After an earnest request by Jack White, the traditionalist rocker’s request to ask the mostly millennial audience at Coachella’s first weekend were met with deaf ears.
Most seemed distracted by their Snapchats and Periscope videos. The statement says a lot: how quickly Coachella has evolved in only the past few years from a festival for die-hard audiophiles and band groupies to a weekend event centered around a place for scensters to gather and gloat on Facebook about it.