Another Planet Entertainment, the organizer of Outside Lands, announced a major new addition to this year's lineup on Tuesday, as well as the day-to-day lineups, just ahead of single-day tickets going on sale. Also, Vampire Weekend is planning two sets on Saturday.

The one and only Beck will be helping to kick off this year's Outside Lands, joining the lineup for Friday, August 8, with a performance backed by a symphony orchestra — officially billed as Beck with Symphony.

This will be a 10th gig for Beck in what was originally announced as a nine-city tour in March, in which he's accompanied "native orchestras" in each city. (So, presumably, members of the San Francisco Symphony will be put to work here? He has also performed with the Berkeley Symphony once already, at the Greek Theater last summer.) Per a release, the concerts with full orchestra backing are intented to "reimagine a body of work that includes hits and deep cuts from classic Beck works including the multi-platinum Odelay, world-tripping Mutations, somber and reflective Sea Change, and GRAMMY Album of the Year winner Morning Phase, plus a share of surprises."

Beck just performed last month in London at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He will head to San Francisco following a San Diego show on July 29 that was originally the concluding stop on the North American leg of his tour.

Other Friday headliners are Doja Cat (who, we could guess, will be programmed opposite Beck on one of the two larger stages), DJ/producer John Summit, and Grammy winner Doechii. Also playing Friday are Thundercat and MARINA.

Tyler, the Creator and Vampire Weekend are headlining Saturday, August 9, along with Gracie Abrams, Gesaffelstein, and Ludacris. We're now told that Vampire Weekend plans to do two sets on Saturday, both an opening set on the Lands End Stage in the early afternoon, as well as a closing set that night — something that will likely mean more people trying to enter the festival early on Saturday.

And on Sunday, August 10, the headliners will be Hozier, Anderson.Paak & the Free Nationals, Glass Animals, and Jamie xx. Also playing Sunday are Big Freedia, Neal Francis, and Billie Eilish's brother and collaborator FINNEAS.

On Monday, we learned that Julien Baker and Torres had bowed out of Outside Lands due to a health issue, and it's not yet clear who may be added to the lineup in their stead.

See the complete daily lineups here.

Presales have begun for single-day tickets for Chase cardholders, and the general on-sale date is tomorrow, May 7, at 10 am. Three-day general admission tickets ($539) are still available, as are GA+ three-day passes ($799), but VIP three-day passes are now sold out and there is a waitlist.

The three-day ticket prices are going to go up soon.

Here's hoping for fewer yellowjackets in the park this year!

Top image: Beck performs with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Edwin Outwater at the Royal Albert Hall on April 19, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns)

Photo credit: sfjim123/Flickr

Once again this past Saturday, it was Anonymous versus Scientology as people gathered at the SCS headquarters in San Francisco to celebrate L. Ron Hubbard's birthday by protesting the religious, money-making pyramid schemes he founded.

And just like last month's anti-Scientology bash, those Guy Fawkes masks used in the film version of V for Vendetta were all the rage.

As some readers have already pointed out, Saturday's collision of death at Dolores Park should prove interesting. With a bevy of corpses available for you to express yourselves, which one will you choose?

In addition to the "Thriller" dance record-breaking attempt at Dolores Park, Saturday's Antiwar march, starting at Civic Center at 11 a.m., will end up smack-dab at the same recreational area. Once there, the "Fall Out Against the War" marchers (another worldwide event happening on the same day) will stage a (symbolic) die-in "to bring home the 2 million Iraqis who have died, the 500,000 who are now refugees, and the nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers who have died for an occupation that only benefits weapons manufacturers and oil corporations."

That's a lot of dead bodies scattered around DP this Saturday. Mind your step.


"Thriller" rehearsal image: btobin's flick stream; die-in pic: Glenn Beck

We totally missed this, but yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of probably the most famous home run in Giants history since "the Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant" home run, the Brian Johnson home run. Sure, there's been more important one's and there's all those Barry home runs, but nothing brings a smile to a Giants fan more than that home run. How could it not? It was an extra innings game deep in an improbable pennant race against the hated Dodgers, hit by some random dude just acquired a few weeks before, and it came right after the late and great Rod Beck's derring-do in getting out of a bases loaded no-out jam. It was an epic ending to an epic game in an epic season. Well, except for the end of it. Since everybody else is reminiscing, we thought we would too.

We were at work that day and trying to pay attention to the game while also working, not so easy back in those prehistoric days of '97 when there was no radio feed, just some ESPN Gamecast that was slow and clunky and very capable of slowing down your entire computer as it updated, something that wasn't so cool when your boss occasionally sat down in your cubicle to check in on your work. Whenever it looked like something exciting was about to happen, we ran downstairs to our friend's cubicle who was listening to the game on her radio. Sometime in the tenth, as Beck started to get himself into a pickle of a jam, our friend called us to let us know something was up and we just gave up on our work and ran downstairs to listen. By that time, half of her department had the game on, listening as Rodney got himself in and out of trouble. When Eddie Murray hit into the double play, ending the inning, several of us yelled out loud and cheered. By that time, I was too wrapped up in the game and basically spent the rest of the game in our friend's department, too stressed out to go back up to work. When Johnson hit his home run, we didn't jump, didn't shout. We just gave a long sigh of relief and went back to our desk while wearing one, big huge smile.

