With the Outside Lands Festival coming up this weekend, we thought it’d be awful helpful to pull together playlists for each day of the festival so you can sample to a bit of each artist before you go. I’ve tried to find representative and/or live songs for each artist to give a good idea of what you’re in store for.

With our fancy new media player, you can even hit the little play button next to any song and listen to it as a mix even without downloading anything.

Here is the first of three days. We’ll post a new playlist each day. Enjoy:

Friday:

See also:

Saturday lineup & playlist
Sunday lineup & playlist