Elder stateswomen ranging from the Breeders and Bikini Kill to Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Nicks were a key part of an event that offered contemporary lights as different and excellent as Doechii and Mitski back to back.
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Gilbert Flores/Variety, Christopher Polk/Variety You know an inaugural festival has been a success when, after the temperature reached 95 degrees, humidity topped 80%… perspiration stains were so pervasive that it was the odd dry spots that looked like stains… constant 12-minute trudges back and forth between two action-packed stages threatened to sap what few excess pounds hadn’t been sweated off… and you realized that, amid those conditions, you had not sat down in more than 10 hours… and, sitting in a gridlocked lot waiting to get out, all you could think was:
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