Notable sets from day three of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, on Sunday, April 14.
Y.G. Marley
Y.G. Marley, who carried the family name of Saint Bob, was a sure bet to drop a few of his great-grandfather’s songs into his mid-afternoon set at Coachella on Sunday.
What you couldn’t have foreseen, though, was that his performance would also result in an unexpected sorta reunion of the Fugees, too.
In hindsight it all made sense: Y.G. Marley’s mother is former Fugee Lauryn Hill, his father Rohan Marley, grandson of Bob Marley.
And it was Hill who showed up first midway through the set to sing songs of her own such as “Ex-Factor” and “Lost Ones” before sliding into the Fugees’ cover of “Killing Me Softly With His Song.”
During the latter song Fugee Wycliff Jean was on stage, too, and that group’s “Fu-gee-La” followed.
Rapper Busta Rhymes came out next — Y.G. has definitely got some pull — to do his own “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See“ and a cover of a Chris Brown song, showing off his rapid-fire rap skills to the audiences delight.
A handful of Bob Marley classics followed — “One Love” and “Exodus” among them — before the whole collective finished up with the Fugees’ “Ready or Not,” Bob Marley’s “Is This Love,” and Hill’s “Praise Jah in the Moonlight.”
All praise the Marley Family Complex.
— Peter Larsen
Taking Back Sunday
Fans of the early festival days often say they’d like to see more rock acts on the bill and this year’s lineup has arguably fulfilled the request. Rock fans were treated to the ’90s bunch (No Doubt, Sublime and Blur) and more indie rock acts such as The Last Dinner Party and Narrow Head.
Rockers also got a chance to get in their feels with alt-pop punk act Taking Back Sunday.The group took the Mojave tent by storm with crowds overflowing while they played through angsty hits such as “You’re So Last Summer” “Liar (It Takes One To Know One)” and “MakeDamnSure.”
While Coachella continues to be a melting pot of genres globally there is without a doubt still plenty of room for rockers.
— Charlie Vargas
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