The promoters of San Francisco's second annual music and arts festival, Outside Lands, must have good karma. Day One of the three-day event was perhaps the city's most beautiful summer day in years. Attendees arrived to a sunshine filled Golden Gate Park, normally socked in by coastal fog all year round./ Read more
Dodos singer/guitarist Meric Long once ran the show solo as a one-man acoustic act known as Dodobird until he became inspired by his studies of West African Ewe drumming. Interested in creating drum-centric music with accompaniment from an acoustic guitar, Long met drummer Logan Kroeber and added him to the mix in mid-2006, eventually changing the band’s moniker to The Dodos[ tickets ]./ Read more