This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at American chapter.

All Things Go put on another successful indie music festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion last month, featuring headliners Lorde, Mitski, Bleachers, King Princess and more. This was the second year of the festival’s elevated one-day experience, making the jump from the original smaller, kickback style event behind Union Market. With the dissolution of popular DMV festivals like Sweetlife, Trillectro and Landmark, All Things Go is in the perfect spot to become one of Merriweather’s signature festivals and the area’s “fall classic,” as it calls itself.

Even with competing festivals like Oceans Calling in Ocean City, Maryland and Dover, Delaware’s well-established Firefly Festival, fans came all the way down to Columbia, Maryland from Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York to wait in the rain for their favorite artists. Considering the tight lineup, the venue was just cozy enough to walk back and forth from set to set, grab a bite to eat from the venue’s updated menu or check out pop-up booths like Byrdland Records or HeadCount.

Together, this year’s All Things Go Festival acts, like lineups in the past, made up what I imagine the inside of Phoebe Bridgers’ mind feels like. The festival’s formula can be broken down as so: 20% pop performance (Bleachers and a little bit of Lorde), 40% indie-almost-folk boy bands (Hippo Campus, Peach Pit, and Goth Babe) and another 40% of make-you-cry-in-a-good-way artists (Mitski, Lucy Dacus, and Faye Webster, and a lot of Lorde).

If you didn’t get a chance to get out to All Things Go this year, be sure to keep the festival on your radar for next year. See below for photos of standout sets and artist portraits from the 2022 All Things Go Festival.