Travel Pick: Pop Culture and Cinema in United States
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival

The inaugural multi-faceted, three-day festival takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. With five main performance stages, the music programming represents a wide range of genres, including rock, blues, reggae, jazz, hip-hop, world, soul, Latin and electronic music. From singer-songwriters to roots acts, rock bands and DJs, major national headliners will perform alongside emerging talent. Radiohead, Tom Petty and Jack Johnson headline the event.

Other artists on the lineup include: 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, Back Door Slam.

The local flavor is also seen in the festival’s concessions, featuring foods from local eateries, as well as in the world of the visual arts, with work from artists in both traditional and new media being featured throughout the event. 

Golden Gate Park