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 Friday or Saturday,…

I’m back with my best and worst of Day 2. Don’t worry, less than half is about pork products. I even mention music once or twice in there! BEST: Japan’s Kikagaku Moyo was by far…

Outside Lands reveals its best and worst to me throughout the day, and it might not be what you expect. The best and worst of Friday are below. In short, I need more bacon. BEST:…

SAN FRANCISCO — The Weeknd put on a headliner-caliber show to close out the first day of Outside Lands on Friday. It’s hard to believe the Canadian artist was just another YouTube singer only eight years…

Another year I was in high school and into modern music, another excessively long longlist of songs it kills me not to include. So before we get started with the official lis, here are some…

This won’t be Sweet Plot’s first time at Outside Lands. Not by a long shot. “We’re from San Francisco, so I’ve been to the festival plenty of times,” said frontman Cole Kromer. “The first one…

Every week people get mad at me for my top five. Sometimes it’s songs in the honorable mentions list that they think should’ve been at the top, sometimes it’s songs that they think got snubbed…

  There’s another excessively long longlist this week. You’re going to have to put up with these until I’d gotten out of high school and decided all new music was stupid. It’s an immutable human…

For Roses & Revolutions it all started to come together when Alyssa Coco and Matt Merritt decided to stop writing for other people. Roses & Revolutions Roses & Revolutions August 3 “It’s funny, Roses &…

You know how the music you liked as a teenager sticks with you, and you remain a fan for life? Those songs take you back to a simpler time when you were discovering your tastes…