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Coachella is as famous for the parties as it is for the music.
- The Coachella Music & Arts Festival takes place over two weekends in April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
- While Coachella is a music festival, it has long been just as famous for the exclusive parties surrounding the event, and the social media influencers, models, and celebrities who flock to them.
- When I decided to go to Coachella for the first time this year, I was determined to get into an exclusive after-party. The first party I got into was an overcrowded dud - but the second was the real deal.
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I never really thought I'd go to Coachella, as I always saw it as more about the scene - the parties, the Instagrammable art, the wild outfits - than the music. But when Business Insider asked me to cover the festival, I was figured I might as well go all-in.
That meant getting into one of the exclusive parties outside of the event. You know, the kind where you're more likely to run into a B-List (or C-List) movie star or musician than a drunk teenager.
I'm happy to say that, by the end of the weekend and a bit of finagling, I was successful. Here's what it was like.