I went to NYC's newest music festival, and it's the future of live music

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Panorama (16 of 25)

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I made the trek to Randall's Island in New York City this past weekend for Panorama Festival, the city's newest three-day music festival put together by Goldenvoice, the promoters behind Coachella.

With temperatures topping 100 degrees and a lineup featuring big headliners like Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, and Kendrick Lamar, I expected the weekend to be ??  - both physically and performance-wise.

The most noticeable part of the festival, however, was a structural addition I didn't expect to either notice or care about: the massive video screens attached to both the Panorama Stage (main stage) and the Pavilion Stage (second-largest stage). 

Here was my experience of Panorama festival and what impressed me the most: