Photos: Gov Ball Throws An Excellent Party On Day 2

The Governors Ball Music Festival had a day for the ages yesterday. The weather, once again, was perfect. The crowds were massive but manageable, with the only ludicrously long lines purely voluntary (e.g., to eat cookie dough). And on all four stages throughout the sprawling grounds, the many and varied acts delivered high-energy sets that made the people go wild.

There's no way to see everything at an event like this—there are always at least two acts playing at the same time—but many of the day's highlights took place hours before headliners Phoenix and Childish Gambino took the stage. Car Seat Headrest, for example, killed it at the smallish Big Apple Stage, ripping through a set taken almost entirely from last year's excellent Teens of Denial LP. The whole set, especially "Destroyed by Hippie Powers" and "Unforgiving Girl," provoked a gleefully rambunctious mosh pit in the dust.

Rae Sremmurd drew a far larger crowd to the semi-enclosed Bacardi Stage than the organizers seemed to anticipate, a crushing situation which caused dozens of fans to be "airlifted" out through the front pit by security guards and whoever else was willing to help haul the sweaty bodies over the barrier. Brothers Slim and Swae were amazing though, leaping from the light towers, jumping into the sea of kids, and tearing around the stage while blasting through bangers like "No Type," "Come Get Her" and "Black Beatles."

Rufus du Sol, those endearingly romantic Aussies, threw an equally appreciated (if less harrowing) dance party at the Bacardi Stage, with fans shouting along and over-emoting to such infectiously boppy tracks as "Until the Sun Needs to Rise," "Like an Animal" and the epic "Innerbloom."

And earlier on the main Gov Ball stage, Dua Lipa belted out a poppy set to an small but adoring crowd, a reminder that one of the great things about festivals is witnessing the ecstatic fans of musicians who you've never heard of. Every band or singer, it seems, is someone-out-there's favorite.

Today is final day of the festival, featuring Parquet Courts, Mac Demarco, AIR, Wiz Khalifa, and Tool.