Hey pals. The 23rd edition of Coachalla wrapped up last weekend, and you know what that means: It’s time for The Culture Journalist’s annual Coachella Report, where co-host Andrea Domanick returns from Indio, CA ready to dish on all the trends in fashion, music, and media she spotted on the ground. You can think of it as a little capsule review of the 2024 zeitgeist, at least as refracted through the lens of America’s premiere mass-market music festival. Join us as we discuss the collapse of consensus culture and the festival’s regionalist embrace of its own SoCal roots, the rise of the A$AP Rocky “brobushka” (and those leather “festival belts” that everyone loves to hate on), the return of gabber, and the dystopian surreality of partying in the desert right as Israel was dropping missiles on Iran.
