LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Outside Lands 2018

Eleven years after its debut, the Golden Gate Park extravaganza continues to push away the fog.
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LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Outside Lands 2018

Eleven years after its debut, the Golden Gate Park extravaganza continues to push away the fog.

Words: FLOOD Staff

photos by Adrian Santos

August 15, 2018

Florence + the Machine / photo by Adrian Santos

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The Los Angeles Issue

With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more. 

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Along with weed, women and artists of color jolted new life into the festival, including but certainly not limited to its fiery headliners, The Weeknd, Florence + the Machine, and Janet Jackson. Revisit the electrifying experience of a few of these artists’ sets in the extremely live photos below.

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