# San Francisco Bay Area Music Festivals, Vol. One – Outside Lands Kicks Off Today with The Shins, MGMT, CYHSY, Phish, Best Coast

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2011/08/guide-san-francisco-bay-area-music-festivals-vol-lands-kicks-friday-mgmt-cyhsy-shins/
- Published: 2011-08-11T22:35:23-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

Starting today, music lovers in the** San Francisco Bay Area** have three major 
music festivals to look forward to in the next couple of months – Outside Lands;**
Treasure Island** and **Hardly Strictly Bluegrass** festivals.

There are also a bunch of other smaller festivals – we call them “one-off fests,”
such as the **All Shook Down Festiva**l held on August 6th at the **Regency Ballroom**
in San Francisco, where **Crystal Castles** were the headlining band.

At the noon hour today, the **Outside Lands Festival** returns in full force for
its fourth annual fest-bash. Thankfully, OSL reverts back to a three-day fest this
year, after it was trimmed back to only two days last year. We’re going to try and
get an answer as to why it was changed back to three days, since that’s of interest
to many festival goers.

The big headliners for Day One of Outside Lands are **MGMT**, **Phish**, and of 
course **The Shins**, followed by other bands, such as **Toro Y Moi, Clap Your Hands
and Say Yeah** and **Big Audio Dynamite**.

By the time the sun goes down today, there will be only one show left, **The Shins**,
who will come on the Twin Peaks stage at 8:40 pm and play a 70-minute set. And all
the way – say, four or five football fields – at the other end of the festival grounds
closest to the ocean, is the enormous Lands End stage, where Phish are scheduled
to already be two hours into their marathon three and a half hour set. So, by 8:
30 pm everyone will be at either one of those stages.

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As the clock strikes 10 p.m., OSL 2011 Day One will come to a close. Weary, and 
likely cold, festival goers by the tens of thousands of people will funnel out of
Golden Gate Park, many of whom will be returning Saturday for another day and night
of fabulous music, having good times with friends, and meeting new ones, and OSL’s
better-than-most-festival food and drink, and what looks like will be partly cloudy
skies with temps in the low 60s by day, and the low to mid 50s by night.

But then again, you never can be quite sure what you’re going to get in San Francisco–
afterall, it is a weather phenom of it’s own – a sliver of land (only 12 miles from
west to east) surrounded by water on three sides. Sunny blue skies or thick coastal
fog – it’s usually one or the other. There are clouds sometimes in the summer, and
fog as the perfect but just about never is there rainfall in August in the city 
by the bay.

If we’re able to get a signal (keep in mind, we have AT&T), we’ll be sending messages
from the festival via [Twitter](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/indierockcafe38),
and perhaps via our [Facebook](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/indierockcafefb17)
page.

Also, don’t forget to check back for our coverage this weekend of the fourth annual**
Outside Lands Festival** in **San Francisco**‘s magnificent **Golden Gate Park**.
In the meantime, here is a day-by-day listing of which artists and bands we plan
to experience at OSL 2011.

#### Day One – Aug. 12th

The Shins – Phish – Best Coast – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Toro Y Moi – Foster 
The People – Ellie Goulding – MGMT – Phantogram – Tamaryn – The Joy Formidable –
Big Boi

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“Caring is Creepy”_ _ – **The Shins** _ _

[“In This Home On Ice”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/10%20In%20This%20Home%20On%20Ice5.mp3)–**
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah**

#### Day Two – Aug. 13th

The Black Keys – Girl Talk – Muse – The Vaccines – Paper Diamond – The Roots – Arctic
Monkeys – OK GO – STRFKR – SIA – Vetiver – Sonny & The Sunsets – The Mexican Institute
of Sound – Bob Schneider – The Stone Foxes – Ana Tijoux

“Act Nice and Gentle” (The Kinks) – **The Black Keys **from _Rubber Factory_

“Norgaard” – **The Vaccines **from _What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?_

“Triple Double” – **Girl Talk **from [_All Day_](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/girl-talk1)

#### Day Three – Aug. 14th

Arcade Fire – The Decemberists – STSR9 – Beirut – Major Lazer – Wye Oak – Ty Seagall–!!!–
Grouplove – Tuneyards – Lord Huron – The Fresh & Onlys – Junip – John Fogerty

[“The Suburbs”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/burbs3.mp3)– **Arcade
Fire** from _The Suburbs_

[“Ghosen”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/04%20Goshen.mp3) – **Beiru**
t from _The Rip Tide_

_For the full schedule and line-up goto [sfoutsidelands.com](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/sfoutsidelands.com)

San Francisco is known by many names, but our favorite is the air conditioned city,
which for  anyone who’s spent enough time in S.F., knows that it is indeed true,
especially in the summer. It is a rare occurrence that temperatures in the summer
reach 80.

But it’s the western half of the city that has a climate all it’s own – which, even
in the summertime, usually means heavy fog, cool temperatures and chilly winds. 
In fact, when the fog is really thick, and it’s windy too, it is often warmer in**
Wisila**, Alaska than the west side of San Francisco.

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For schedules, maps, tickets, lineup and more, go to**[ San Francisco Outside Lands](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/sfoutsidelands.com)**
website