Kevin Bronson on April 21st, 2013

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The serious collided with the ridiculous on Saturday at Coachella, a day festival-goers got constant reminders of the week’s real-world events while losing their inhibitions to otherworldly temptations. Throughout the Empire Polo Field, many attendees wore Boston gear in a show of solidarity with the city victimized by last week’s terror attack. Celtic punkers the Dropkick Murphys launched their set with “For Boston,” playing to fans largely bedecked in green, but all was not so reverential. It was, after all, 4/20, and that spirit was in the air too, especially at rapper Action Bronson’s afternoon set, during which he hurled little green bottles of medicinal marijuana into the crowd [more on that in a bit]. Elsewhere, Fall Out Boy crashed 2 Chainz’s set; Sacramento hardcore outfit Trash Talk (coming to downtown L.A.’s Jubilee festival in June) turned their sun-scorched performance into a meleé; Janelle Monáe proved one-of-a-kind in her late-night Gobi set; Spiritualized led a psychedelic excursion without frills (a crazy light show) or theatrics (Jason Pierce played seated); the Postal Service and Phoenix reprised their glistening main-stage shows of last week; and all of it was made more intense because Mother Nature – that erratic Coachella regular – turned up the heat. Photographer Scott Dudelson again made the rounds, and shares this gallery.