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From April 21 to 23, head arts editor Lauren Harvey made her way to Indio to experience the famous festival in all its sticky, sundry fun. Here are her highlights from Coachella 2023.

On Ugly, released March 3, the medium is most certainly the message, with Slowthai’s post-punk-influenced performances adding another dimension of expression that no mere combination of words could ever do.

For a musical project that created an infinite cartoon universe for its four fictional members to inhabit, Gorillaz shows surprisingly little evolution in style or substance on Cracker Island.

With her sophomore LP Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa put the pop music genre on her shoulders — and needless to say, she carried it without wavering.

'Song Machine Episode 3' encapsulates the same electronic dreaminess of Gorillaz’s former work, but it's the staggering of emotion throughout the release that keeps listeners hooked.

Writing about art put me close to so many artists. It was exhilarating. But I was only ever close.

The album art — a swirly, wistful drawing in cotton candy hues of 2-D playing his guitar — is in line with the mood of The Now Now, which is primarily beachside ennui.

Kid Cudi and Kanye West’s KIDS SEE GHOSTS is both unapologetic and melodramatic, both raging and reflective: In short, it’s everything fans wanted.

Besides the music videos cycling through the screen behind the stage, their 8-bit countenances also made occasional appearances on a small overhead display.

This year’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival marked the 10th anniversary of the massive music festival held at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.