Twenty-eight tracks tonight, opening with The Weakerthans, Built to Spill, and Girl Scout setting a literate, guitar-driven tone. Dinosaur Jr. roughed up the edges before Embrace slotted in with "Road to Nowhere" — the band's first new material in four years, released ahead of their 30th-anniversary UK headline tour — and Ratboys brought things back to scrappier footing.

Michigander, Twin Fin, Circle Change, and Great Grandpa kept the momentum going. Twin Fin's "South of San Francisco" came out via Ineffable Records, Billboard's top independent reggae label, giving the track a looser, island-tinged pull against the rest of the set.

Mei Semones' "Dangomushi" is named for a small pill bug she made friends with in the park, alongside a bird and a mouse — a tiny, specific little world set to pizzicato guitar and strings.

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