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Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival

Friday, Aug 22 3:00p

at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

Price: $85.00 - $225.00

Age Suitability: Teens and up

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The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival is set to take place in San Francisco's historic Golden Gate Park August 22-24 with Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and dozens of other bands and attractions. From singer-songwriters to DJs, jazz acts and cutting edge rock bands, all major music movements will be celebrated alongside a host of local musicians, food vendors and visual artists representing San Francisco's vibrant cultural community.

This green-conscious event will directly benefit the San Franscisco Recreation & Park Department with a special annual donation. The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival is certain to be the ultimate summer destination for live music fans, and the fact that it will take place in the great city of San Francisco ensures an unparalleled entertainment experience. Come on out and join in the fun!

If one or two days' lineup reaches out and grabs you, single day ticket sales go on sale this THURSDAY, MAY 1ST at 10AM PST.

2008 Artist Lineup:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22ND @ 5PM:

RADIOHEAD
BECK
MANU CHAO
THE BLACK KEYS
COLD WAR KIDS
STEEL PULSE
LYRICS BORN
BLACK MOUNTAIN
THE FELICE BROTHERS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23RD @ 1PM:

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS
PRIMUS
STEVE WINWOOD
CAFÉ TACVBA
LUPE FIASCO
REGINA SPEKTOR
GALACTIC’S CRESCENT CITY SOUL KREWE
M. WARD
DEVENDRA BANHART
MATT NATHANSON
TWO GALLANTS
DREDG
SIDESTEPPER
KAKI KING
THE COUP
LIARS
DONAVON FRANKENREITER
NELLIE MCKAY
GOAPELE
SEAN HAYES
RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24TH @ 1PM:

JACK JOHNSON
WILCO
WIDESPREAD PANIC
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
ANDREW BIRD
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
STARS
ALO
JACKIE GREENE
THE COOL KIDS
GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS
LITTLE BROTHER
BON IVER
IVAN NEVILLE'S DUMPSTAPHUNK
THE MOTHER HIPS
NICOLE ATKINS & THE SEA
K’NAAN
BACK DOOR SLAM
CULVER CITY DUB COLLECTIVE

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Categories: Music, Alternative, Rock, Other

Creator: Zvents Zvents

Performers at this Event

The Mother Hips

Formed in Chico, California in 1991, The Mother Hips have spent more than a decade refining a trademark blend of catchy, Beatlesque pop, psychedelic jam-rock and rootsy folk twang that has made them a perennial favorite on college campuses across the land.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Country

Toots & the Maytals

The Maytals were key figures in reggae music. Comprised of leader Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias, and Raleigh Gordon, all natives of Kingston, the Maytals are said to have been the first group to use the word "reggae" in a song...

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Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse were one of Britain's greatest reggae bands, rivaled only by Aswad in terms of creative and commercial success. Generally a protest-minded Rastafarian outfit, Steel Pulse started out playing authentic roots reggae with touches of jazz and Latin music, and earned a substantial...

Musicians / Bands > World

Ivan Neville

A member of the next Neville Generation, bassist Ivan Neville went with Keith Richards on his first solo tour. The son of Aaron Neville, he has also played in Bonnie Raitt's band and was on The Rolling Stones' Dirty Work LP.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Rhythm & Blues

Tom Petty

Upon the release of their first album in the late '70s, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were shoehorned into the punk/new wave movement by some observers who picked up on the tough, vibrant energy of the group's blend of Byrds riffs and Stonesy swagger.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Primus

Primus is all about Les Claypool; there isn't a moment on any of their records where his bass isn't the main focal point of the music, with his vocals acting as a bizarre side-show. Which isn't to deny guitarist Larry LaLonde or drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander any credit...

Widespread Panic

One of the many neo-hippie jam bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic established a devout grassroots following on the strength of constant touring and a loose, rootsy brand of Southern rock informed by jazz and blues textures.

Steve Winwood

As a solo artist, Steve Winwood is primarily associated with the highly polished blue-eyed soul-pop that made him a star in the '80s. Yet his turn as a slick, upscale mainstay of adult contemporary radio was simply the latest phase of a long and varied career, one that's seen the...

Musicians / Bands > Blues

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band in its prime successfully mixed together R&B with the instrumentation of a New Orleans brass band. Featuring Kirk Joseph on sousaphone playing with the agility of an electric bassist, the group revitalized the brass band tradition, opening up the repertoire...

Musicians / Bands > Rhythm & Blues, Musicians / Bands > Jazz, Musicians / Bands

Stars

Sharing a fondness for sophisticated soul and pop artists (the Smiths, New Order, Marvin Gaye, et al.), Stars was formed by Torquil Campbell and Chris Seligman in New York. Along with friends Evan Cranley (also of Big Rude Jake) and Amy Millan (who contributed to the soundtrack for...

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Cake

Best-known for their ubiquitous hit "The Distance," Cake epitomized the postmodern, irony-drenched aesthetic of 90s geek-rock. Their sound freely mixed and matched pastiches of widely varying genres -- white-boy funk, hip-hop, country, new wave pop, jazz, college rock...

Café Tacuba

With rare objection, Café Tacuba is credited far and wide as the preeminent band to have arisen from the rock en espana; movement of the early '90s. The Mexican four-piece unfortunately isn't well characterized by the rock en espana; tag, for the "rock music sung in Spanish"...

Musicians / Bands > World

The Coup

The Coup were one of the most overtly political bands in rap history. Formed in the early '90s, the Coup were obviously influenced by the black power rhetoric of "conscious" rappers like Public Enemy and KRS-One, but they were perhaps even more inspired by a heavy-duty...

Musicians / Bands > Rap, Musicians / Bands > Hip-Hop

Radiohead

Radiohead was one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early albums. But the band internalized that epic sweep, turning it inside out to tell tortured, twisted tales of angst and alienation.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Beck

One of the most inventive and eclectic figures to emerge from the '90s alternative revolution, Beck was the epitome of postmodern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture. Drawing upon a kaleidoscope of influences -- pop, folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, country, blues, R&B, funk...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Pop, Musicians / Bands > Miscellaneous, Musicians / Bands

Béla Fleck

Premier banjo player Béla Fleck is considered one of the most innovative pickers in the world and has done much to demonstrate the versatility of his instrument, which he uses to play everything from traditional bluegrass to progressive jazz.

Musicians / Bands > Jazz, Musicians / Bands

Ben Harper

Combining shuddering, groove-laden funky soul and folky handcrafted acoustics, singer/songwriter Ben Harper had cult status during the course of the '90s but gained wider attention toward the end of the decade.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Wilco

Wilco rose from the ashes of the seminal roots rockers Uncle Tupelo, who disbanded in 1994. While Jay Farrar, one of the group's two singer/songwriters, went on to form the band Son Volt, his ex-partner Jeff Tweedy established Wilco along with the remaining members of Tupelo's final...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Country

Galactic

The New Orleans-based jazz-funk ensemble Galactic formed in 1994; originally an eight-piece, the group soon pared down to an instrumental sextet comprising guitarist Jeff Raines, organist Rich Vogel, bassist Robert Mercurio, saxophonists Ben Ellman and Jason Mingledorff, and drummer Stanton Moore.

Musicians / Bands > Jazz, Musicians / Bands > Miscellaneous, Musicians / Bands

Manu Chao

Manu Chao helped begin the Latin alternative movement way back in the '80s -- although it had no name then -- and in his later work he cut a cross-cultural swath across styles and geographic boundaries.

Musicians / Bands > World

Andrew Bird

Chicago singer/songwriter/violinist Andrew Bird updates the traditions of small-group swing, German leider, and New Orleans jazz, mixing gypsy, folk, and rock elements into his distinctive style.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Lyrics Born

The first artist to release an EP on San Francisco's Soleside Records, Lyrics Born went under the original moniker Asia Born on 1993's Send Them before changing it three years later on his collaborations with labelmate Lateef.

Musicians / Bands > Rap, Musicians / Bands > Hip-Hop

Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers released several albums of gutsy, often ironic roots rock (1998's Gangstabilly, 1999's Pizza Deliverance, and the live effort Alabama Ass Whuppin') before settling down to compose their unlikely magnum opus, The Southern Rock Opera, a two-act, two-CD work based...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Country

Donavon Frankenreiter

Born on December 10, 1972, in Downey, CA, Donavon Frankenreiter took to surfing at a young age. By the age of 13 he had a sponsor -- Billabong -- and the pursuit of a professional career in surfing led to a move to Hawaii a year later.

Sidestepper

The project of British producer Richard Blair, Sidestepper fuses a Latin aesthetic with the late '90s electronic dance music aesthetic, resulting in a dancefloor-friendly hybrid that presents a refreshing alternative to the often formulaic sound of electronic dance music.

