A Book About Coachella by Billboard Senior Music Correspondent Katie Bain Is Out Now

Twenty-six years agone this month, connected Oct. 9-10, 1999, the archetypal ever Coachella came to beingness astatine the Empire Polo Club successful Indio, Calif. Featuring headliners Beck, Morrissey, The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine and Tool, the lawsuit was the debut iteration of the festival that would successful the pursuing years go a planetary touchpoint of music, manner and culture.

Desert Dreams: The Music, Style and Allure of Coachella, a caller publication by Billboard elder euphony analogous Katie Bain, explores the past and power of Coachella, looking astatine however an lawsuit with origins with the SoCal punk stone country became a planetary improvement and barometer for each year’s philharmonic stars and trends. The publication is retired Tuesday (Oct. 21) via Epic Ink. (Here’s however you tin bid it.)

The hardcover java array publication includes much than 150 archival photographs illustrating the festival’s astir influential performances, from Rage Against the Machine to Radiohead to the zeitgeist sharing Tupac hologram to Beychella to Lady Gaga, its astir iconic connected and offstage fashionistas, biggest headlines and overmuch more.

Designed for some predominant Coachella-goers and those who’ve ne'er been to the fest, Desert Dreams captures the improvement of a pop-culture touchstone that transformed however we prosecute with music, manner and art.

The publication arrives astir a period aft the merchandise of the 2026 Coachella lineup, with Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G acceptable to header adjacent year’s spectacle. The publication looks astatine however specified popular euphony came to predominate Coachella’s headlining slots, however the festival’s cutting borderline livestream bolstered maturation and however the emergence of societal media helped marque the polo tract into a weekend-long catwalk for models, movie stars, influencers and different taste luminaries.