Coachella 2013: Day 1

Japandroids singer-guitarist Brian King.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Damon Albarn of Blur performs at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performs at Coachella.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Ian Brown of The Stone Roses performs at Coachella.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

The Lucent Dossier Experience performs at Coachella   (Brian VanderBrug / Los Angeles Times)

The crowd waits for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to come on at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performs at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goers mill around the Empire Polo Club grounds at the Coachella festival.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Nick Cave, left, at Coachella.  (Brian VanderBrug / Los Angeles Times)

Earl Sweatshirt performs at Coachella.  (Brian VanderBrug / Los Angeles Times)

Hexar Anderson of Seattle juggles at the Coachella festival.  (Brian VanderBrug / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goers take on an electric jump rope at the Do LaB at Coachella.  (Brian VanderBrug / Los Angeles Times)

Nick Cave performs at Coachella.  (Brian VanderBrug / Los Angeles Times)

Revelers watch the band TNGHT at this weekend’s 14th annual Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Dog Blood is Skrillex, left, and Boys Noize spinning at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A snail sculpture titled Helix Poeticus moves along at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Fans in the Sahara tent dance to Dog Blood at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Butterflies light up the night sky at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

TNGHT performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Jello Biafra performs at the Empire Polo Grounds at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A fan in the Gobi tent watches TNGHT at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Night falls on the concessions area on the first day of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Dusk on the first day at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, site of this weekend’s 14th annual Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Night falls on the first day of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Russell Mael of the band Sparks performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

The sun sets on festival goers and the Ferris wheel at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Detail of Brian King’s guitar as he tunes up for the Japandroids’ set on the Gobi.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A fan crowd-surfs during the Japandroids’ set.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Security keeps an eye on things at the mosh pit during Johnny Marr’s performance.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

One of concert goers.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A fan waves an inflatable palm tree.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A couple enjoys a laugh on the grass.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Temps are in the 90s, which makes the cold-water spray at the Do LaB especially inviting.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Johnny Marr performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on opening day.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Johnny Marr performs.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goer Angel Sanchez, 19, of Indio sparkles on Friday.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goers at the Do LaB.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Phenia Hovsepyan, 23, of Los Angeles plays hoops.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Tattoos and a tutu at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A festival-goer dances inside the Heineken Dome at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Bo Mitchell, 22, gets down to some tunes.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Revelers take a self-portrait.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Gisselle Iglesias, 22, dances to DJ Sam XL Pure Filth Sound.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Ashley DeBlois, 19, takes in the sun and the music.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goer Eric Anderson, 17.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Dancers groove.   (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Anna Schwartz, 18, and Keith Kreiner, 17, both of Palos Verdes, take a moment away from performances.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

The plush Yuma Tent at the Empire Polo Grounds.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

The Recyclasauras Rex by Johny Amerika.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

The grateful crowd gets sprayed with a hose.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Inside the Yuma Tent.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Anita Tanjutco, 28, of Scottsdale, Ariz., rides a seesaw.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A fan watches Lord Huron perform on the Mojave Stage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Fans cheer Lord Huron’s performance on the Mojave Stage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Lord Huron performs on the Mojave Stage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Lord Huron performs on the Mojave Stage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A festivalgoer naps in the shade between shows at Coachella.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Early arrivals dance at the Empire Polo Grounds, home of the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Fans who arrived early have the shade all to themselves for a while.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Trinh Le, 28 of Oakland, foreground, peers through a telescope on an art installation titled “Sidewalk’s End” by the Oakland-based Flux Foundation.  (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times)

Flower child Bryana Holly, 20 of Huntington Beach on Day 1 of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Attendees dance to the music Friday at the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Max S. of Los Angeles clowns on a large rock near the entrance to the festival grounds.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goers Danika Cook, 29, of San Diego and Jeremy Owens 24, of San Diego.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goers dance in the Gobi tent.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A worker from the L.A.-based Poetic Kinetics checks on a snail sculpture titled Helix Poeticus.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Jessica Morris, 28, with sister Katie 18, both from Canada.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Festival-goers dance to a DJ set around the Do LaB.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)