{"id":196445,"date":"2025-10-21T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/a-book-about-coachella-by-billboard-senior-music-correspondent-katie-bain-is-out-now\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:11:43","slug":"a-book-about-coachella-by-billboard-senior-music-correspondent-katie-bain-is-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/a-book-about-coachella-by-billboard-senior-music-correspondent-katie-bain-is-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book About Coachella by Billboard Senior Music Correspondent Katie Bain Is Out\u00a0Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTwenty-six years ago this month, on Oct. 9-10, 1999, the first ever Coachella came to life at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. Featuring headliners Beck, Morrissey, The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine and Tool, the event was the debut iteration of the festival that would in the following years become a global touchpoint of music, fashion and culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Desert Dreams: The Music, Style and Allure of Coachella,<\/em> a new book by<em> Billboard<\/em> senior music correspondent Katie Bain, explores the history and influence of Coachella, looking at how an event with origins with the SoCal punk rock scene became a global phenomenon and barometer for each year\u2019s musical stars and trends. The book is out Tuesday (Oct. 21) via Epic Ink. 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class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1024px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image   lrv-u-margin-t-125 u-padding-b-10 u-margin-t-26@mobile-max lrv-u-display-inline-block lrv-u-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((683\/1024)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/desert-dreams-coachella-katie-bain-billboard-1800.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Desert Dreams: The Music, Style, and Allure of Coachella by Katie Bain\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/desert-dreams-coachella-katie-bain-billboard-1800.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/desert-dreams-coachella-katie-bain-billboard-1800.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/desert-dreams-coachella-katie-bain-billboard-1800.jpg?resize=681,454 681w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 100vw\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column a-font-accent-xs lrv-u-color-black u-margin-t-n4px lrv-u-padding-lr-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-font-size-11 u-line-height-19px u-word-spacing-n0156px u-letter-spacing-0026 u-padding-b-0625@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"\">Desert Dreams: The Music, Style, and Allure of Coachella by Katie Bain<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-letter-spacing-0094 lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-size-10 u-margin-t-2px\">Epic Ink<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDesigned for both frequent Coachella-goers and those who\u2019ve never been to the fest, <em>Desert Dreams <\/em>captures the evolution of a pop-culture touchstone that transformed how we engage with music, fashion and art.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe book arrives roughly a month after the release of <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/concerts\/coachella-2026-sabrina-carpenter-justin-bieber-karol-g-1236067163\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/concerts\/coachella-2026-sabrina-carpenter-justin-bieber-karol-g-1236067163\/\">the 2026 Coachella lineup<\/a>, with Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G set to headline next year\u2019s spectacle. The book looks at how such pop music came to dominate Coachella\u2019s headlining slots, how the festival\u2019s cutting edge livestream bolstered growth and how the rise of social media helped make the polo field into a weekend-long catwalk for models, movie stars, influencers and other cultural luminaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/coachella-book-desert-dreams-katie-bain-how-to-buy-1236093496\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six years ago this month, on Oct. 9-10, 1999, the first ever Coachella came to life at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. Featuring headliners Beck, Morrissey, The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine and Tool, the event was the debut iteration of the festival that would in the following years become a global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}