Temples’s set is chill, groovy technical perfection
Saturday | Land's End Stage
While the band’s performance was relatively low-key, its music is energetic and electric — and live, the pure talent of the young musicians is even clearer.
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Foxygen lights up with zealous energy, spunky personality
Saturday | Panhandle Stage
Foxygen is a pseudo-avant-garde and semi-psychedelic indie-rock band from Southern California. Formed in 2005 while frontmen Sam France and Jonathan Rado were in high school, the band has had several years — despite its youth — to explore every corner of the genres it has thrust itself in. At Outside
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Young the Giant charms audience with electric, dynamic performance
Sunday | Land's End Stage
Crowds gathered around Land’s End stage long before Young the Giant began its set on Sunday afternoon as excited fans awaited the band’s genuine, animated performance. Young the Giant was formed in 2004 by vocalist Sameer Gadhia and guitarist Jacob Tilley. The band opened with “Amerika” off its most recent
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The She’s represent local talent with warm, original set
Sunday | Panhandle Stage
It isn’t easy to approach a festival as big and daunting as Outside Lands, but The She’s tamed it and cut it down to size, to the well voiced approval of the crowd, proving that the band’s sound and style can hold their own.
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Future Islands blends seductive body rolling with anguished screamo
Friday | Twin Peaks Stage
Watching Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring onstage is a bit like watching performance art — particularly, watching a performance of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Cage the Elephant rocks mainstage with characteristic feral intensity
Saturday | Land's End Stage
The prospect of effectively opening for Metallica is undoubtedly intimidating — but Cage the Elephant was well up to the challenge. The modus operandi of lead singer Matt Shultz has seemingly always been to take whatever relevant dials might exist and crank them to 11. As the band roared to the
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S U R V I V E impresses with sonic depth, but with little showmanship
Saturday | Panhandle Stage
They walked onstage to their rigs, played through a set that featured no breaks — each song blending into the next — and left.
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The Who lives up to legacy of fire-powered rebellion
Sunday | Land's End Stage
In the misty fog engulfing Golden Gate Park on Sunday evening, singer-songwriter and guitarist Pete Townshend walked onto Land’s End stage already beaming. “You’re wet! You’re all fucking wet — and we’re not wet!” he laughed as vocalist-guitarist Roger Daltrey stepped up to the mic and added: “But it won’t
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Solange gets cut off after late start in headlining set
Sunday | Sutro Stage
Fans were chanting “Solange, Solange!” as the delay to the singer’s set stretched past the 15-minute mark — those near the front cheered at the emergence of every sheepish sound technician who had to fiddle with a keyboard or mic. Their anticipation was fully warranted; when Solange appeared on stage,
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Real Estate performs dreamy set with ease
Saturday | Sutro Stage
Outside Lands may be stacked predominantly with buoyant pop artists, but Real Estate made room for its easygoing sound.
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