleached contrast to the darkness shaping up around us. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/making-meaning-coachella-era-collapse/#more-3869" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Making Meaning at Coachella, in an Era of Collapse

<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/tomorrow-belongs-can-hear-coming-seu-jorge-listening/"></div>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/matthew-stevens/">Matthew Stevens</a>
On a windy night in December, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor Seu Jorge played the last of three sold-out shows at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Jorge was re-adorned in the pale blue tracksuit and red cap get-up made infamous by the card-carrying members of Team Zissou in Wes Anderson’s 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and perched on a chair among oh-so bijou stage dressing (coils of hemp rope, gas lanterns, a dainty ships wheel, and other such flotsam and jetsam). Despite the forced incongruity of his robust presence dressed and decked in these clichéd twee trappings, Jorge was persistently affable as he wound his way through a collection of tales and gags culled from his on-set experience of the filming of Life Aquatic, along with the acoustic, Portuguese-language David Bowie covers that were a significant component of the film’s sharp-edged, posh-stoner atmosphere. The show, billed as “The Life Aquatic / A Tribute to David Bowie,” was, as its title suggests, clumsy and mawkish in conception, and was saved from complete triviality by the sheer friendliness of Jorge’s performance. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/tomorrow-belongs-can-hear-coming-seu-jorge-listening/#more-2973" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Tomorrow Belongs to Those Who Can Hear It Coming, Is Seu Jorge Listening?








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