5 things you missed at Panorama music festival Friday

NEW YORK — Little more than a month after Kanye West's Governors Ball show was rained out, a new festival from the producers of Coachella took over Randall's Island Park. Panorama kicked off its inaugural three-day event Friday, giving people plenty ways to beat the sweltering heat with shaded venues, indoor art installations and free-flowing libations. Along with dynamic sets from Alabama Shakes and Schoolboy Q, here are some other first-day highlights: 

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Arcade Fire gives scorching disapproval of Donald Trump

The Canadian alt-rockers played their first U.S. show of 2016 on the Panorama main stage Friday night, working their way through a sprawling two-hour set that pulled heavily from 2013's Reflektor and their Grammy-winning The Suburbs, and culminated in a lively, three-song David Bowie tribute with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. But it was frontman Win Butler's profanity-laced tirade against Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump that earned some of the biggest cheers. "Donald Trump will (expletive) never, ever be the President of the (expletive) United States of America," Butler said, calling the candidate a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer. "There's no (expletive) way, there's no (expletive) chance." 

DJ Khaled brings "major keys" and star power

Competing with Arcade Fire for Friday's headlining slot, but playing the festival's smallest venue, DJ Khaled packed hundreds of fans into the stifling Parlor tent. Although the show's more than 20-minute delay warranted "boos" from the miffed crowd, people quickly forgot the uncomfortable conditions when Khaled took the stage — throwing his shirt into the audience, posing for Snapchat selfies and crowing about the "major keys" to his success. After teasing surprise guests throughout his hour-long set, Khaled handily delivered with exuberant assists from T.I. (Bring Em Out, Live Your Life), and Fat Joe and Remy Ma (Lean Back, All the Way Up). 

FKA Twigs shows off alluring new live show

Since releasing her breakthrough LP1 two summers ago, FKA Twigs has harnessed her growing star power to up the ante on her already-captivating live performances. Her most ambitious, dance-heavy show to date is dubbed Radiant Me², which is also her most visually striking, featuring ornate, flowing costumes, black, hand-printed scrims, and a throng of limber, half-naked dancers. While the petite British singer's still-untitled new songs were predictably intriguing and avant-garde, her provocative, electronic-heavy spins on familiar tunes such as Pendulum, Video Girl and Glass & Patron electrified the most. 

Major Lazer throws an eye-popping dance party

Attendance was minimal for most of Friday, which led some to wonder if Panorama would struggle to fill its nighttime sets. As it turns out, most people didn't show up until Major Lazer, whose early-evening show on the main stage packed the field with howling, dancing twentysomethings. The DJ trio (consisting of Diplo, Jillionaire and Walshy Fire, all dressed in white) took turns hyping up the sweaty masses for their chaotic takes on Drake's One Dance and Desiigner's Panda, before turning the spotlight on their tireless, twerking backup dancers for dancehall favorites such as Pon de Floor and Light It Up. Sadly, Major Lazer's just-released Justin Bieber and MØ collaboration, Cold Water, was a no-show. 

Lindsey Stirling leaps from small screen to festival stage

Lindsey Stirling is one of only a handful of artists to translate a YouTube following into a successful music career, which she has supported with multiple albums and tours through the years. Performing in the late afternoon for a decent-sized crowd, most of whom were sitting down, the violin virtuoso pranced her way through a string of viral hits, including her epic Roundtable Rival and icy dubstep mashup Crystallize. The only time her set hit a false note was during Pete's Dragon collaboration Something Wild (with vocals by Andrew McMahon), which came across as a shoehorned advertisement as clips from the upcoming remake flashed behind her.