Coachella

[koh-chel-uh]

noun

1. a city in southern California, 28 miles east of Palm Springs.

2. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. annual festival held in the town of Ionio in southern California.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Coachella¹

Corruption of Spanish conchilla “little shell,” from conch(a) “shell, seashell” ( conch ( def. ) ) + -illa, diminuitive suffix, after the presence of shell fossils in the region

Example Sentences

Buzz in the U.S. started after a killer set at Coachella 2016, but we caught Wolf Alice the following year at Dave Grohl’s Cal Jam in 2017.

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Roan played Coachella last year, won the Grammy for new artist and released a couple of singles this year — the country stomper “The Giver” and misty pop ballad “The Subway.”

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Besides Adler, those detained included three other Californians: internet celebrity Tommy Marcus, who is based in the Los Angeles area; Geraldine Ramirez, from Cathedral City in the Coachella Valley; and Logan Hollarsmith, of San Francisco.

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And seeing such avatars in the mainstream has become increasingly common — in 2024, Japanese digital character Hatsune Miku performed at Coachella and an AI model was featured in the August issue of Vogue magazine for L.A. brand Guess.

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Affirmed by the reaction to the remix — she and Charli broke the internet again when they performed the track live at Madison Square Garden and at Coachella — Lorde burrowed deeper into the uncomfortable truths she wanted to express on “Virgin.”

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