Insider's guide to this weekend's Wonderfront Festival

The vibe: Festival organizers this year mostly focused each day around a genre.

• Friday is hip hop and EDM day — headliners Kaytranada and JID follow a day of T-Pain, Channel Tres, Bakar, Paris Texas and others.
• Saturday is all interest rock and pop — Weezer and Dominik Fike headline after a day of sets including Carly Rae Jepsen, Action Bronson, Briston Maroney, Milky Chance, Poolside and Proxima Parada.
• Sunday is a rootsy, Americana, party vibe headlined by Beck and Mt. Joy with standouts like The Roots, Marcus King, Steel Pulse, Natasha Bedingfield, Fruit Bats, Samm Henshaw and Mapache.

How it works: Music Box is hosting $35 aftershows each night — Channel Tres on Friday, Poolside on Saturday and Rayland Baxter and Fruit Bats on Sunday.

• Wonderfront is offering two, free stages in Seaport Village, after Port of San Diego waived park permit fees for the event.
• Great local bands like The Routine, Half Hour Late, Band of Gringos and Spacehall Sound Machine are playing in the festival or on the community stages (or both).

• Neighboring Ruocco Park has free activities from noon to 10 pm each day, too.

Zoom in: Wonderfront built a dance-club tent in the center of the grounds.

• Future is Color — the San Diego design firm that blew up last year with a Barrio Logan jazz night that grew into dance parties — is taking over the dance-club tent Sunday.
• The festival is hosting a Friday night afterparty at Malibu Farms.

My thought bubble: Setting the big names aside, I'm carving out time to see Paris Texas, Proxima Parada, Mapache and Samm Henshaw.