Are you ready to rock? I said… ARE YOU READY TO EFFIN’ ROCK!? Okay then.

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1. Muse - Plug In Baby
2. The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
3. The Black Keys - Stack Shot Billy
4. Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
5. OK Go - Get Over It
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
7. The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
8. My Morning Jacket - Holdin on to Black Metal
9. Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
10. The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You)
11. Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
12. The Dead 60s - Riot Radio
13. The Strokes - Last Nite
14. The Heavy - No Time
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
16. Arcade Fire - Month of May
17. Foster the People - Houdini
18. Bayside - Duality
19. Say Anything - Do Better
20. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
21. 311 - Beautiful Disaster
22. Run-D.M.C. - Rock Box
23. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
24. The Living End - Carry Me Home
25. Flobots - Rise
26. Vampire Weekend - Everywhere
27. The Presidents of the United States of America - Dune Buggy
28. The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk
29. The Dead Weather - Rocking Horse
30. of Montreal - Our Riotous Defects
31. Soundgarden - My Wave
32. The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly
33. The Shins - Baby Boomerang

This was my second time at Outside Lands and I have to say, it’s definitely gained some traction! When I last went in 2008, the second year of Outside Lands’ existence, the headliners were Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and Beastie Boys (who canceled due to Adam Yauch‘s throat cancer and were replaced with Tenacious D), and while there was a pretty huge turnout, the crowd at this year’s festival was noticeably larger, especially on Saturday with the OK Go, Arctic Monkeys, Black Keys, Muse rockfest.

I’ll go ahead and sum up my feelings in a nice, bulleted, Worms-style awards list, accompanied by some lovely media:

• Sounded Most Like Their Album: TIE – The Shins and MGMT
• Most Spirit: The Limousines for hanging in there even when their sound guy didn’t.
• Best Team Up: Win Butler & Mavis Staples on “The Weight”

• Coolest Look: Arctic Monkeys for their 60′s greaser style
• The Energizer Award: Phish and their 4-hour long set
• Best Performance I Missed: Girl Talk
• Guitar Throwing Champ: Matt Bellamy / Muse

• Most Heard Variations of a Band Name: !!! (“Chk-chk-chk”, “The Punctuation Marks”, etc.)
• Most Unexpectedly Fun Band: OK Go – they don’t need treadmills to rock!
• Band Who Rocked My Socks Off: Black Keys

• Best Non-Mainstage Band: Foster the People – their cover of Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” was AWESOME
• Best Stage: Arcade Fire

There you have it! I’m still hoping Outside Lands finds it in their heart to remedy the situation they placed me in by selling me tickets promising “side stage” or “front of house pit” for Arcade Fire, then sticking me in a packed area 150 feet from the stage behind hundreds of other people and saying sorry. Come on Outside Lands, you can do it!

Oh yeah – remember when I said Vanessa Hudgens was at Outside Lands? I wasn’t lying! She was dancing right next to me during MGMT’s set:

P.S. TUNE IN SUNDAY! I’m back for a week, then gone for two while I skip across to the east coast and then come back and hit BUMBERSHOOT.

 

 

2:07pm: Win Butler from Arcade Fire just joined Mavis Staples on stage to help with a cover of Dylan’s “The Weight”.

3:37pm: Mavis Staples was so much fun. Now milling around in the vicinity of !!! waiting for The Decemberists to start.

4:27pm: Totally forgot that John Fogerty performs before The Decemberists! This should be fun.

5:22pm: John Fogerty is performing “Pretty Woman” — along with his solo and CCR stuff, such a cool act to see.

6:23pm: The Decemberists are on stage now, “The Calamity Song.” Rocking out with a political zinger aimed at Michelle Bachmann. Fun times!

8:17pm: Lame! Purchased tickets to see the act of my choice from front row and… well, you see! Ah well! It’s fucking Arcade Fire!

8:43pm: Okay. Good night. Arcade Fire is rocking.

9:54pm: Backstage:

1:36pm: On my way to Golden Gate Park for day two of Outside Lands. Missed Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, but should be there in time for the start of a pretty epic lineup: OK Go, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, topped off with some Muse. Bummed that Girl Talk is playing during the Muse set at the other end of the huge venue, but I have a feeling it’ll all work out.

3:23pm: OK Go has taken the stage, opening with “Do What You Want”:

3:37pm: Don’t know if you can tell from the photo, but OK Go is dressed in the colors of Google. Corporate much!?

4:18pm: Despite their corporate appearance, OK Go just killed it! Waiting for Arctic Monkeys now.

4:54pm: Arctic Monkeys are kicking ass!!!

5:33pm: Arctic Monkeys are seriously tearing it up. Seriously. Did not play “505,” which I would have loved to hear, but did get a lot of familiar tunes in. Closed with “When the Sun Goes Down.”

6:08pm: Waiting for The Black Keys to take the stage. Made it near the stage, crowd is huge, updates will be minimal because I won’t be able to reach my phone!

7:40pm: Holy CRAP. The Black Keys kicked ass. So much energy! Brought in some extra band members for their newer songs. Now… MUSE.

8:13pm: MUSE. Good night!

4:26pm: Foster the People just finished at the Sutro stage. Awesome band, awesome set. They ended with a cover of Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So”. Can’t go wrong there! On my way to MGMT now, followed by The Shins, then Phish.

MGMT:

5:23pm: MGMT has been playing a good mix of old and new, though the crowd seems to really prefer the old. Lots of dancing during “Electric Feel” and “The Youth”, not so much during anything from Congratulations.

P.S. Vanessa Hudgens was here.

6:13pm: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah rocked it!

6:18pm: The Limousines – poor dudes had their sound go out twice during “Very Busy People.” This stage is 100% solar-powered… maybe the clouds did it!

7:03pm: Phish is covering Led Zep’s “Peaches in Regalia” during the first of their two sets this evening.

7:55pm: Big Audio Dynamite? They’re not from the US but they kick ass! Waiting for The Shins now.

8:45pm: The Shins take the stage!

10:27pm: The Shins rocked, day one of Outside Lands rocked, see ya tomorrow!

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1. Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
2. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
3. My Morning Jacket - Outta My System
4. The White Stripes - Little Cream Soda
5. The Black Keys - Unknown Brother
6. Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
7. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
8. The xx - Teardrops
9. Biffy Clyro - Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
10. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
11. MGMT - Flash Delirium
12. OK Go - Do What You Want
13. The Limousines - Very Busy People
14. Metric - Help I'm Alive
15. The Impossibles - Always Have, Always Will
16. Sublime - Santeria
17. The Heavy - How You Like Me Now
18. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
20. The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told)
21. The Bravery - Unconditional
22. Iron Horse - Unforgiven
23. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
24. Johnny Cash - Hurt
25. Brand New - Guernica
26. Funeral for a Friend - Juneau
27. Modest Mouse - The World at Large
28. Pinback - Good To Sea
29. The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother

Be sure to tune in at 8pm this Sunday for the last CTRL-ALT-Juneau before I head off to San Francisco to hang out at Outside Lands! I’ll be playing a bunch of stuff from the bands that will be making appearances at Outside Lands, like Muse, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, and more.

Next weekend, just stay tuned to KXLL and maybe, just maybe, I can get a call in live from the festival. Maybe. You should just stay tuned to KXLL in any case, really.