Musicians / Bands > World

Jack Johnson

Before Jack Johnson perfected his rock star ways, he was a champion surfer on the professional route, with a sponsorship with Quiksilver. It was a life that was second nature for the Hawaiian native, for he began chasing waves as a toddler, and by the time he was 17, he was an outstanding...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Pop, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship into a band. They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock sound in their native Toronto and the dynamic was great.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

M. Ward

After a six-year stint with the trio Rodriguez, M. Ward began sketching out songs deeply rooted in the classic traditions of American country-folk. Rodriguez's home was in San Luis Obispo, CA, and they eventually recorded Swing Like a Metronome with Granddaddy's Jason Lytle.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Matt Nathanson

An impressive 12-string guitar player and songwriter, San Francisco's Matt Nathanson has built up a loyal fan base through extensive touring. His live shows are stripped-down affairs, usually with just Nathanson and cellist Matt Fish on-stage, and are half music, half standup comedy...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Pop

The Walkmen

The Walkmen feature three members from Jonathan Fire Eater and two from the Recoys. When Jonathan Fire Eater disbanded in 1998, the group took the remainder of their Dreamworks funding and established an uptown rehearsal space in New York City that doubles as a 24-track recording...

Liars

Liars were conceived in November 2000 after two friends and ex-Los Angeles art students, Aaron Hemphill and Angus Andrew, reunited in New York City. They responded to a "musicians wanted" ad posted in a local record store by two Nebraskans, Pat Noecker and Ron Albertson.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Dredg

Hailing from Los Gatos, CA, Dredg began sharpening their aggro-metal sound in the early '90s. Comprised of Gavin Hayes (vocals/guitar), Mark Engles (guitar), Drew Roulette (bass), and Dino Campanella (drums), the group was performing in area clubs before they'd even graduated from high school.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

The Black Keys

The two-man duo comprising the Black Keys, singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, were in their early twenties when their debut, The Big Come Up, was issued in 2002. From Akron, OH, they play close-to-the-bone, raw blues-rock, the only instrumentation being Auerbach's...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Blues

Devendra Banhart

Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, and Los Angeles, Devendra Banhart was always playing music and drawing. But it wasn't until his brief stay at the San Francisco Art Institute that the disciplines became his constant companions.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Goapele

Born Goapele Mohlabane in Oakland, CA, this singer grew up in a socially conscious and politically active family. Her mother married South African political exile Douglas Mohlabane while studying in Nairobi, Kenya.

Musicians / Bands > Rhythm & Blues

Vienna Teng

Reaching the national spotlight at the end of 2002, pianist Vienna Teng had been an important part of the California singer/songwriter scene for a few years before then. A pianist since the age of five, Teng took piano lessons before moving on to improvisation.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Jackie Greene

Discovered at an open mike when Dig Music's owner happened to be there, singer/songwriter Jackie Greene is a captivating performer who works well in simple, sparse environments. Signing to the label almost immediately, the California native worked countless clubs and bars before...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Country

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

By the sound of them, you would think Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings started making funk-threaded soul music together in the 1960s. Few devotedly retro acts are as convincing. Few singers as skilled as Sharon Jones at stuffing notes with ache and meaning might be willing to invest...

Musicians / Bands > Rhythm & Blues

Kaki King

Growing up, Kaki King's passions were drums and Brit-pop, and she figured if she ever made it big it would be because of her skills behind the kit. However, her musical talents didn't stop there: she also played the guitar, and though she learned Beatles and Fleetwood Mac songbooks...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Little Brother

Part of the new-millennium resurgence of alternative rap, Little Brother's inspirations were atypical for Southern hip-hop: classic Native Tongues outfits like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, as well as more recent torch-bearers like the Roots and Black Star.

Musicians / Bands > Rap, Musicians / Bands > Hip-Hop

Black Mountain

After founding Jerk with a Bomb in the late '90s, Stephen McBean had by the mid-2000s transformed the Vancouver-area band into a group called Black Mountain. Drawing on blues, psychedelia, acid rock, and the Velvet Underground, Black Mountain's sound was a cross between the darkness...

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Nicole Atkins

With her throaty vibrato and nostalgic, orchestrated pop songs, singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins brings to mind a blend of Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn, and Jenny Lewis. Atkins was raised in Neptune, New Jersey -- a town whose influence would later play a large part in her debut album...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Pop

Rogue Wave

Rogue Wave was formed in 2002 when Zach Rogue took off from his San Francisco home, headed for New York, and came home with nearly a full album's worth of songs recorded. Rogue then quit his post in his previous group, the Desoto Reds, and finished the album, which was released on...

Nellie McKay

Get Away from Me, the title of singer/songwriter Nellie McKay's debut album, was a play on two titles by romantic female vocalists who became popular in the early 2000s: Norah Jones' Come Away with Me and Jane Monheit's Come Dream with Me.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Miscellaneous

Regina Spektor

A veteran of New York's anti-folk scene, Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Western pop and rock as a young child and also learned to play piano.

