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April 24, 2012
Top Five Reasons Outside Lands Is Better Than Coachella
See also: Our complete Coachella coverage Coachella 2012 has come and gone; now it's time to brag about our awesome tans and how we lost count of all of the onstage mindfucks. But while we Nor-Cal-ers try to switch our brains back to reality, let us also explain why we're really looking forward to ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Reactions From the Twitterverse
The Outside Lands lineup was announced this morning, which means music fans all over the world will spend a good chunk of today discussing it on Twitter. This year's lineup -- which includes Neil Young, Skrillex, Metallica, Beck, Jack White, the Foo Fighters, and many, many more -- seems to have pro ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Missed Outside Lands? People-Watch With Us!
Christopher VictorioSo 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 >>
Blogs
August 10, 2011
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 LandsOutside 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 >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
Outside Lands Food Gets Even Better
W. Blake GrayThe huarache Alambre from El Huarache LocoOutside 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 >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
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]
Blogs
August 2, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
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 >>
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March 7, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
August 16, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 16, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 16, 2010
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 >>
Music
August 11, 2010
Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled
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 >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Food and Wine at Outside Lands: You Should Probably Be Excited
J. BirdsallAztec Chocolate Cupcakes from Mission MinisJust 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 >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Outside Lands Promoters 'Scared to Death,' Sonny & the Sunsets sign to Fat Possum
Sonny and the Sunsets at Bottom of the Hill last yearOutside 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 >>
Blogs
June 4, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
May 31, 2010
Outside Lands lineup leaked in both Rolling Stone and Spin
Phoenix at Outside Lands: It's Leak-omaniaThis 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 >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Bay Area Music Links: Outside Lands Lineup Leaked
Love and Happiness: Al Green's on the Outside Lands lineupOutside 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 >>
Blogs
May 11, 2010
Summer Music Festival Spoof
www.collegehumor.comOn 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 >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
August 30, 2009
Outside Lands Day Two: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta
EKAphotographyOutside 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 >>
Blogs
August 29, 2009
Outside Lands Day 1, Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Black Joe Lewis
Chritopher VictorioTom JonesPearl 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 >>
Blogs
August 28, 2009
Baseball, Aggro Cyclists, Rock Music Fans -- Is It a Perfect Storm of Friday Night Traffic?
May the force be with youSorry 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 >>
Music
August 26, 2009
Outside Lands Picks Part 1: Five Ways to a Fitter You
May the force be with youSorry 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 >>
Music
August 26, 2009
The Outside Lands alternative: In the Pines
May the force be with youSorry 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 >>
Blogs
August 25, 2009
Chron Disses, Praises Outside Lands
"Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."
Blogs
August 6, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
July 21, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
July 20, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
July 14, 2009
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 >>
News
January 7, 2009
SF Weekly Letters
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 >>
Blogs
December 25, 2008
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 >>
News
December 24, 2008
Outside Lands Ouster?
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Blogs
August 25, 2008
Outside Lands, News & Booze, Rock Make Street Fest: Your Monday Morning Hangover
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Blogs
August 25, 2008
Outside Lands Day 3: Andrew Bird is Good, Jack Johnson is Charming, and Wilco Still Plays Too Long
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Blogs
August 24, 2008
Outside Lands Day 2: Can't Find My Way Home
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Blogs
August 24, 2008
Outside Lands Day 3: Andrew Bird Rocks, Crowd Plays Guitar Hero
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Blogs
August 23, 2008
Outside Lands Kicks Off In Golden Gate Park
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Blogs
August 14, 2008
Outside Lands Update: Set Times Schedule
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
Music
March 26, 2008
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.
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