Hangout Music Festival is like MTV's Spring Break for the current generation; it's a music festival full of some of the biggest names in the game on a beach in Alabama, where everyone is all smiles and in swim gear. This year, Beck, the Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, Jack U, the Zac Brown Band, Skrillex, Foster The People, Paramore, Spoon, TV On The Radio, Major Lazer and more graced the festivals' stages.

Founders Shaul Zislin and A.J Niland came up with the idea for the Hangout Music Festival while walking along the beach together in Gulf Shores. They wanted a festival to continue to bring people down to the area after being hard hit by the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. That first year saw 12,000 attendees with a small line-up including The Roots, Trey Anastasia, Michael Franti, Alison Kraus, and the Zac Brown Band.

As always, the vibe exuded an easygoing, southern beachy good time. To convey this, they chose to symbolize their festival with a shaka gesture, better known as a surfer’s symbol for saying it’s all cool. Scroll down for a glimpse of this year's fest happenings.

All photos by Josh Rhinehart