Whirlwind Weekend: Beyoncé Becomes Coachella, Country Reckons, Rock Hall Steps Up
Headlines came fast and furiously over this past weekend, with Coachella kicking off, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame succeeding (and failing) and the ACM Awards falling a little flat.
It was a uniquely busy weekend for music, with a handful of events having taken place that illustrated new and familiar concentrations of power or shifting alliances or institutions doubling down on the status quo:Coachella now has a new name; the Academy of Country Music Awards' 53rd year was held in Las Vegas six months after a mass shooting took place at a country music festival in the city; the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted some vanilla rockers and two epochal contributors and Kanye West re-downloaded Twitter. You may have obliquely kept up with some of this; you may have missed some. Here's what you need to
