The inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has
confirmed its initial artist lineup. In addition to previously confirmed headliners
Radiohead, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Jack Johnson, the new festival
will feature appearances by Beck, Wilco, Manu Chao, Ben Harper & The
Innocent Criminals, Widespread Panic, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Steve Winwood, Café
Tacvba and Broken Social Scene. Organized by Bonnaroo promoters Superfly
Productions, as well as Another Planet
Entertainment and Starr Hill Presents, the eclectic gathering will take place in
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
from August 22-24. The festival will place special emphasis on the city’s local
talent, boasting appearances by hometown heroes Primus, Two Gallants, The Coup,
The Mother Hips, Goapele, ALO, Matt Nathanson and Sean Hayes. Other confirmed
acts include Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart, Cold War Kids, Andrew Bird, Steel
Pulse, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, M. Ward, Drive-By Truckers, The Cool
Kids, Dredg, Little Brother, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Donavon
Frankenreiter, Black
Mountain, Sidestepper, Nellie
McKay, Goapele, Bon Iver, The Felice Brothers, Rupa & The April Fishes, Back
Door Slam and K’NAAN. Superfly will also look to its own New Orleans roots with performances by Galactic’s
Crescent City Soul Krewe and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk.