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July 5, 2011 SPIN is giving away two pairs of Outside Lands tickets, and one of the lucky winners will get hooked up with VIP passes for the festival!On August 12-14, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park will play host to the music gathering as Muse, Phish, and Arcade Fire headline.It's going to be awesome so hurry and up and enter the sweepstakes!Sorry. …
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August 26, 2008 Whether delivering coy political messages on stage or chatting casually backstage, Stars singer Torquil Campbell is always an engaging persona. And at Outside Lands he went a step further, treating SPIN.com to an intimate acoustic performance. Campbell chose to play "A Place to Hide Away," a tune by Robert Forster, most famously of Australian indie influencers the Go-Betweens. …
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August 25, 2008 When Jeff Tweedy sang the opening line of "Via Chicago" last night at San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival -- "I dreamt of killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me" -- it seemed vastly appropriate that his band, Wilco, was performing on a stage named "Twin Peaks." But the frontman's demeanor was, for the most part, far sunnier, particularly when faced with a sprawling throng of sunbathed fans in Golden Gate Park's Speed …
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August 25, 2008 When we last caught up with power-blues duo the Black Keys, they were tearing up the racetrack at this year's Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore. This past weekend at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney braved much lower temperatures as they shred through tracks new and old. …
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August 25, 2008 The weather at this weekend's inaugural Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park may have been a tad chilly for a summer rockathon, but it suited the Walkmen's dark-hued balladry and pale skin tones just fine. …
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August 25, 2008 On "He Lied About Death," from his band's 2005 opus Set Yourself on Fire, Stars co-frontman Torquil Campbell rants about our current president, calling him "an ape in a cage" and hoping his "drunken daughters are gay." So, on the weekend the Democrats picked their V.P. candidate, it wasn't surprising to hear Campbell chime in on this year's election. …
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August 25, 2008 Searching for an exciting end to the opening day of Outside Lands, concertgoers wiped bay-fog off their shoulders as they cozied in between the blood-red curtained walls of San Francisco's Independent Friday night for SPIN and Dell's afterparty, featuring sets from the Matches and the Felice Brothers.
"Ya'll feelin' independent tonight?" asked Felice Brothers drummer, Simone Felice, moments before the group broke into a raucous set of …
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Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
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