Really, though, I’ve basically accepted the fact that at the beginning of every year, the same 150 bands agree to play every middle- and top-tier music festival with slightly differing fine details, and that, unless one particular music festival has a really special artist no one else has that you’re dying to see, all these festivals are exactly the same, and you could probably put every major festival on a dartboard, throw a dart at random, and have roughly the same experience at any one it happens to hit. Whoa, no way, you got Big Grams? Father John Misty too? …Wait, what, AND a main headlining slot from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis? Someone dial 9-1-1, I’m about to die of shock. Festivals have become so prevalent and, for the most part, homogenized in music culture that you can practically sing along to the announcement of any major festival the past couple years. These annual ‘Artists to See at Certain Festival’ lists are something of a yearly ritual for me, but at times they can feel a bit like the written scriptures of Captain Obvious.