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The Regrettes bring a timely message — and a timeless sound — to Coachella

When the spirited, local punk-leaning pop band the Regrettes last played a major Southern California festival, things didn't go as planned. Performing at a multi-day event last fall in San Pedro, the band's teenage lead singer, Lydia Night, was attacked midperformance by a woman in a superhero costume who managed to work her way onto the stage.

"Someone invaded my safe space in an aggressive manner and that is absolutely not OK," Night wrote on Instagram after the incident. It's believed by the band that the woman mistook Night for someone else and that she had been incorrectly led to believe Night had come between her and her boyfriend.

Last month, in the offices

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