Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival

Outside Lands Update: Set Times Schedule

Outside Lands Kicks Off In Golden Gate Park

Outside Lands Day 2: Can't Find My Way Home

Outside Lands Photos: Tom Petty, Lupe Fiasco, Ben Harper and More

Outside Lands Day 3: Andrew Bird Rocks, Crowd Plays Guitar Hero

Outside Lands, News & Booze, Rock Make Street Fest: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Outside Lands Day 3: Andrew Bird is Good, Jack Johnson is Charming, and Wilco Still Plays Too Long

Why Outside Lands Looks Juicy to Big Promoters

By Peter Jamison We reported this week on the ungainly turf war that has erupted among bureaucrats and entrepreneurs over the future of Outside Lands, the popular three-day music festival whose inaugural run was overseen in August by Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment. Despite the event' ... More >>

Rock the Bells Announces Lineup

EKAphotography Not to be outdone by the massive, monumental Outside Lands lineup, hip-hop's annual extravaganza Rock the Bells has announced its lineup as well: Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley,The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, House of Pain featuring La Coka Nostra, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kw ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

EKAphotography Not to be outdone by the massive, monumental Outside Lands lineup, hip-hop's annual extravaganza Rock the Bells has announced its lineup as well: Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley,The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, House of Pain featuring La Coka Nostra, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kw ... More >>

Outside Lands Ouster?

City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.

Outside Lands Festival Adds Marquee Names to Its Lineup: Wilco, Manu Chao, and Beck, and many more

City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.

Track(s) of the Day: New Dodos

As Pitchfork announced this morning, local boys Dodos are heading off any leaks from their upcoming album Time to Die by streaming the songs early themselves. The record is set to be released digitally on July 28 (if you wanna wait for the physical copy, that's out September 15), but you can hear th ... More >>

No Beastie Boys at Outside Lands: MCA Has Cancer

Bad news from the Beastie Boys camp this morning. Adam "MCA" Yauch has been diagnosed with cancer--he has a tumor in his left parotid (salivary) gland. The good news is doctors found the cancerous tumor early, it doesn't sound to have spread to other parts of his body, and surgeons and are prepared ... More >>

Outside Lands Asks Public for Headliner Suggestions

Now that the Beastie Boys have pulled out of Outside Lands, announcing the bad news that MCA has to undergo treatment for cancer of the parotid (salivary) gland, the festival has turned to the public to ask what artists should be considered as replacements for Sunday night's big finale. Outside Land ... More >>

Tenacious D the Sunday Night Headliner for Outside Lands

​Tenacious D have been announced as the Sunday night replacement act for the Outside Lands festival. The final spot for the August 30 concert was supposed to go to the Beastie Boys--but, as many of you'll recall, that group had to cancel all shows when Adam "MCA" Yauch was diagnosed with cancer a ... More >>

Chron Disses, Praises Outside Lands

"Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."

Outside Lands Picks Part 1: Five Ways to a Fitter You

"Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."

The Outside Lands alternative: In the Pines

"Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."

Baseball, Aggro Cyclists, Rock Music Fans -- Is It a Perfect Storm of Friday Night Traffic?

May the force be with you​Sorry for the lame headline cliche -- it's Friday afternoon, people. Normally that's good news. But if you count yourself in the pariah caste of San Franciscans who still commute by automobile, this evening may be a little less pleasant than usual. Public transit riders - ... More >>

Outside Lands Day 1, Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Black Joe Lewis

Chritopher VictorioTom Jones​Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Incubus, Black Joe Lewis & the HoneybearsOutside LandsFriday, Aug. 28, 2009Better than: Anything else you could be doing in Golden Gate Park on a Friday night.The opening day of the second annual Outside Lands was, overall, what I'd call a ple ... More >>

Outside Lands Day Two: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta

EKAphotography​Outside Lands Day 2: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, & more, Saturday, August 20, 2009.Better Than: sitting in the park, waiting for you.The first day of Outside Lands was a huge freakin' success, especially if you stayed at the Twin ... More >>

Dead Prez Boots Riley Tonight @Black Dot

EKAphotographyRBGz at YBG: dead prez @G4G's solar-powered concert​ Outside Lands, Shmoutside Lands. The hundreds of folks who came out to Yerba Buena Gardens to see dead prez and Mistah F.A.B. perform for free yesterday may have gotten a better deal than the tens of thousands who shelled out $90 ... More >>

Summer Music Festival Spoof

www.collegehumor.com​On the eve of the big summer festival season--when it's only a matter of days, or tweets, before Outside Lands spills its lineup--CollegeHumor.com has made one of the best spoofs of the music weekender scene that we've seen. From the lineup (featuring "bearded jam band; f ... More >>

