Author: Tan The Man

Outside Lands Festival 2011: Sunday Recap

Mother Nature seemed to be enjoying the fourth annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park because it gave festivalgoers a second straight day of sun and warm weather on Sunday (August 14, 2011). And maybe Mother Nature was rewarding the City by the Bay after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee proclaimed a day earlier that this weekend (approximately the second weekend in August) would be “Outside Lands weekend forever!” … Continue reading…Outside Lands Festival 2011: Sunday Recap

Outside Lands Festival 2011: Interview with Musicologist Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, or just Tom, is the kind of musicologist who has encyclopedic knowledge of practically every musician, band, or genre. He is a senior editor at All Music Guide and helps keep the Rovi database (which currently stores information on over 3.5 million television programs, 2.9 million album releases and 28 million song tracks, and ½ million movie titles) up-to-date. … Continue reading…Outside Lands Festival 2011: Interview with Musicologist Stephen Thomas Erlewine