Bringing together music lovers and festival goers from all over the world for a weekend of fun, art and music in Golden Gate Park is just one of the positive impacts the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has on the Bay Area.
On today's Rock it Out! Blog, we reflect on our favorite concert moments of the past year including Radiohead, Foo Fighters and the Outside Lands festival. What were your favorite concert moments? Let me know via text or video response.
K. Flay takes time out of a drive down California's 5 to talk about playing to hometown crowds, platonic oreos and a new EP.
At the Hollywood Palladium mini-mice experienced Deadmau5 from his first tickle to his last kaboom.
Over the last few months, our friends at Consequence of Sound have teamed with the Rock It Out! Blog to create a series of video podcasts called Cluster1 . The Cluster1 team went to the Outside Lands Festival earlier this month and have shared this seven-minute clip that helps paint the picture of what went down in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Cluster1 and RiO!B at Outside Lands '11 Previously on HT : Festival Journal - Outside Lands [...]

Big Audio Dynamite Date: August 12th, 2011 - Outside Lands Day 1 photos by Lindsey Best Bands: Big Audio Dynamite Ellie Goulding Foster the People Kelley Stoltz MGMT Phantogram Phish The Shins [View with PicLens]

Read part one (Gorge > Hollywood Bowl) and part two (Lake Tahoe > Outside Lands) first before diving into our final recap/review from Phish summer tour. Next week about this time Phish will be deep into their second set on the final night of three-night run at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Colorado, and that's a good sign that it's time to reflect on the awesome Leg II run that us lucky (!) West Coast fans were able to partake in this summer. I loved how most of 2010 the [...]

In celebration of the Phish three-night run at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, CO next weekend, we're recapping our own experiences with this second leg of the band's summer tour: two nights at the Gorge and an epic stop by Hollywood Bowl were already recapped in yesterday's post . Wes saw the Hollywood show while me and @PeteLikesPhish were on our way to visit friends in Bend, OR. We took the long way to Tahoe and ended up driving the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway and seeing some [...]

Phish will be returning to the road a week from tonight in Commerce City, Colorado at Dick's Sporting Goods Park and there will be a new flurry of coverage surrounding my favorite band all over the interwebs. But that means it's a perfect time to reflect back on the tour that just wrapped up last week at UIC Pavilion in Chicago before we get inundated with new awesomeness. Speaking of awesomeness, I've had a week now to sit at home, listen to the show and find some kicking [...]

(photo by Morgan Schlesinger ) Lord Huron have easily been one of my favorite bands of 2011, and despite having only released two EPs, there isn't a single song on either Mighty or Into The Sun that I don't love. Naturally, I was thrilled to hear that they would be performing at Outside Lands , making it the deciding factor as to whether or not I was willing to venture up to San Francisco from Los Angeles in order to attend. The [...]
A three-day music festival like Outside Lands is hectic and exhausting no matter how you approach it. So, I try to pare down the wish list, not rush from stage to stage to see every single band I'm interested in, and let the festival vibe take care of whatever other decisions need to be made. Recapping the experience without running over the itinerary isn't much easier. But paying attention
STRSTRK for STRFKR: Starstruck for Starf***er.
One of the best summer days passed with bright music in a meadow and wood setting in San Francisco, with a capacity crowd of 60,0000 fans.
Vetiver's elusive Andy Cabic sits down with The Owl Mag to discuss the band's latest album, Errant Charm, touring, and why he loves doing what he does.

Beirut - Santa Fe by Revolver USA As we noted yesterday, Ty Segall is following his Outside Lands 2011 performance up with a show at the Hemlock next weekend (and one at The New Parish on 9/12 ). He's not the only one - a bevy of local and touring performers from last weekend's fest have newly announced upcoming Bay Area shows. Here are some other potential highlights, most of which have tickets on sale now: [...]
It's 5:50 PM, and I'm wondering why the hell no one at this music festival has mushrooms. Phish are scheduled to go on in 40 minutes, and I'm sober as a rock because beers cost $9 a pop and my buddies with all the weed stayed to the back of the Polo Fields (the main stage area of Outside Lands) in order to get to the Shins on time after Phish's first set. So all I've got is the company of my good friend, Samantha, and a spot about fifty feet from the stage, and though that would normally more than suffice for [...]