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Phil season may have seemed less ambitious, but he made more history closing it out with Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass” and a remarkable appearance at Coachella.

Sam Fender peered out at the crowd filling the Mojave tent at last month’s Coachella festival — possibly the highest-profile American gig to date for this 31-year-old singer and songwriter from the north of England — and said he was going to play the stupidest song he ever wrote.

At Coachella, Fender punctuated the song’s climax with a messy guitar solo that seemed to lampoon the whole idea of guitar solos.

Fender was in Los Angeles on a break from the road between the two weekends of Coachella, and though he was underselling the size of his shows — he’d been hitting theaters, not bars — you took his point about the whiplash.

Months after she scored a viral hit, the 24-year-old British singer will bring ‘Messy’ to this month’s Coachella festival.