Coachella 2013 Day 1 pics (How to Destroy Angels, Metric, Justin Vernon, Lee Perry, Stone Roses, Karen O, Blur more)

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin (more at BrooklynVegan)

Yeah Yeahs Yeahs / Justin Vernon / Blur

Right now, hundreds--maybe thousands--of teenagers are enjoying their successful pilgrimage to the desert of Indio, California, some hundred miles East of Los Angeles, for the first of two weekends of sweat, music, drugs, and Lindsay Lohan at the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival. They're supposed to be in high school. And back in L.A., administrators and teachers at some of the top schools that have struggled to contend with the empty classrooms of Coachella Fridays are finally learning how to deal with absence in the age of the music festival. The rite of Southern California spring, these educators say, is now something of an acknowledged right. [Atlantic Wire]

Coachella 2013 is underway and streaming live. Our Day One pictures start over at BrooklynVegan and continue here at BV Chicago. Many more below...

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The Shouting Matches (featuring Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver)

Aesop Rock

Johnny Marr

Divine Fits

Japandroids

Metric

Subatomic Sound System fronted by Lee "Scratch" Perry

Jello Biafra

Sparks

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Blur

The Stone Roses

How to Destroy Angels

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