The 13 best things we saw at Coachella

The 2023 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be remembered first and foremost as the most diverse and inclusive in its history, with three nonwhite headliners — Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean — topping the bill. Their set was crashed by indie-rock supergroup boygenius — Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus — who lent their folky voices to Muna and Bridgers’ 2022 delight, “Silk Chiffon.” — S.E. Boygenius : Award for best walk-on music of the weekend goes to boygenius, who set the mood for their exuberant Outdoor Theatre set with Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town,” then kept that same energy with “$20” and “Satanist,” the two highest-energy tunes from the indie-rock supergroup’s excellent new debut, “The Record.” After that, the trio of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker — each dressed in crisp black-and-white suits like a winking Reservoir Dog — mellowed out for the more Laurel Canyon-ish parts of their catalog. But from the minute Blackpink counted down to “Pink Venom” after a formidable aerial drone swarm, their set felt different — a scale, skill and intensity of pop craftsmanship bigger than anything else that’s graced this stage since Beyoncé made history in 2018. Fousheé : There’s something deeply admirable about Fousheé’s commitment to demolishing the Top-40 potential she had after writing one of last year’s biggest hits, Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habits.” She’s written and sung with Lil Wayne, James Blake, Lil Yachty and Vince Staples, but at Coachella, her set was rife with gnarled punk songs like “Stupid Bitch“ and “Deep End,” where she taunted a man that “he can’t afford me, he can’t afford me.” With a great backing band of long-haired Hessians and a few swirls of sampled atmospherics, the singer, dressed in a black-and-chrome bondage skirt, got a perverse glee out of upending expectations.