The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

By LA Weekly Mon., Apr. 16 2012 at 9:03 AM

Categories: Coachella

Christopher Victorio

The weather was in effect

See also:
*The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14
*Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs

Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sunday. See you next weekend!

Tupac Shakur Hologram at the Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg performance
Someone standing on the edges of the tens of thousands of attendees at Coachella's Sunday headlining performance might have wondered, why the fuck would Dr. Dre approve dressing up someone like Tupac Shakur and sending him out there as part of the show? But they would have quickly realized -- hey, that's NOT a person. That is a hologram, a computer generated image of Tupac that Snoop Dogg is out there performing with in tandem. At that moment, it went from cheesy to all-out weird. It evoked images of rapping with a ghost, or perhaps a Jurassic Park moment necessitating a quote from Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm: Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. -Adam Lovinus

The Weather and the Musician-Inspired Ice Cream
The high Sunday was 81 degrees. The perfect weather turned Coachella into the festival we knew and loved again. There were shirtless dudes baking in the sun, girls dancing in bikinis. The next logical step? Cool Haus ice cream sandwiches! The $6 treats were named (or renamed) for musicians playing the fest; I had the Gary Clark Jr.-inspired sandwich, which was made with whiskey ice cream and fruity pebbles. Yum. -Lilledeshan Bose

Seun Kuti, Outdoor Stage
Nigerian showman Seun Kuti's afternoon performance on the Outdoor stage spoke to the young crowd, who responded to his music and expressions of political activism. "This is for my father," he shouted over the cheers, to honor the legacy of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, whose songs inspired a generation of Nigerians. At Coachella, everyone from hippie chicks to beefed-up bros felt the energy. Sweat streamed down Kuti's back until, arms raised, he and his backup dancers ran offstage to the screams of his new fans. -Gabrielle Canon