Outside Lands week in San Francisco is off and rolling. Daily lineups and schedules have been set. You can start prepping your comfortable walking shoes and figuring out the best way to navigate Muni over the course of the weekend (let’s hope more buses have been added this year, although you can always pony up [...]

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It is not uncommon to see Meric Long of the Dodos [...]

Initial announcements regarding the lineup at this year’s Outside Lands Festival may have received a more varied reaction, seeing as it branches pretty far beyond the more indie-centric lineup of 2008. Perhaps this announcement of the OSL daily schedule will help sway those teetering on the “not-sure-how-I-feel-about-the-Black-Eyed-Peas” fence.
Single-day tickets go on sale here on June [...]

After what seemed like a series of odd delays and false starts, the lineup finally got released today for this year’s Coachella Music Festival. It’s a good one. Really good. Headlining each day are Paul McCartney on Friday, The Killers on Saturday and The Cure on Sunday (before you scoff at Friday’s closer, Uncle Corey’s [...]

[Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Aug. 25, 2008, as we were just getting Stranger Dance off the ground. Seeing as how posting over the holidays gets slow, but people's thirst for music doesn't, we've decided to re-post some of our favorite posts from the past year that folks may not have seen. Plus, [...]

There’s no doubt about it – Radiohead is the finest band in existence right now. The band’s show last night at Outside Lands (barring two inexcusable sound failures) was amazing. There were far too many people and several annoyances with the festival (which may stem from me not liking festivals), but as Thom Yorke said [...]

So, exciting times around these parts. Not only are 5 bajillion cool bands playing at Outside Lands a mere nine days from now, but we’re also breaking out of our little shell and throwing a party to celebrate the release of Cousin Chris‘ debut album Moon Paper. We’re inviting all our readers and fellow bloggers [...]

Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival has finally announced the stage schedule. There will be six stages and in my opinion they’ve done a pretty good job spreading out the acts. The only major problem I have is that the Black Keys and Beck are playing the same [...]

It’s been a few weeks, so clearly it’s time to talk about the Outside Lands Festival again. The folks at APE Concerts have sweetened the pot even further, adding another 10 acts to the already impressive three-day festival.
The newest additions are Toots & the Maytals, Rogue Wave, The Walkmen, Mike Gordon, Abigail Washburn & the [...]

The folks at APE Concerts just sent out an announcement with three pieces of info that are sure to please the masses:

They will be offering single-day tickets (available here)
The full lineup schedule (we pieced together most of it a few weeks ago, but we now have a fully sanctioned official version)
They’ve added to the already [...]