First City Festival Photos – Beck, Phantogram, The National, Cults, Geographer, Lo-Fang, and More

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Photos by Leopold Ruiz

The weekend before Labor Day, the second annual First City Festival took place at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The line-up included headliners like Beck, The National, Phantogram, Geographer, as well as performances from a bunch of other mostly indie rock artists including Cults, Best Coast, Liars, Tokyo Police Club, Lo-Fang, Sleepy Sun, Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr., Liars, and many others.

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Beck rocks out during his classic track, "Devil's Haircut".
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Sarah Barthel and Phantogram at First City.
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Beck and his backup band converge during "Loser"
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The National's Matt Berninger on stage at First City.

 

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The National's guitarist Bryce Dressner.
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Geographer's cellist Nathan Blaz on stage.
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Geographer's Michael Deni performing at First City.
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Cults' singer Madeline Follin on stage at First City.
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Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr. playing the sax.