Give me a one, a two, a one, two three four…
While you might think a company like Doo Dah Apparel should focus almost exclusively on the circular apparel industry here in the United States, we’ve decided to write a blog about music this week. For good reason, too.
First of all, if global warming is starting to get on your nerves, music is almost an entirely carbon-free form of entertainment. Rock your brains out kids! Unless, of course, you find the need to burn carbon fuels on your way to a music festival like Coachella. If you can’t float your way to a concert, then maybe you could stay home with a pair of headphones enjoying your favorite songs with a warm bowl of peach cobbler à la mode in one hand while scrolling through your playlists with the other. But if being cooped up at home is starting to drive you nuts, and the desire to attend a live concert feels overwhelming, please venture out responsibly.
As a Southern California company with a targeted demographic consisting mostly of young adults, we do feel the need to dispel a rumor that the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is moving to Colorado Springs and/or Washington State. According to Coachella’s website, tickets are already being sold for the April 2026 Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, and the festival will very likely continue to be held in Indio until the end of its lease in 2050.
The Coachella Music Festival is a social phenomenon. Lady Gaga, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Gustavo Dudamel, The Go-Go’s, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic are just a few of the musical performances entertaining an estimated crowd of around 125,000 people each day.
While it might seem The Coachella Music Festival is a major contributor to the City of Indio’s carbon footprint, Coachella has made substantive efforts to limit its environmental impact. Attendees are encouraged to carpool “Carpoolchella” to cut down on gas, money and emissions. Single use utensils and plastic water bottles are discouraged, while promoting composting, recycling, and energy conservation. Renewable diesel is sourced for generators, and on-site solar panels and zero emission battery systems are used to generate and store sustainable power. Coachella is focused on providing a clean, environmentally responsible opportunity for many concertgoers to enjoy the acts they love to see and listen to.
Coachella is also committed to addressing social issues. The Festival invites internationally recognized activists and scholars to participate in the Global Inheritance Speaker Series to discuss important issues affecting the lives of many people and communities around the world.
One of the reasons I’m writing a blog about music today is because I met two fantastic ladies from Palm Springs over the long Memorial Day weekend. They were here in Los Angeles to see an Angus & Julia Stone concert. I had no idea who Angus & Julia Stone are, so we started talking about Palm Springs and eventually the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, which Is located just east of Palm Springs and Palm Desert in Riverside County off the I-10 Highway. I spent half the conversation worrying about contracting Valley Fever, which is a respiratory ailment caused by a soil fungus in dry Southwestern communities like Indio, and the other half thinking of ways I could get these girls’ phone numbers. Turns out they’re sisters, and Valley Fever isn’t contagious, so I’m halfway in the clear there.
Angus & Julia Stone are a good band. I found them on iTunes, and I’ve added their song Big Jet Plane to my playlist. Their music reminds me of bands I’d listen to in high school and college, like the Cowboy Junkies and Mazzy Star. They sound almost like a less pronounced, melancholic, lyrically feminine version of Pink Floyd.
In the eye of the beholder, in the ear of the beholder, that is what music is. We listen to what we enjoy, and aside from an occasionally graphic lyric, it’s clean, easily accessible, environmentally responsible, and pleasing to the soul. If there is a heaven on earth, its warming, healing and singing to us in tunes.
Brett Bridgman
Doo Dah Apparel
