5 New Bands on Day 3 of Outside Lands 2016

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San Francisco – Sunshine. Muppets. Girls with flowers in their hair. The third day of Outside Lands 2016 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park saw all three of these things, as the sun was finally strong enough to burn off the stubborn Pacific fog banks that had plagued the area since the first morning. As everyone scrambled to make

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More New Bands at Outside Lands 2016 – Day 2

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San Francisco – Back at Golden Gate Park this Saturday, for Outside Lands Music Festival, we saw an emergence of faux fur and festivalgoers shawled with knit blankets, as temperatures rose only to the high-50s and the clouds stubbornly refused to be chased out of the neighborhood. Among the many legacy bands being presented at Outside Lands on

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6 New Bands at Outside Lands 2016 Day 1

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San Francisco – The ninth annual Outside Lands Music Festival kicked off this Friday in the misty glens of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The sparse early afternoon crowds swiftly grew to massive proportions as the day progressed, and the areas around the festival’s four stages quickly filled with attendees keen to catch some of the most renowned acts

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10 New Bands to See at Outside Lands 2016

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San Francisco – This weekend marks the ninth Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, held annually in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The first edition was held back in 2008, boasting acts like Radiohead, Beck, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson. This year marks the triumphant return of Radiohead to OSL—as well as headlining sets from LCD Soundsystem, Lionel Richie,

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The 2015 Outside Lands Lineup Ought to Get You Excited!

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Another Planet Entertainment, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Superfly and Starr Hill have announced the packed lineup for the 8th annual Outside Lands Festival. The “gourmet music festival” will be held again in San Francisco’s historic Golden Gate Park, from August 7-9, 2015. While the festival’s “Eager Beaver” pass sale already had the fastest

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Sunday Preview: New Bands At Outside Lands

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San Francisco – Outside Lands provides amazing food, countless libation options, and of course, a slew of new and exciting bands waiting to be discovered.  We’ll be there taking it all in and reporting back on the goings-on around Golden Gate Park during this annual celebration of music, food, and good times in the Bay

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Outside Lands: New Bands We Liked On Sunday

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Music festivals are the Jackson Pollock paintings of the concert-going experience: both are messy, frustratingly incoherent and unmercifully overwhelming affairs.  Yet, under the right conditions or at a certain angle or with the help of questionable substances/chemicals/beverages flowing through the blood stream, they can turn into beautiful, spiritual enlightenments.  Such is Outside Lands, another excuse

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