Wu-Tang Clan [photo: Debi Del Grande]As weekend one of Southern California's Coachella music festival wrapped up on Sunday, the two side stages were the perfect places to see and be scene--not only because those tents offered some of the coolest buzz acts of the entire festival (Cloud Nothings, DIIV, Deap Vally, Thee Oh Sees), but because they offered much-needed shelter from the Indio desert's bizarrely sudden gusts of eyeball-exfoliating sandy wind. At times it seemed like Sunday's sandstorm would loosen the smaller Mojave and Gobi stages' moorings and send the tents skyward, a la Dorothy's house in The Wizard of Oz (side note: I'm not kidding, at one point a blast of wind literally lifted me off my feet and hurled me a couple yards across the field). But maybe, just maybe, some of the Sunday Coachella acts' stormily forceful rocking was partially to blame for all the commotion.

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These were some of the highlights from the Coachella festival's wild and windblown final day:

The Make-Up's Ian Svenonius [photo: Debi Del Grande]Southern California's desert musicfest Coachella continued apace on Saturday, bringing plenty of great early sets by buzz acts like Biffy Clyro, Vintage Trouble, Theophilus London, and the Wombats, not to mention plenty of potentially hallucination-inducing desert heat. (But that surprise R. Kelly/Phoenix duet that happened later? That was no mirage. That actually happened.)

And along the way, some random radness ensued. Here are four cool observations from the first half of day two in the desert:

all photos by Debi Del Grande - click to enlargeDespite taking place in Southern California's sun-baked Indio desert, Coachella 2013 felt a lot more like Glastonbury 1992 this Friday, when the first day of the musicfest was co-headlined by recently reunited Britpop bands Blur and Stone Roses. (Spoiler alert: Not to start a new Britpop war, a la the infamous Blur-vs.-Oasis years, but Blur were the far better of the two.) "For those of you who are unfamiliar with us," quipped Blur frontman Damon Albarn, "we're from England, and we've just had like four months of gray weather. A lot of our songs are informed by our bad weather, so it's nice to enjoy your sunshine here."

all photos by Debi Del Grande - click to enlargeRumor has it that the Smiths have been repeatedly offered whopping seven-figure sums to headline the Coachella music festival in Southern California's Indio desert, but so far, that longed-for Smiths reunion has been a no-go. However, fans of the legendary Manchester post-punks still got a dose of (Morrissey-free) Smithery at Coachella this year--when the band's seemingly ageless ex-guitarist, Johnny Marr, performed no less than three Smiths classics during his Friday afternoon set in the Mojave Tent.