Twenty-One Pilots perform at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 11, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello and Martin Lacey. Outside Lands Music Festival lineups are always strong, but having Twenty One Pilots, Childish Gambino and Paul Simon closing each night was a…

Attendees at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco photographed on Aug. 10, 2019. Photo: Martin Lacey, Joaquin Cabello and Shawn Robbins. This is a music site, so we mostly cover the music at Outside Lands, San Francisco’s annual music and arts festival. But every year there’s…

Attendees at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco photographed on Aug. 11, 2019. The third and final day of Outside Lands 2019 is in the books so it’s time for this year’s final best and worst of the day. I’ll warn you in advance: I get…

Paul Simon performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 11, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey and Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — The third and final day of Outside Lands 2019 featured music legends Paul Simon and Mavis Staples in addition to…

Tierra Whack performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 10, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey and Joaquin Cabello. Day 2 of Outside Lands is behind us, so it’s that time we’ve all been waiting for… some of us have been waiting…

Childish Gambino, Courtesy: Jerm Cohen/Outside Lands. Other photos by Joaquin Cabello and Martin Lacey. Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — Childish Gambino made the announcement shortly after taking the stage: He had just been told that his performance at Outside Lands had drawn the largest single crowd in the festival’s decade-plus history.…

Twenty One Pilots perform at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 9, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello, Holly Horn and Roman Gokhman. SAN FRANCISCO — The annual Outside Lands Music Festival kicked off Friday with Twenty One Pilots, The Lumineers and dozens…

Hozier, Courtesy: Alex Lake. After more than two years of constant touring in support of his debut album and massive hit “Take Me to Church,” Irish singer-songwriter Hozier needed time to recuperate. The grind of the road as well as the general state of the world—this was 2016, after all—had…

Cautious Clay, Courtesy photo. Two years ago, in May 2017, Josh Karpeh was a property leasing agent and a marketer. The George Washington University graduate had already gotten fired from one real estate job and wasn’t happy in his current one. Good thing, then, that he had a budding…

Grass Lands at Outside Lands in San Francisco on August 12, 2018. Outside Lands will officially feature the legal sale and consumption of cannabis. While music festivals and marijuana have gone together since Woodstock, the legalization of cannabis in California means it can now be official: In its second…