It’s finally here. Though the months of anticipation, Outside Lands-related posts and Radiohead worship have been fun here at the Stranger Dance, it’ll be nice to get this bitch done with, so we can have some fun. So, in the spirit of community, good citizenship and milking this high-traffic cow one last time, we present the Stranger Dance Outside Lands Survival Kit. This will (hopefully) be everything you need to survive the day, minus the tickets, money, booze and drugs … if you’re into that type of thing.

Join us, won’t you, after the jump.

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As promised, I will continue to bring you some of the best songs in commercials. In this Cadillac ad, M. Ward lends his assistance with “Here Comes the Sun Again.”

Got a song from an ad stuck in your head but can’t figure out who the artist is? Leave a comment and Vague Panther will be happy to figure it out for you.

While the folks at APE Concerts haven’t announced the schedule for the Outside Lands Festival [Update: full schedule now available here], most of the bands involved have which night they’re playing on their respective sites. So we did a little investigative journalism to cobble together a schedule.

According to their site, Radiohead is scheduled to headline the opening night of the three-day festival. Tom Petty’s site notes that they will play Saturday night, leaving MoR Jack Johnson to close out the festival on Sunday night

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The 16th-annual NoisePop concert series is set to spread its indie goodness across San Francisco in just a few weeks.

The full schedule is up, and it’s another eclectic mix this year, with highlights including the Magnetic Fields, Mountain Goats, Walkmen, and She & Him (indie-folk genius M Ward and the impossibly cute Zooey Deschanel).

More San Francisco concerts here.