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Outside Lands reveals loaded lineup
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
March 24, 2008 at 06:33:00 PM | more stories by this author

Three-day event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park adds Beck, Wilco, Panic, and more to headliners Radiohead, Jack Johnson, and Tom Petty.

One of the newest major music festivals on the block isn't messing around.

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The inaugural Outside Lands festival, set for Aug. 22-24 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, has added a slew of big names to a lineup that already included previously announced headliners Radiohead, Jack Johnson, and Tom Petty.

The producers of Outside Lands, which include Bonnaroo music festival promoter Superfly and Northern California concert giant Another Planet Entertainment, unveiled the rest of the lineup today. The event will feature performances from Beck, Wilco, Widespread Panic, Primus, Manu Chao, Ben Harper, Steve Winwood, Broken Social Scene, Galactic, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

It will also include sets from Black Mountain, Drive-By Truckers, Cafe Tacuba, Devendra Banhart, Regina Spektor, Cold War Kids, Andrew Bird, Steel Pulse, M. Ward, Dredg, the Cool Kids, Grace Potter, Nellie McKay, Bon Iver, Sidestepper, Little Brother, K'Naan, and Donavon Frankenreiter.

In addition to Primus, the event will highlight performances from several San Francisco Bay Area artists, including Lyrics Born, Goapele, Two Gallants, The Coup, The Mother Hips, ALO, Matt Nathanson, and Sean Hayes.

Tickets for Outside Lands go on sale March 30.

As previously reported, the event's organizers plan to pay as much as $1.2 million to the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department if the event is sold out for all three days. The organizers estimate attendance of between 35,000 and 45,000 people per day, not to exceed 60,000 in a day.

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