Review: Coachella, meet Couchella: New documentary is a breezy desert daze

The timing couldn’t have been worse when Coachella, now the world’s biggest annual music festival and pop-culture phenomenon, debuted in 1999 on the grassy fields of the Empire Polo Club in Indio.Coming in the wake of the calamitous 1999 edition of Woodstock — which ended with arson, looting and New York state police riot squads being called in to quell the violence — it seemed like a remarkably unfortunate moment to claim the national spotlight. And it was.“We announced Coachella the Monday after Woodstock (’99 ended), and it was a total disaster. People asked, ‘Why would you do this right no…

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