Coachella Photos & Recap: Ryan Adams’ Long-Tease Apathy Proves Frustrating

As we hit our final stride on the first weekend at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Ryan Adams took to the Outdoor stage in the waning afternoon sunshine for an intensely frustrating set. The catchiness of recent single “Gimme Something Good” and “Oh My Sweet Carolina” defied the unlistenable drollness of roughly half the performance. It was as if he were trying to bore us, looking as disinterested as possible in the process. “Yay, sad music in the desert. Let’s sad up this desert,” he mused before telling a cherry picker above the stage, “Strangely we’re still higher than you.”

Coachella Day One: Action Bronson, AC/DC Rule The Day

Yep, sure seemed that way. It was no surprise, then, that the crowd’s attention was evenly split between the stage and the approaching massive butterfly – a public art piece that had been a giant butterfly the previous two days.

Check out our full recap of the Day 3 experience, as well as an exclusive photo gallery below: