Bob Moses, Courtesy: Domino Recording Co. Back in 2016, the last time we spoke to them, electronic duo Bob Moses was touring its debut LP, Days Gone By, and had just broken through to the mainstream, even appearing on The Ellen Show. So what Jimmy Valance and Tom Howie been up to…

Altin Gün, including Merve Dasdemir (second from left), and Daniel Smienk (third from left). Courtesy photo. NEW YORK — Merve Dasdemir and Daniel Smienk are outside the Rough Trade record store in Brooklyn, taking a smoke break and chatting about their Amsterdam-based Turkish psychedelic folk band Altin Gün while their…

Big Wild, Courtesy: Little Green Eyes. A casual listener of Big Wild might listen to “No Words,” the fourth track off his long-awaited full-length debut, 2019’s Superdream, and internalize it as an ironic statement by the producer-DJ. Outside Lands Music Festival 12 p.m., Aug. 9 to 11. Golden Gate Park…

The Cast of Voyage to the Stars (l-r): Felicia Day, Janet Varney, Colton Dunn, Steve Berg. Outside Lands today unveiled the lineup for the Barbary comedy tent at this summer’s festival. The Barbary tent, a tradition at Outside Lands, will include standup comedy, musical performances and alternative programming like the Voyage to…

Producers of the 12th annual Outside Lands announced the daily lineups of the festival that runs from Aug. 9 to 11. Alt-rockers Twenty One Pilots and Americana-pop band The Lumineers headline Friday. Future EGOT winner Child Gambino and electronic musician Flume take center stage on Saturday. Folk icon Paul Simon and DJ-producer Kygo will finish…

Twenty One Pilots perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on July 21, 2016. Photo: Paige K. Parsons. Alt-rockers Twenty One Pilots and R&B superstar Childish Gambino will join the previously announced legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon as headliners at the 2019 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. The three will…

RIFF had five people at Outside Lands in 2018 (Editor-in-chief Roman Gokhman, managing editor Daniel J. Willis, photographers Joaquin Cabello and Shawn Robbins, and writer-photographer Mike DeWald) and among them, they saw nearly everything. And fortunately for you they tweeted the experience, so if you couldn’t make it or just want to relive the…

Florence and the Machine at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2018. Shawn Robbins. I can safely say that Outside Lands is the best large scale music festival running right now. Having been to my fair share of music festivals for about 10 years now, nothing beats…

Tunnel to Outside Lands in San Francisco on August 12, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello and Shawn Robbins. Welcome to the third and final installment of my Outside Lands 2018 best and worst. (But not my last column in general; I shamelessly plug that at the end.) If you missed…

Photos: Joaquin Cabello, Shawn Robbins and Mike DeWald SAN FRANCISCO — And then there was Janet. The final day of the 2018 edition of Outside Lands closed out with legendary pop icon Janet Jackson. Jackson proved to provide immediate heat to a crowd starting to feel one of the chillier…