Coachella kicked-off weekend one with rain and snow around Indio as fans funneled into the festival grounds for their first night of music. Although the rain proved treacherous for some festival-goers, the light drizzle and cool gusts of wind acted as the perfect backdrop for the night's headlining performers. The weather improved on Saturday and Sunday, giving the Coachella peeps an opportunity to dry off and enjoy the music.


Key Performances:

Dr. Dre & Snoop	This was one epic set of cameos. Wiz Khalifa, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem got on stage to help the two hip-hop legends make the crowd go wild. The creepiest moment of Coachella came about as a hologram of Tupac was projected on stage to perform a duet with Snoop Dogg.
Radiohead	Nothing more than amazing can be said about Radiohead’s performance with an even balance between songs off of The King Of Limbs, In Rainbows, Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac, Kid A, OK Computer, and Thom York’s silly remarks between songs.
Calvin Harris	The British house producer pleased all his fans when he brought out Rihanna to perform their hit song "We Found Love." Rihanna ended the set with confetti, fog machines and a massive stage-dive into the crowd.
At The Drive-In	Most of the crowd was not ready for ATDI - the Snoop and Dre crowd soon found out that hardcore ATDI fans were there to rock out. It was bitter sweet to see the band kick out One Armed Scissor as their last song - this will probably be the last time that they ever play it live.
Swedish House Mafia	The Swedes heated up the stage late on Friday night with a heavy set of SHM bangers interspersed with pyrotechnic explosions and one of the most vibrant light shows of the weekend.
Kaskade	Kaskade gave Coachella fans a preview of his Freaks of Nature Tour with a combo of brand new, unheard house tracks alongside old Kaskade favorites and a few Swedish House Mafia tracks thrown in for good measure. Kaskade mad sure to bring out his massive glitter blasters which made the entire crowd sparkle in the moonlight.
Justice	Justice had some problems getting started and lost 20 minutes in their set. Nonetheless, they delivered an epic show with a good mix of their electro house bangers.
MODESELEKTOR	The legendary electronic music all-star capped off Coachella with a performance that was nothing short of spectacular.
Amon Tobin	Amon and the Leviathin crew expanded ISAM and built it to be 3 times as big.
The Do Lab	Headtron took over the Do Lab stage on Friday where Jobot killed it with his rock influenced bass music which led into ChrisB skakeweighting the entire set and More Champagne.
Ed Banger	Breakbot delivered the funkiest set of the weekend playing most of his songs live while SebastiAn gave it to us hard with his cigarette smoking and DGAF attitude.
The Rapture	They started out slow warming the crowd up and then rocked out to 'How Deep Is Your Love' which got the whole crowd grooving down.
Borgore	Borgore blasted the crowd with heavy beats and 2 girls on each side of him pole dancing alongside visuals of girls provocatively eating lollypops and popsicles. This was brostep at it’s finest.
Flying Lotus	Playing mostly new material, FlyLo amped up the crowd with a set that was all over the place. It was cameos galore as FlyLo was joined on stage by Earl from OFWGKTA who showed off his freestylin skills. After realizing that he only had 10 minutes of his set left, FlyLo brought out the live band ft. Thundercat on bass to play Mmmhmm live

Celebrity Sightings:
Lindsey Lohan - Jared Leto - Paris Hilton - Kristen Stewart - Elijah Wood - Pink - Michelle Rodriguez - John Mayer - Josh Hartnett - Rachel Bilson - Katy Perry - Kelly Osbourne - Kate Bosworth - Pierce Brosnan - Paul Walker - David Hasselhoff - Colin Hanks

Camping:
Over the course of the weekend, the designated camping area was trashed with muddy rain slickers, empty beer cans and abandoned festival swag. Still, spirits remained high and the booze drinking, bacon, tanning, sunburns, frisbee, soccer, bikinis, homemade slip n slide, and boys club short shorts party made Coachella worth it.


And that wraps up weekend one of Coachella 2012... Avicii ‘Le7els’ play count – 13