Yesterday was awesome.

I caught Natalie Portman's Shaved Head just as they started singing "All of the chocolates / in your pocket / are gonna melt" with its Strawberry Fields-esque trimmings. Dug their cute, nautical-themed outfits and the complete sincerity they threw into lyrics seemingly scrambled at random from pop culture tropes and garnished with ooohs and reverb.

• Ifrah Farrah Ahmed knows what time it is. And by that I mean, she knows where to get her information.

After NPSH, I scrambled over to the Starbucks Stage, a.k.a. the Mural Ampitheater, for Carrie Rodriguez. My tolerance for country songs about cheatin' and being cheated on is generally pretty low, but man, if you haven't seen this woman play the violin... she can really shred. Can I say that? That a violinist shreds? Whatever, she does. Maybe I just spent too many years studying Suzuki Method.

• Carrie Rodriguez. And one of the Blues Brothers.

Ani Cordero, not to be confused with Ani DiFranco, fronts a Brooklyn-based Latin outfit called Cordero that bring a breezy indie rock feel to Latin jams sung in Spanish as often as English.

• Cordero at the Northwest Court Stage

Theirs was the most sit-down crowd I saw all day, which is a shame because their music is actually quite danceable.

U.N.I. didn't disappoint me.

• U.N.I.

They're definitely L.A. despite one of them being a Seattle native (I mean hello, talking during your performance about the fashion line you're designing?). But don't hold it against them; their set was live. They had the crowd in the palm of their hands— teens pogoing up and down hoping for free t-shirts, skeptical forty-somethings in the back nodding their heads. Their moves were tight. They worked the whole stage, and even crowd surfed. Particularly successful was what they called their "brand new dub step song." Not sure of the actual title but that's the jam right there.

• At one point, they asked all the "sneakerheads" to raise their shoes in the air.

I loved their set, but not as much as this girl did.

• Seriously. She was like, rocking out.