Coachella kicked off this year with an epic first weekend. The music festival is held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. It used to be a three-day event, but Goldenvoice decided to hold it over two weekends from 2012 on. Coachella started in 1999 a few months after Woodstock while there was a ban for on-site camping that remained in effect until 2002. Since the ban was lifted, Coachella has massively grown every year featuring headliners such as Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and more. It’s become a staple event for celebrities, meaning it’s a goldmine for celeb candids and boho fashion inspiration.

We certainly wish we could be there. Maybe looking at these pictures will make you feel like you are!

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If you didn’t watch the Grammys last night, you missed a lot of performances, but — surprisingly — not a whole lot of awards. Even though the Grammys are supposed to be an award show, the program was more about throwing random artists together for collaborations, finding ways for Nicki Minaj to “out-Gaga” Gaga and honoring the fabulous Whitney Houston. When they actually presented someone with an award it was kind of confusing.

One of the first honors given out was for Best Rap Performance, which Kanye West and Jay-Z won for their song “Otis.” But neither of them were there to accept the little golden statue. Excuse me, what?! Ok, Jay-Z did just have a baby. And if I had a baby this adorable and a wife that beautiful I would probably skip out on the Grammys, too.

But where was Kanye?! He was actually nominated for two different albums – his solo project, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch the Throne, his collaboration with Jay-Z. All said, he won four awards last night, bringing his career Grammy total to 18. 18! We would think Kanye would want to be there to rub that in everyone’s face. So where was the elusive Mr. West? Naturally, we have a few highly-probable theories on the matter.

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Garnet is a student at Columbia University in New York City. She is “that person” who starts dancing at a party when everyone else is standing around, and if there were a Facebook stalking Olympics, she would be a gold medalist. She also loves cheesy 90s music, and almost died of happiness when Vanilla Ice retweeted her. Once. Follow her on Twitter @garnethenderson.

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Finally Beyonce popped! We’re still debating if she was actually carrying her own child, but either way the baby has entered the world. Last week the Twitterverse was going insane over the possibility of Beyonce going into labor, but that was a false alarm. While we’be been pondering names like Sasha Fierce, we learned last night that Beyonce and Jay-Z settled on Ivy Blue Carter.

But wait! This morning, Giuliana Rancic tweeted that the name is Blue Ivy Carter. Good because the other way sounded a little off. We are so excited about this little nugget! She’s already the coolest baby ever and has a life that we can only dream about. Hopefully she will have Beyonce’s looks and both of their talent. This baby is going to be a superstar!

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Beyonce and Jay-Z’s little nugget is going to be super spoiled, and we’re admittedly a bit jealous. Not only is this baby going to be extremely beautiful and talented, but it’s going to have everything. From really high tech toys to plush bedding, baby Bey-Z already has us envious. While I can only imagine what that nursery is going to look like, I can already guarantee it’s going to be way cooler than any room we’ve ever slept in.

Check out some things that we imagine will be graced by this child’s presence:

It’s a well-known fact that musicians are pros at making music, and then retiring (or saying they’re retiring and then coming back. I’m looking at you Jay-Z). I’m totally fine with never hearing another 98 Degrees album, but I got upset when I heard the White Stripes were finito. Some artist’s careers end by tragic means (RIP Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson), and some just make tragic music (Right Said Fred).

Then there are the artists who want to “branch out” from music for movies. Mark Wahlberg started making movies and was never heard on the radio again. And then there’s this guy. He was a music GOD, and then decided to trade in the mic for the big screen. But don’t count him out just yet, because we may be hearing some new hits from him very soon…

There are lots of reasons why different singers and bands collaborate with each other: to gain crossover potential, to feature an up-and-coming artist, or simply just for the sake of name-dropping. These are all pretty standard reasons why it’s hard to find a hit track nowadays that isn’t “featuring” someone else. And while most collaborations usually turn out pretty decently and some even become defining songs of a generation (ex. ANYTHING J. Lo or Ashanti did with Ja Rule back in the early 2000′s), some music collaborations just leave us all wondering “…why?”

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But then again, no collaboration could be weirder than this.

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How many times a week a day do you Google yourself? An embarrassing amount, right? Almost as embarrassing as the amount of time I spend diagnosing myself with fatal diseases on WebMD. But when we’re not googling our own name and Facebook stalking our frenemies, we’re googling (and ogling) guys. Like, a lot. So we wanted to do a totally scientific study (please note that we did this research while also doing research on the effects of Four Loko on a professional work day) on the most googled guys on the internet. And we were SHOCKED by the results. Like apparently no one else is as into Barry Manilow as I am. But a lot of people are really into Ne-Yo. Who knew?! Now you do!