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Indio, California

THE PLACE TO BE

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP: Jimenez Lai’s Tower of 12 Stories sculpture at Coachella—the festival that acts as a musical primer for the summer to come.
COACHELLA

IN MID-APRIL, just before the sun begins its high-summer blaze, Coachella squeals to life. A music and arts extravaganza that runs for two consecutive weekends in the California desert outside the small city of Indio, it acts as a marker—a handy primer for which artists to watch and the live sets to catch in all the summer festivals to come.

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