12 acts we can’t wait to see at Coachella

While Coachella 2023 headliners Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will attract the largest crowds and the most IG posts, as ever, it’s the you-saw-them-when acts that will provide future bragging rights to fans in the know. As responsible as anyone for the dark, skittering sound of modern trap, Metro Boomin made his name cutting hits like Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” and the Hot 100-topping “Bad and Boujee” by Migos; “Creepin’,” his Mario Winans-sampling collab with the Weeknd and 21 Savage, has been hanging around the upper reaches of Spotify’s U.S. Top 50 for months. But the beloved Ohio band led by twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal hasn’t released an LP since “All Nerve” in 2018; more to the point, many of those heading out to Indio weren’t alive three decades ago when the Breeders dropped the classic “Last Splash.” Still, traces of the Deals’ deadpan vocals and fuzzed-out melodies are easily discernible in stuff by the higher-billed likes of Wet Leg and Remi Wolf. Ethel Cain Cain wrote one of last year’s defining rock singles, the Tom Petty-worthy barn-burner “American Teenager” that smuggled in some deep cynicism about the rural South that raised her. APRIL 16 AND 23 IDK 2022 was the year of the dance floor, and IDK’s EP, titled “Simple,” was one of dance music’s strongest releases.