News: Lineup for the first Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
March 26th, 2008 - by Eddie
How are all these first-time festivals getting kick-ass performers? I tried to put a festival on in my backyard and all I got was a bum on a harmonica and my dad snoring in a lawn chair with a half-empty beer in his hand (somehow, it was a success).
We got news of the inaugural lineup of Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival being held in San Francisco’s historic Golden Gate Park on August 22 - 24, 2008.
But we literally lost our shit when we found out that RADIOHEAD was going to be there. Did you catch that? I said RADIOHEAD.
Oh right, this is a festival, which means you get more music awesomeness with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Jack Johnson, Wilco, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Broken Social Scene, just to name a few.
What’s that? Too indie rock for you and want the hip-hop? Little Brother and The Coup will be there too. I know. My pants are soiled too.
Tickets go on sale this Sunday, March 30, 2008, at 10am PST through www.SFOutsidelands.com.
If you’re on the East Coast and suck at math, the time is 1pm for you.
The rest of the initial lineup is after the jump. The festival claims there will be a total of 60 acts on five stages. Happy Hunting…and screw you if you live on the West Coast.
Radiohead
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Jack Johnson
Beck
Wilco
Manu Chao
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Widespread Panic
Primus
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Steve Winwood
Café Tacvba
Broken Social Scene
Regina Spektor
Devendra Banhart
Cold War Kids
Galactic’s Crescent City Soul Krewe
Lyrics Born
Andrew Bird
Steel Pulse
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings
M. Ward
Drive-By Truckers
ALO
Matt Nathanson
The Cool Kids
Two Gallants
Dredg
Little Brother
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Donavon Frankenreiter
The Mother Hips
Black Mountain
Sidestepper
Nellie McKay
The Coup
Goapele
Bon Iver
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Sean Hayes
The Felice Brothers
Rupa & the April Fishes
Back Door Slam
K’NAAN
March 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Yeah, but $225.50 (or $695 if you’re a Very Important Prick), you get:
- No in-and-out privs (BUY OUR EXPENSIVE FOOD/DRINK/BOOZE ONLY, despite being close to tons of great local joints)
- No “professional” cameras (an increasingly annoying festival policy)
- No audio/video taping
- No strollers (sorry kids)
- Nobody 3 and up is free or discounted (sorry parents, it’ll be $225.50 for your 4-year old.)
Discuss:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/735057@N22/
March 26th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Dude…good point. Wow. I mean, I know the lineup is pretty crazy, but no professional pictures? Why?
And no kids? I don’t have any, but that’s still bullshit. This feels like a dirty corporate trick. Thanks for looking out…