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    Coachella 2023: Gabriels impresses and Boygenius joins Muna during Day 1
    • April 15, 2023

    The sun had just started its descent Friday during day one of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio when the L.A. group Muna took the stage and turned the Mojave Tent into a joyful dance party for anyone who’s ever had their heart broken.

    “This is another break-up song you can shake your ass to,” singer Katie Gavin said after a series of exactly that.

    And dance the crowd did as the three women of Muna welcomed the sad, the happy, the lonely, the rejected to celebrate with them.

    After playing the group’s next single, “One That Got Away, out Monday, the band shifted back in time to play “I Know a Place,” the first song they ever wrote together “back when we were just three queens in a college dorm room.”

    But the response from the crowd to that point was dwarfed when Muna wrapped up its set with “Silk Chiffon” and was joined first by Phoebe Bridgers, and then a verse later by Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, who as a trio perform as Boygenius, which is scheduled to play the fest on Saturday.

    The Murder Capital performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Gabriels perform in the Gobi Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Murder Capital performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Soul Glo performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Soul Glo performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Soul Glo performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Comet is Coming performs on the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Comet is Coming performs on the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Soul Glo performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Gabriels perform in the Gobi Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Murder Capital performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Comet is Coming performs on the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Gabriels perform in the Gobi Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Comet is Coming performs on the Outdoor Theatre during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Soul Glo performs in the Sonora Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Comet is Coming performs on the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    Gabriels perform in the Gobi Tent during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

    The Comet is Coming performs on the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Stage during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14, 2023. (Photo by David Brendan Hall, Contributing Photographer)

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    Early highlights as the first day of Coachella is underway included a gorgeous set from the neo-soul group Gabriels.

    Singer Jacob Lusk arrived last on stage, dressed in a classic tuxedo beneath an ankle-length blue, orange and gold-patterned cape with a crimson lining. With Ari Balouzian on violin and Ryan Hope on synth and keyboards, Lusk delivered a stunning vocal on “Offering,” the group’s recent single. “Love and Hate in a Different Time” and “Taboo” were equally beautiful, the moving qualities of the songs leavened by Lusk’s funny commentary between songs.

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    The young jazz duo of Domi and J.D. Beck, fresh off a Grammy nomination this year for best new artist, drew an enthusiastic crowd to the Mojave Tent.

    Domi played piano facing Beck on drums, their tight chops worthy of the acclaim they’ve received. They expressed their Gen Z humor in self-deprecating comments as older musicians including Mac DeMarco and Thundercat joined them to perform songs from the duo’s album including “Bowling,” the Thundercat-sung song inspired by “The Big Lebowski.”

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    The earliest hours of the day typically featured bands that many festival-goers don’t know, though those who do are psyched to see their underground heroes.

    Of those, the English jazz-meets-electronic trio The Comet Is Coming drew a decent crowd to the Outdoor Stage, while British singer-songwriter Lava La Rue and the North Ireland-bred post-punk band the Murder Capital had enthusiastic if small crowds inside the Sonora Tent.

    The day also saw a set by a true homegrown artist as DannyLux, who grew up just minutes away from the festival grounds, gave his small-yet-mighty crowd a set filled with new hits, old favorites and his band even sported new suits for the occasion. Young fans were screaming the lyrics back to the Chicano artist as he played “el dueno de tu amor” and “Te Falle,” his latest single, which dropped last month.

    Before his set, fans took to social media to share images of signage located just outside of the new Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert just off the I-10 Freeway that read “My Last time at Coachella I was picking up trash, now I’m back seeing my son perform this Friday.” DannyLux’s father had the signs created and it was very sweet to see.

    A packed crowd inside the Sahara Tent turned up the heat with Dombresky, an electronic and house producer from Miami, as he graced the decks. The set was filled with psychedelic visuals that paired well with the music as fans were jumping and swaying along with the bass blasting from the speakers creating vibrations that could be felt from head to toe.

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