The second day of 2015’s 80/35 will not be a day forgotten any time soon.

Despite a little bit of heat, the entire day was filled with memorable sets all the way from the evening’s headliner down to the smallest local band. It doesn’t happen often in the festival world, but it just felt like one of those where every single band was putting on a show at their peak potential.

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The most memorable: Without any doubt to any of the attendees—aside from a select group of parents or grand parents with young children in the crowd—Run The Jewels stole the show. Killer Mike and El-P brought this euphoric energy to the stage that no one else, maybe in all of hip-hop, can match.

“Crowd of the year, Des Moines,” Mike exclaimed mid-way through the set.

Those two continuously brought energy, despite fighting humid evening temperatures [RTJ’s set started at 7 p.m.]. The crowd bounced, yelled, danced and simply embraced RTJ and everything the duo had to offer. There probably isn’t an act in this country–more or less Des Moines–who can match that energy.

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Coolest local act: Christopher The Conquered runs away with this title. His piano-based pop-infused rock and roll numbers took the crowd by storm. But it’s not necessarily his music that wins him this title—he knew how to work the crowd. He went into the crowd, engaging them to be his “choir” during one section of a song, getting most to play along. It culminated in a furry of crowd surfers, including Christopher [seen below], and was just a blast to watch.

Now this is how it's done, Des Moines. pic.twitter.com/mNUa7ZZODB

— Matthew Leimkuehler (@callinghomematt) July 11, 2015

I’m going to dig deeper into this Des Moines artist’s music, and you should too. This video may be a good place to start:

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Best find: I stumbled across two fantastic finds across the side stages. First is an Iowa City band called The Olympics. There’s an interesting dichotomy going on with this group: it’s like the tenacity of The Fall of Troy, mixed with the beauty of Manchester Orchestra, mixed with the indie vigor of something like Interpol. It’s cool.

The second find was Boh Doran. Her music is simple and addictive piano-based pop with soulful melodies. Although she played at noon—when a lot of festival goers had yet to make it back to the grounds—I found her set to be totally entrancing. People say pop artists need “it”; well, Boh Doran has “it” and then some. Be on the look out for her in the future.

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And Weezer: You know what you’re getting with Weezer. It’s a good rock band playing their good rock songs to a good crowd. And that’s what it was. They sounded great, they engaged the crowd and it was simply a fitting way to end a great weekend of music.

Final thoughts: This year’s festival was driven by discovery of new artists. Sure, the main stage provided staple names of amazing talent, but there wasn’t any shortage of up-and-coming talent on the side stages and that isn’t always true at festivals. There was a good balance between the top of the bill and the bottom and not a boring minute from start until finish.

You can read our first day coverage here.