Where and when: Pyramid Stage, 12.30pm

Dress code: Strictly denim

What happened: After a decade together, this Philadelphia band are enjoying something of a moment thanks to new album Lost in the Dream, the secret being the collision of two seemingly opposing tendencies. On the one hand, they're steeped in the bruised idealism and highway vistas of blue-collar rock (the band are literally wearing blue collars and the keyboard-player sports a bandana that screams 1985), with a harmonica solo, saxophonist and frequent Springsteen whoops. At their most mundane, early on in this slow-burning set, they could be boilerplate Americana from any time in the last 40 years. But they also like space-rock guitar jams and crisp motorik rhythms, and the two threads knot together beautifully on their biggest song Red Eyes (Born to Run hits the autobahn), revealing a common urge towards escapism and wide horizons. The sight of the sun for the first time today enhances the second half's sense of ecstatic ascent. During the climactic Come to the City, frontman Adam Granduciel grabs a camera and turns it on the biggest audience he's ever played to — a snapshot of a well-earned moment of triumph.

High point: Come to the City: Dylan rewriting Bowie's Heroes

Low point: The excessively gentle opening run

In a tweet: Everyman meets spaceman