It's moments like that that makes us love baseball so much.

Oh, yeah-- the Giants and A's both lost.

So why Brooklyn? Well, it's a little bit of a non-sequitor and we like non sequiturs. Also, because baseball is about tradition and the passing of baseball lore from father to son and SFist's father grew up a fan of Dem Bums, going to games with his father at Ebbets Field. As a result, SFist spent much of their childhood hearing stories about the Duke, Pee Wee, and Preacher Roe (God, whatever happened to all those awesome baseball names?). It also reminds people that while a veritable cottage industry has grown up memorializing the Brooklyn Dodgers, the same doesn’t exist about the moving of the Giants from the Polo Grounds. The Dodgers and Peter O'Malley are still cursed to this day in Brooklyn for breaking everyone in one of the five boroughs' hearts. The name, then, is a constant reminder of the Dodgers Original Sin, their Scarlet A as it were. And finally, it's because it's the name of one of Posh & Beck's kids. Whatever that's worth.

So congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who played. Oh, and Beat LA!

Barack Obama!!! So adorable! The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois stopped by our neck of the woods yesterday on a PR stunt community outreach project by the SEIU, where presidential candidates shadow a union worker for a day. (Next up, Hillary Clinton, who'll be following around a nurse (though probably not in Northern California). The jokes kind of write themselves.)

Obama was assigned to follow Pauline Beck, an Alameda home healthcare worker, and, as Beck's client dryly remarked in the YouTube clip, "she put him to work." Obama swept up, dusted, mopped, washed dishes, did laundry, and made some beds. Entertainingly-tart Michelle Obama's going to have a great time mocking her husband over this one; we've collected all of Obama's quotable quotes on the topic:

--"My wife says my making the bed is a little shaky. The laundry and the breakfast, I can handle."
--"My wife's going to see all this and say, 'How come you don't do this at home?' I'm going to tell her I'm running for president. She's too smart to run for president. ... She just wants to tell the president what to do."
--"I probably haven't mopped a floor since I started my Senate race," with the hastily-added clarification, "Before that, that wasn't something I was averse to doing."

Why Barack put the butter away after breakfast? LOVE!!

Still from the SEIU's YouTube clip of Barack Obama assisting Pauline Beck yesterday.

Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series in '97, the Brian Johnson series, completely ruined the Dodgers for ten years. Long story short, the series devastated the team that season and knocked them out of the playoffs, making it easier for Fox to buy the Dodgers and promptly trash the franchise. Good stuff. Anyhoo, the Enchanter got Cained (our new verb for when a pitcher pitches a good game only to lose due to the Giants ineptitude) as the bullpen gave up four runs in the eighth to lose the game. The damage was done by Messer’s Kline and Messenger and is it us or does Randy Messenger look like a taller, skinner Turtle from "Entourage." As for Bonds, he did nothing of much importance but we couldn’t help but notice that when he hit what looked like a decent shot at hitting the homer, the fans stood up in excitement only to see it turn into just another fly out. When he was taken out, a huge portion of fans left the stadium and yes, it is fairly typical of Dodgers fans, but it was still a 3-2 game at the time.

And one more thing-- sadly police say that they found traces of cocaine in Rod Beck's house when they investigated his suicide. When we heard about his death, that was unfortunately one of the first things we thought of, that it was somewhat related to drugs even though we really hoped it wasn't. It was.

A's 3 Tigers 2- Yeah, the A's won, but the thing we're more concerned with is that the Yankees are now only two behind the Indians for the wild card spot (and three behind the Tigers). Jesus Frickin' Christ, people, won't that team go down? They're the Jason Voorhees of baseball-- everytime you think they're killed they keep on coming back. With the Giants out and the A's out, there was nothing more we were looking forward to than some serious Yankees schadenfreude and now we can't even get that. So, anyways, go Tribe!

Beck earned the fans love for two things in particular. In '93, in the midst of that dogfight of a pennant race, he went out day after day after day to save games despite the fact he had nothing left in his arm. Then, in '97, he infamously escaped out of that bases loaded and no out jam in the Brian Johnson Game through sheer guts and guile. As he walked off he pumped his fist and screamed out in exultation, mirroring the emotions of everyone who either watched or listened.

For all that, Giants fans loved Shooter. And for all that, Giants' fans mourn his death. Rod Beck was a true Giant through and through.

This one's for a Saturday screening (6:15 p.m. at the Kabuki) of , an uplifting music performance documentary featuring performances by Elvis Costello, Beck, Beth Orton, Sonic Youth, and Philip Glass (and many others), all working through the 1920s and 30s folk and blues discography compiled by musical archivist Harry Smith. You know all that music that Steve Buscemi collects in Ghost World? Like that.

Enter our contest to win free tickets (for you and a guest) to Saturday's screening! And if you win, come look for us -- we're totally planning on being there ourselves. This movie sounds awesome.