April 19, 2022
Crowds make their way from Twin Peaks to Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on October 31, 2021.
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Following a special Halloween edition in 2021, San Francisco’s premier music festival Outside Lands returns this year from August 5-7. Early release of Eager Beaver tickets has come and gone, and this morning the lineup was finally released.
Similar to last year, the lineup is significantly younger. Top billing goes to Berkeley legend Green Day, who could definitely fall into the legacy act category at this point, but their eternally youthful punk rock spirit is a far cry from former boomer-bait headliners like Paul Simon. Rounding out the big font acts are divisive radio-rap king Post Malone and SZA, who still stick in the minds of R&B fans despite not releasing a full-length album since 2017’s “Ctrl.”
People walk under the windmills at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park on October 31, 2021 in San Francisco.
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Other standouts include beloved songwriters like Phoebe Bridgers and Mitski, electronic favorites like Disclosure and Polo & Pan, and feisty British upstarts Wet Leg. Jazz-mad hip-hop fans will be happy to see Robert Glasper on the bill, Russian activists Pussy Riot continue their world tour and rap-mads 100 Gecs become a strange alternative to other hip-hop acts like Jack Harlow, Pusha T and Lil Uzi Be Vert.
The SOMA tent also beefed up its DJ roster this year, with headliners Claude Vonstroke, Dixon and Tokimonsta, as well as underground favorites Avalon Emerson and DJ Seinfeld.
Tickets go on sale April 20th at 10am, see the Outside Lands website for the full programme.
Dan Gentile is culture editor at SFGATE. He relocated from Austin, TX to San Francisco where he worked as a vinyl DJ and freelance food and music writer. His writing has been published in Texas Monthly, American Way, Rolling Stone, Roads & Kingdoms, VICE, Thrillist, and others.