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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Tove Lo redefines her lyricism during polished live set
Friday | Land's End Stage
Tove Lo’s music is undeniably sexy — her lyrics never shy away from the explicit — but during her live show at Outside Lands, her presence lent these lyrics a different meaning.
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Metallica revives its glory days in marathon headlining set
Saturday | Land's End Stage
Metallica’s two-hour set Saturday night started while the sun was still up, and it ended with what can only be described as a metric shit-ton of fireworks. As news of the events in Charlottesville swirled around the festival, the heavy metal rockers from Los Angeles had some vague words to
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Lorde plays her emotions to thousands at Outside Lands
Sunday | Land's End Stage
Lorde’s popularity was established with her first album Pure Heroine — a romantic record of the details in her 16-year-old life, a paradigmatic example of adolescent feelings. Pure Heroine cradles gentle, simmering songs such as “400 Lux” about driving home with someone you love and watching the sunset together —
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Little Dragon plays absurd pop punk to incessantly dancing crowd
Friday | Land's End Stage
The audience received the bizarreness typical of Little Dragon’s performances with happy dancing — they bopped and bobbed perkily in time to the beat.
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Alt-J doubles down on its lightshow to awe-inspiring effect in headlining set
Friday | Twin Peaks Stage
What became clear as the band launched into its closer “Breezeblocks” is the way in which alt-J has grown into its image.
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Gorillaz carries its energy through San Francisco’s curfew
Friday | Land's End Stage
A cartoon band, Gorillaz may have started from behind Jamie Hewlett’s caricatures but permanent frontman Damon Albarn didn’t pretend to be anything other than flesh and blood at Outside Lands in its headlining set Friday night. Albarn stepped up to the crowd in dark jeans and a black shirt, bereft
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Sleigh Bells can’t ring through overblown bass
Friday | Twin Peaks Stage
But oddly, given the band’s reliance on heavy bass and a machine-gun drumline, there was no drummer or bassist to be found onstage, the two critical parts instead left on the shoulders of a backing track.
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Caturday
Every 1st Saturday of each month, there’s something different about Dolores Park…
Inaugural Clusterfest comedy festival comes to San Francisco
While summer time often brings a slate of well-established music festivals to attend, this year brought the Clusterfest — a comedy festival.
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