Roots Picnic

Sat., June 5, 2 p.m., $66, Festival Pier, Penn's Landing, 201 S. Columbus Blvd., livenation.com.

by Patrick Rapa

hip-hop/rock/festival

This is our Bonnaroo, people. Our Lollapalooza, our Coachella, our Sasquatch. Except we've got our hometown heroes running the show. Only three years in, The Roots Picnic is this city's flagship music event, an annual all-day music fest that gets everybody moving in near-unison to hip-hop and rock, and leaves Festival Pier aswirl in empty water bottles and dance sweat. As usual, the steep price tag ($66, four tickets for $198) is probably what keeps the thing from selling out until the very last minute. It's not the lineup: Joining ?uesto and co. are Vampire Weekend, Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface, Clipse, Mayer Hawthorne, The Very Best, John Legend, Pattern Is freaking Movement and a bunch more either playing the monstrous main stage or the gloriously air-conditioned side stage inside the big tent. Guaranteed unforgettable.