Tagged Outside Lands

I am someone who takes attending concerts very seriously. Foraging through the endless ticket selling sites, checking artists’ Instagrams, and updating my extensive notes app page of upcoming concerts has bec...

Following the weekend of San Francisco’s annual festival Outside Lands, the Golden Gate Park hosted 50,000 people for another day of music on August 17, though this time the event attracted a crowd of metal a...

At last year’s Outside Lands, Moses Sumney gave a cathartic performance. Clad in latex and a leather skirt, his voice pierced the San Francisco fog, entrancing the audience in his siren song. And it was throu...

One part of me loved the 12th annual Outside Lands festival, another part of me felt it perfectly encapsulated everything wrong with festivals: a disconnect from the music.  Overall, OSL did succeed in coll...

When American author and countercultural leader Ken Kesey said “You’re either on the bus or off the bus,” he was referring to the Merry Pranksters….or acid…or the combination of the two on the psyched...

It was Day One of San Francisco's annual Outside Lands Festival and fans had lined up well before the gates opened. Amongst the sea of selfie sticks and floral crowns were dedicated fans who had paid hundr...

Each year – and despite drought -- the grass at Golden Gate Park is greener this second week of August, particularly for Bay Area soundhounds out scavenging for as many headliners in three days as possibl...

Day One It’s a music festival. Flashy hipsters in animal costumes, neon-glo face paint, and flower crowns flocked into San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Early risers were already trekking deep into the 7th ...