Meritocracy apparently doesn’t factor into Coachella’s unique temporary housing complex in the v.v.i.p. area. Back there, where white picket fences set apart picturesque RV dressing rooms for every act on the festival roster (each of which is custom decorated by a team of Coachella art experts to appeal to the individual pecadillos of each performer — perceived or otherwise), everyone from Kid Sister to My Morning Jacket to Aphex Twin gets a temporary berth. But not all are created equal.

If you have the right all-access bracelet, you (like certain Soundboard operatives) could observe that reggae legend Linton Kwesi Johnson, French dance duo Justice and Lollapallooza founder Perry Ferrell are confined to tiny-ass dressing rooms that measure no more than 125 square feet.

Not so headliner Roger Waters. Sure, dude may be the most recognizable face of the late, great Pink Floyd - a dyspeptic dinosaur rocker whose presence as a headliner at indie music’s preeminent platform many industry observers have questioned. Waters has his own Branch Davidian-esque compound in the backstage area, a larger than usual staging area cordoned off by tasteful wicker fencing, covered by an attractive pointed tent and bounded on one side by a gigantic RV (Soundboard couldn’t get in but the thing is at least 700 square feet).

–Chris Lee