the xx

The four-day festival takes over Chicagoā€™s lakefront park and turns up the volume thanks to Ryan Adams, Arcade Fire, Muse, Ron Gallo, Warpaint, Cage the Elephant, and others.

Templesā€™ James Bagshaw

Templesā€™ frontman/guitarist loves Gretches. For most of the bandā€™s set, he bounced between a 12-string Chet Atkins Country Gentleman and this 1963 Tennesseanā€”including for the closer ā€œShelter Song.ā€

PG dives into gear details with Phoenix, Warpaint, Third Eye Blind, Moon Taxi, the Shins, and others playing the massive Atlanta festival.

Shaky Knees 2017

In the festival's fifth year, Atlantaā€™s Centennial Olympic Parkā€”home to the 1996 Summer Olympicsā€”was again home to the 3-day festival that saw Cage the Elephant, Phoenix, The Shins, Ron Gallo, Car Seat Headrest, Warpaint, The xx, Pixies, and others brought rock and roll to the 404ā€™s downtown district.