Bay Area Music Links: Outside Lands Lineup Leaked

Love and Happiness: Al Green's on the Outside Lands lineup​Outside Lands lineup accidentally revealed in latest issue of Spin. [SF Appeal] Local faves The Dodos record at Daytrotter with Magik*Magik Orchestra. [Daytrotter] Big tours hitting the Bay Area this summer include Lady Gaga, Justin Bie ... More >>

Outside Lands lineup leaked in both Rolling Stone and Spin

Phoenix at Outside Lands: It's Leak-omania​This is almost too neat to be an accident. The Outside Lands 2010 lineup was supposed to be a secret until tomorrow, but both Spin and Rolling Stone broke the two-day festival's headliners in issues that dropped last week.SFist has the full run-down on th ... More >>

Exclusive: Outside Lands Full Lineup Unveiled

Without any further ado, the full line up for San Francisco's own Outside Lands Music Festival, presented in a very endearing video format brought to by The Eclectic Method.The lineup is not too shabby. Who we're most excited about? Kings of Leon, The Strokes, My Morning Jacket, Gogol Bordello, Ca ... More >>

The Ghosts of Outside Lands Past

Now that this year's Outside Lands lineup has been released in full and stayed true to its lil-bit-hippie-lil-but-hip-hop roots and the folk vs. funk vibe, will you be forking over some coin when the tickets go on sale tomorrow? How do you think this year's lineup fares with those of previous years? ... More >>

Outside Lands Goes on Sale Today. Behold These Tasty Food and Music Pairings

Tamara PalmerPica Pica Maize Kitchen's cachapas: Goes great with Colombian rock.​While we're both a music and food writer by trade, we were sent to Outside Lands last year with a specific mission to eat, and it was refreshing to have so many truly good edible distractions that we barely cared ... More >>

Disappointing Outside Lands lineup selling lots of tickets

Christopher VictorioNo, he's not gonna be there this year​ Disappointed Outside Lands fan, we share your woe: The lineup this year -- at least concerning headliners -- just doesn't woo us like it has in years past. Not to slam the bands at the top of the bill. My Morning Jacket, Furthur, Al Green ... More >>

Outside Lands Promoters 'Scared to Death,' Sonny & the Sunsets sign to Fat Possum

Sonny and the Sunsets at Bottom of the Hill last year​Outside Lands promoters are "scared to death" of the soft economy and bad concert season, which is why they cut the festival back to two days. Contrary to what we heard, promoters say tickets are selling slowly. From SF Gate:Organizers said the ... More >>

Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled

Sonny and the Sunsets at Bottom of the Hill last year​Outside Lands promoters are "scared to death" of the soft economy and bad concert season, which is why they cut the festival back to two days. Contrary to what we heard, promoters say tickets are selling slowly. From SF Gate:Organizers said the ... More >>

Nas and Damian Marley, Outside Lands' Weak Lineup, and the Unfashionable Mister Loveless

​So Nas and Damian Marley set out to make a rap-reggae record. It's not a terribly novel idea, but given the pair's credentials, the disc sounds at least promising, right? Don't spark that spliff just yet: Sean Fennessey writes in our print edition this week that Nas and Marley's finished product, ... More >>

Food and Wine at Outside Lands: You Should Probably Be Excited

J. BirdsallAztec Chocolate Cupcakes from Mission Minis​Just imagine: Al Green could chow down on a mint It's-It ice cream sandwich this weekend in Golden Gate Park. Those brothers from Kings of Leon might try a Maverick's pulled-pork sandwich or a gourmet cupcake from Mission Minis. Maybe Cat Powe ... More >>

Outside Lands Day Two: Al Green, The Devil Makes Three, and A Mass of Humanity

​Outside Lands Day Two Sunday, August 15, 2010 Better than: watching bootleg videos of the gig on YouTube at home by yourself. Open-air music festivals are as much about atmosphere as they are bands. At Outside Lands Day Two, this meant The People -- aka the plebs, the great unwashe ... More >>

Outside Lands, Day Two: More People and More Fun

The right side of the crowd during Phoenix's "1901"​The first thing we noticed about the second day of the Outside Lands festival was all the people. We're still waiting on official figures to back this up, but here are our impressions: On Saturday afternoon on the polo fields felt laid back, with ... More >>

The Top Five Covers of Outside Lands 2010

Christopher VictorioAl Green's soul medley on Sunday had us wearing a stupid grin.​Of all the things we'll remember about this year's Outside Lands festival -- the sun breaking through the fog during Al Green's set, the gaudy costumes of Empire of the Sun, and the incessant oonce oonce from the He ... More >>

Outside Lands Will Be Three Days Again This Year -- But Who Will Headline?

