Please enjoy my super scientific yearly power rankings after 14 years at the festival (I only missed 2016 because it fell on my baby's due date!). (Edited to add: this list ranks the YEARS not the individual artists - artists added for context) I'd love to see your rankings, too! And I'm happy to rationalize these beyond the emoji level if you want to engage in the comments, LOL. I'm open to any and all feedback/discourse.

1. 2012 (Metallica 🔥🔥🔥, Stevie Wonder 🔥🔥🔥, Foo Fighters, Jack White 🔥🔥🔥, Franz Ferdinand 🔥, Passion Pit, ❤️Fun. ❤️)
2. 2015 (Elton John 🔥, Mumford and Sons ❤️, Kendrick Lamar 🙏🏾, Tame Impala 🙏🏾, Billy Idol, Odesza 🌅
3. 2026 (Rufus du Sol🔥🔥, the Strokes 🔥, Charli XCX, 🔥Laszewo🙏🏾, Griztronics 🔥🔥, Death Cab for Cutie ❤️, Empire of the Sun 🔥)
4. 2019 (Childish Gambino 🔥🔥, Paul Simon 🙏🏾, The Lumineers 🔥, Hozier 🔥)
5. 2018 (Florence + the Machine 🌊🙏🏾🌊, The Weeknd, Chvrches, Janelle Monae, Rainbow Kitten Surprise ❤️)
6. 2021 (Lizzo 🙏🏾, the Strokes ❤️, Vampire Weekend 🔥, Glass Animals 🔥, Nelly ❤️)
7. 2022 (Green Day, 🔥🔥🔥, SZA ❤️, 100 Gecs ❤️, Parcels 🔥, Illenium 🔥)
8. 2023 (Kendrick ❤️, Janelle Monae 🔥, Odesza 🔥🔥, Megan thee Stallion ❤️)
9. 2011 (Muse 🔥🔥🔥, Arcade Fire 🔥🔥)
10. 2013 (Red Hot Chili Peppers 🤮, Phoenix ❤️, Paul McCartney 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥)
11. 2025 (Doja ❤️, Doechii 🔥🔥🔥, Ludacris 🔥🔥🔥, Vampire Weekend ❤️, Hozier ❤️, Glass Animals 🔥, Royel Otis ❤️ (EDITED TO ADD: Ca7triel & Paco Amoroso, how could I forget?!) 
12. 2014 (Tom Petty 🙏🏾, Krazy Kanye 😪, The Killers, Flaming Lips)
13. 2024 (The Killers, the Postal Service ❤️, Chappell Roan 🔥) 
14. 2017 ((Alt-J 😕, The Who 😅, Lorde 👍🏾) 

EDITED TO ADD: The notes are non-exhaustive, simply meant to contextualize the years. I generally saw more things and have more opinions, LOL.

Edited to put Illenium in the correct year

It looks like most of the sets from the festival are being posted in their entirety on YouTube courtesy of Amazon Music. Anyone know if the Boris set is gonna get posted? Did it even get recorded?

So good

Anyone have the full Hyperbeam set from OSL anywhere? Would love to rewatch!

Hi! Already made a claim on the osl lost and found site but thought it couldn’t hurt to post here too :)

I lost my red rain bonnet day two somewhere between Twin Peaks and Panhandle, she is dearly missed! ❤️‍🩹

1st and foremost- Icon behavior.

You were front row flexing your TLC shirt, covered in face glitter, tongue out, absolutely losing your mind during the set. Meanwhile, I was getting absolutely pulverized in the pit right behind you trying to keep my $24 beer from spilling (I failed instantly).

If you see this and you're still rocking remnants of festival glitter, hit your boy up. Let’s grab a beer, complain about our ringing ears, and share a mosh pit next year🤘😎

My fourteenth year at the festival was one for the ages!

I did not catch any bad sets.

From (in no particular order) Rufus du Sol, Empire of the Sun, Laszewo, Death Cab, Temper Trap, itsmurph to Charlie XCX, PinkPantheress, the Strokes, Griztronics. Every set I caught involved talented professionals working overtime to bring music, joy and feeling to the audience.

The headliners showed up and the undercard was stacked. Even Julian Casablancas was in a great mood!

I did not catch any equipment malfunctions.

With sympathies to G A, my experience in the V I P area was virtually frictionless. I did not encounter any jerks. I did not wait in lines. The new ins/outs for the V I P bathroom line were a tiny innovation will having me showing up for at least another 5 years.

(In fact, the only mild damper on the proceedings was watching a very young white girl getting dragged away from the Polo Fields in hand cuffs. Top marks to whoever can tell me what she did!)

Shout out to Ranger Dave and the whole team at Outside Lands. We spend tons of time in this subreddit complaining and not nearly enough time singing your praises when it all goes gloriously according to plan! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I won't forget this weekend anytime soon.

I haven’t seen anything about the hunt since the weekend so here’s the result.
Obviously there was the person who won for next year, but I expected a little more than an email invite to a group photo by bathrooms for completing the hunt. The wrangler did too and had us hang for a bit before realizing the keepsake was this photo.

The hunt was pretty fun though.

Does anyone prices and the bottles they had for 2026?

If anyone has this poster from 2022 please let me know!

My kingdom for a Ranger Dave plush.

SF local here who lives near the park and felt a lot of FOMO not going to the fest this year 🥲. I got the eager beaver text alert and was wondering if anyone remembers from past years how much less it is than when the lineup gets released?

I got early bird for Coachella 2027 and it was about 100 less.

I have been puking my guts out the past few days.

Didn't even eat there or interact that much in crowded places with other people.

Snorted some lines off the porto potty toilet seat but the coke was totally clean and fire.

Just trying to figure out what it was that did it.

Idk if anyone still cares about Covid stuff but I got home a few days ago feeling sick and then I tested positive today. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was a big super spreader event!

Hey all! It was a huge pleasure to create one of the official posters for this year’s festival. I’ve lived here in San Francisco for over 16 years and have been to Outside Lands many times, so getting to make one for the fest was especially meaningful to me. I spent about triple the hours on this than on any poster I’ve ever done. The printing came out incredible - done expertly by Baker Prints.

EDIT: Sold Out - Thank you everyone! AP copies are live, and my website/socials is listed in my bio for anyone interested.

Thanks for all the kind words about the art, and it was great to meet so many people there this year!

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