It was a festival filled with dualities: that Charles Bradley is not a lone eagle, that J Mascis can blow out an amp and shred on acoustic within a matter of hours, that the pleasant Pacific Northwest can still get really freakin’ hot.

Setting sail to Randall’s Island.

Headliners were a story, as always, but they weren’t the story out of the fest’s inaugural three-day run at Expo Park.  

Solange, Angel Olsen, Kamaiyah, and a host of brilliant female artists took over Chicago’s Union Park this weekend.

Hundred Waters and Moses Sumney’s fourth-annual gathering reimagines what a music festival can be.

YG, TV on the Radio, and a whole lot of snowboarders get high in LA.

Radiohead, Beyoncé, and Kendrick Lamar are your headliners.

With darkness encircling the nation, what better time to get lost in our southernmost major city?

Phantogram, Bleached, Diet Cig, Jagwar Ma, and more hold off the rain outside Austin.

Dance yourself clean.

Rain wreaked a bit of havoc on the fest’s inaugural affair outside Austin, but it was an only-fitting dramatic backdrop for the likes of Explosions in the Sky, Beach House, and Thee Oh Sees.

As it enters adulthood in its eighteenth edition, the City Park fixture is more complicated, charismatic, and costumed than ever.