Outside Lands in the sunshine (pleasant sigh).​Outside Lands avatar Ranger Dave took to Twitter this morning to announce the dates for this year's festival: August 12-14. The numbers savvy among you will have already figured this out, but we'll spell it out for the rest: For Year Four, Outside Lan ... More >>

Buffalo Springfield Announces Tour, Fox Theater Oakland Dates

So does this kill our Outside Lands prediction? Buffalo Springfield, the seminal California folk-rock band that helped launched the careers of Neil Young and Steven Stills, plans to tour this summer, after a one-off reunion show last fall at Young's Bridge School Benefit here in the Bay Area. For th ... More >>

Outside Lands 2011: Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Deadmau5, and More

Three days of this for 2011!​As promised, Outside Lands' avatar Ranger Dave announced the lineup this morning for the festivals fourth incarnation, to be held August 12-14, 2011. Your headliners: Phish, Muse, and Arcade Fire. Also playing: the Black Keys, Deadmau5, MGMT, Girl Talk, Decemberists, a ... More >>

Outside Lands Announces Local Food and Wine Lineup w/ Flour Water, Ritual Coffee, More

Christopher VictorioBecause this will make you hungry.​ Outside Lands has always made an effort to bring in highlights of the local food and wine scene to festival goers. Every year the offerings get a little bigger, and this year's festival is no different. For its return to a three-day forma ... More >>

Taste the Smug: Feeling Fine at an Outside Lands Pairing Event

Hard times at an Outside Lands pairing event.​ It wasn't until my second glass of Chardonnay, while remembering my drive to Scribe Winery in the Prius, taking Instagram photographs of beautiful scenery on my iPhone, and savoring Korean BBQ from Namu, that I was reminded of the South Park episo ... More >>

5 Things to Like About the Outside Lands Festival Schedule

Outside Lands: Now without (hopefully) the painful decision-making!​ The schedule for this year's Outside Lands festival hit the web earlier today. But you can stop gritting your teeth and clutching the edge of that desk: Although many festival schedules are an exercise in painful decision-mak ... More >>

Links: Classical's Cafe Revolution, Bay Bridged's Regional Bias, and the Outside Lands 2011 Poster

​ Classical music moves out of the concert hall and into the cafe. [The Bay Citizen] Local music blog the Bay Bridged, now five years old (!), is holding its annual fundraiser/birthday party this weekend. [The Bay Bridged]

Is Muse Playing at the Rickshaw Stop on Friday? Facebook Says Yes, Promoter Says No

Muse: Apparently not playing the Rickshaw on Friday.​ Those of you watching the lineup for this year's Outside Lands night shows may have noticed a little bit of interesting verbiage for Friday's bill at the Rickshaw Stop. The lineup is advertised as Vetiver, Extra Classic and "surprise specia ... More >>

Outside Lands Food Gets Even Better

W. Blake GrayThe huarache Alambre from El Huarache Loco​Outside Lands last year had what might have been the best lineup of food purveyors ever at a music festival -- not hard because at most big outdoor shows, people are happy if they can even get food. This year the music lineup is signifi ... More >>

The Food at Outside Lands Is Gonna Be Even Better This Year

The huarache Alambre from El Huarache Loco, which you can eat at Outside Lands this year.​ Ostensibly one goes to Outside Lands for the music, right? I mean, spending three days in Golden Gate Park amid throngs of crazy young ravers, rock dads, children of rock dads, hipster trash, and jaded a ... More >>

Thirteen Lesser-Known Artists You Should See at Outside Lands 2011

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: tUnE-yArDs is one act you shouldn't miss at Outside Lands​Outside Lands Must-Sees: You're obviously going to catch the headliner sets at this weekend's Outside Lands Festival, so we'll assume you're already more than familiar with Arcade Fire, Muse ... More >>

Missed Outside Lands? People-Watch With Us!

Christopher Victorio​So maybe you missed Outside Lands, or maybe you were there but don't remember any of it. It happens. Those of us who were there (and mostly conscious) know that it was an overwhelming spectacle of sounds, tastes, and, of course, crazy only-in-San-Francisco outfits. If yo ... More >>

Graphic: How Does Outside Lands Compare to the World's Biggest Music Festivals?

​ Lots of people, including us, think that this past year's Outside Lands Music Festival was the best one yet. But how does the four-year-old event in S.F.'s Golden Gate Park compare to the world's biggest music festivals? Hint: We have much better wine, and we care about Foursquare a lot mor ... More >>