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero met as teenagers in Mexico City, both dedicated heavy metal fans at the time. They combined their talents for a time in the metal group Tierra Acida, playing around D.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > World

Two Gallants

Simplicity is key for the lo-fi blend of folk/indie rock from San Francisco duo Two Gallants. Taking their name from a James Joyce short story, Adam Stephens (vocals/guitar/harmonica) and Tyson Vogel (drums/vocals) have been playing together as Two Gallants since 2002, sounding more...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Abigail Washburn

The bare-bones, rustic, and poignant sounds of singer/songwriter and banjo player Abigail Washburn seem so genuine and natural they must come from a person who grew up in love with and surrounded by folk and bluegrass.

Musicians / Bands > Folk

Culver City Dub Collective

Dos, the debut full-length album from the Culver City Dub Collective, unites an all-star cast in a captivating blend of Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Cuban rhythms and West Coast bossa beats.

Musicians / Bands > World

Lupe Fiasco

Chicago-based Muslim MC Lupe Fiasco began rapping in junior high school and joined a group called Da Pak several years later. The group signed to Epic, released one single, and split up, all before Fiasco reached the age of 20.

ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra)

A band with a laid-back California vibe, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) are a hit on the jam band circuit and often associated with their good friend Jack Johnson. Members Zach Gill (keyboards/vocals), Steve Adams (bass/vocals), and Dan Lebowitz (guitars/vocals) had all known...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Pop

Howlin Rain

We are the mind-children of Ethan and Ian. We incorporated a hirsuite brute called Mike. We and a drifter named John ambled and broke and We were remade, absorbed a Turtle and a Keysterer.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

K'Naan

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, just as the civil unrest that rocked the country was beginning, rapper K'Naan spent the early years of his life trying to avoid death and listening to the hip-hop records that his father, who had left Somalia earlier, sent to him from America.

Musicians / Bands > Rap, Musicians / Bands > Hip-Hop

Cold War Kids

Fullerton, CA's Cold War Kids make music with roots that go deep and wide, embracing influences as diverse as Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, and the Velvet Underground. Matt Aveiro, Matt Maust, Jonnie Russell, and Nathan Willett began crafting their soulful, blues-inflected...

The Felice Brothers

Hailing from the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, the Felice Brothers blend folk, Americana, and revivalist roots rock into a uniquely earthy sound. Brothers Ian, Simone, and James Felice grew up in the Hudson River Valley, several miles away from the musical hamlet of Woodstock.

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands > Country, Musicians / Bands > Folk

Back Door Slam

British blues-rockers Back Door Slam boast a tough, streetwise sound that recalls veteran U.K. blues players such as Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and John Mayall, though these young guitar slingers represent a new generation -- when bassist Adam Jones joined the group in 2006, guitarist...

Musicians / Bands > Rock, Musicians / Bands

Sean Hayes

You might’ve first heard a Sean Hayes remix at the Banana Republic or maybe it was at Prada’s Milan store, a dance club in Thailand, or a Miami restaurant. If nightclubs and high-end retail aren’t your scene, then perhaps it was in your car, while listening to a local folk...

Musicians / Bands > Folk

Rupa & The April Fishes

Rupa & the April Fishes creates fresh music that defies the notion of genre — it is a whimsical magic carpet ride through time and place, mixing sounds from the Far East, Europe, Latin America and the US.

Musicians / Bands > World

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

Singer, songwriter, and Hammond B-3 player Grace Potter grew up in Waitsfield, VT, where she began playing piano at the age of seven, and informed by her parents' extensive collection of some 4,000 LPs, she was gigging out locally by her late teens.

Musicians / Bands > Rock

Bon Iver

Justin Vernon began recording under the nom de band Bon Iver following the breakup of DeYarmond Edison, an indie folk group similar in tone and manner to Iron & Wine, Little Wings and, to a certain extent, Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Musicians / Bands > Folk

The Cool Kids

Part of the mid-2000s hip-hop movement that found kids in all-over prints rapping about their shoes and their favorite forms of transportation (which often weren't cars), the Cool Kids proved to be both an Internet and live show phenomenon.

Musicians / Bands > Hip-Hop

Carney

Fronted by actor/musician Reeve Carney, the L.A.-based quartet Carney mix pop/rock, California psychedelia, and Southern-styled stomp into a hybrid of rock & roll traditions. Reeve Carney was raised in New York City, where he worked as a professional child actor and honed his...

Musicians / Bands > Rock

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Golden Gate Park
9th Ave. and Lincoln Way
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 831-2700

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