Bow down: Beyonce was the reigning queen of Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.

Since inception in 2012, it's been nothing but smooth sailing for the Budweiser Made In America festival. Until Sunday evening, anyway.

Front man Britt Daniel took the stage in an all-white outfit, spitting lyrics and strumming his guitar like a seasoned pro (which of course he is), while the rest of the band contributed solid grooves.

It would take some investigating to see what 28-year-old New Orleans native Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and 65-year-old Charles Bradley, born in Gainesville, Fla., have in common beyond music. That said, the roots in deep, abiding soul, gutsy R&B, and slippery, jazzy funk indigenous to each man's area of origin would be enough to create binding ties - and to sell out South Street's Theater of the Living Arts on a humid Saturday.

Following Danny Brown's outrageously fun set at the Liberty Stage is another artist known for her "outrageous" creations: Canadian artist Grimes, who blanketed the late afternoon with trippy, surrealist tunes, drawn mostly from her 2012 record Visions.

Things are beginning to heat up here at Made in America, as crowds pour in and temperatures rise. But theres free water, cold beer, and more importantly, quirky, weirdo vibes, this time courtesy of Detroit rapper Danny Brown.

It was an all-Philly affair on the Skate Park Stage in the early afternoon, with bouncy pop song of Cruisr (recently signed to Vagrant records) giving way to Nothing, Dominic Palermos dream-pop project, which debuted on Upper Darby metal label Relapse Records this year with Guilty of Everything.

Were backkkkk! Its day two at Made in America, and things promise to be hotter, sweatier, and generally more awesome.

"We've been waiting all summer for this, Made In America," Kenny Vasoli of the Philadelphia "nu-hula" smooth-grooves band Vacationer said as he got ready to kick off the action on the Liberty stage on Sunday.

Sunday began smartly with Brooklyn indie rockers MisterWives. They played an exotic brand of rock with subtle hints of Romany and Japanois.

Back in 2012, the biggest electronic dance music (EDM) act at this weekend's Budweiser Made in America festival on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway - he plays on Sunday, just before closing act Kings of Leon - pulled in $22 million. That put him atop Forbes magazine's inaugural list of Electronic Cash Kings, which ranks the highest-paid DJs in the world.

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Bow down: Beyonce was the reigning queen of Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.