Willis Earl Beal won Day One.
Also… Feist was pissed at the photographers and sang about it. Purity Ring must be the biggest band in the world that I know so little about. The kids were going crazy for those two. I dug their Chinese lanterns. Outer Minds played like hungry fiends. Lower Dens sounded like they were playing one song over and over. I can’t bring myself to care about Olivia Tremor Control. The Blue Stage is where bands get respect. I hope Tim Hecker was eventually happy with the sound. Even if he wasn’t, the crowd was way into him – they were so quiet! White girls love A$AP Rocky and white boys love watching white girls bouncing to that trill shit. Japandroids had the kind of crowd they deserved this year and you could hear them singing along all the way across the park. Big K.R.I.T. didn’t get the kind of crowd he deserved. Clams Casino draped his set-up in black cloth so the audience would no idea what he was actually doing. Too much rain today. The Dirty Projectors were sublime. I can’t wait to see them someplace where there aren’t 3000 people trying to talk over the music.