Ep. 48 Outside Lands 2026 Lineup Reaction

This episode is our Outside Lands 2026 lineup reaction! We pull up the poster together and talk through our favorite artists, surprises, and early thoughts on the lineup.

Outside Lands is August 7–9 in San Francisco. Going? Let us know in the comments!

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Transcript

Cold Open And No Spoilers

Vanessa 0:00

Hey Sunny.

Sunny 0:01

Yeah, Vanessa?

Vanessa 0:02

What do you call two best friends that love music festivals?

Sunny 0:05

Hmm. I guess you'd call them festies.

Clark 0:32

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Sunny 0:45

Wait, do you have it up right there?

Clark 0:47

Yeah.

Sunny 0:47

Why?

Clark 0:48

I just pulled it up. What do you want to do?

Vanessa 0:50

Did you see something?

Sunny 0:51

Yeah.

Vanessa 0:52

Oh, who cares? What you saw the whole thing. You saw every name.

Clark 0:55

How do you

Sunny 0:56

Are you recording?

Clark 0:56

I'm recording right now.

Sunny 0:58

Sorry.

Clark 0:59

You're acting like I just said we're live.

Sunny 1:01

Also, Vanessa can see the screen and

Vanessa 1:03

I can't see shit. You're the one that saw it. I can't see it. Clark's in the way.

Clark 1:07

It's fine. It's been pulled up since before. So don't. It's okay.

Sunny 1:10

Wait, have you looked at it already?

Vanessa 1:12

Clark's not in this. I'm just kidding.

Clark 1:14

Oh my god, guys. Dear lord. Okay, we're recording, so we can

Vanessa 1:20

Clark's mad at us.

Clark 1:21

Oh my god. Jeez. It's up.

Vanessa 1:25

Just look at me. Sunny eye contact with me over here. Look over here. Don't look over there. Okay. Don't look at the lineup.

The Lineup Drops Early

Clark 1:29

Okay, doing do an intro.

Sunny 1:31

Oh, an intro?

Vanessa 1:32

No, this is the intro. The outside line. The outside lands lineup just dropped an hour earlier than we thought it was going to. That's fine for us because we're already here recording. But we haven't looked at it. Actually, I think I saw one name. Because I opened up the Instagram and it was right there. And I was like, not yet.

Sunny 1:54

Do we say the one name that we saw on three? Yeah. Okay. One, two, three. Disco lines.

Headliners That Hit Hard

Vanessa 1:58

Turnstile. Turnstile. You saw disco lines? Yeah. Okay. Let's just open it. Or what should we do? Okay, this is our live reaction. Oh, or like what is it? First reaction. what am I trying to say?

Sunny 2:14

Immediate? I don't know.

Vanessa 2:16

Real time. Real time.

Sunny 2:17

Real time. Okay, so I'm going to their website.

Vanessa 2:20

Oh, I just took they texted it to me.

Sunny 2:22

Oh, aren't you? Are you like special?

Vanessa 2:24

No, you signed up for the thing too.

Sunny 2:26

They did text me too. Yeah. Okay.

Vanessa 2:29

Okay, okay, okay, okay. Oh, wow. Ooh. Yeah, this is. Oh wait, what? Sunny, you're gonna die. Can I say it? Do you have it up yet?

Sunny 2:41

Yeah, I do.

Vanessa 2:42

Oh. Griztronics.

Sunny 2:44

Ow.

Clark 2:45

That's sick.

Vanessa 2:46

Okay, the names in the middle. They did it like last year where they had the big names in the middle and then the other acts on each side. So Charlie XCX, Rufus du Sol, The Strokes, The XX, Baby Keem, Turnstile, Griz tronics, which is Subtronics and Griz, DJO, Labrinth, Empire of the Sun, and Dijon. What do we think?

Clark 3:14

That's sick.

Vanessa 3:14

That's she's reading the other names. Sorry. I'm not even paying attention.

Clark 3:19

That's dope because it's like that's such a good spread of a bunch of different stuff.

Vanessa 3:24

Yeah. Rufus and the strokes, those are gonna be at Bonnaroo.

Clark 3:29

Yeah, that's a sick mixture of genres.

Sunny 3:31

I hate that this is the first thing I thought, but and I know I'm not in the no because I'm old, but I am surprised to see Charlie XCX at the top. Yeah, is she the main headliner?

Clark 3:40

I'm not I'm not surprised by that at all.

Vanessa 3:43

I get it, but I am a little surprised.

Sunny 3:45

I just saw her at Coachella and she was not headlining, and she hasn't put out an album since then, has she?

Vanessa 3:52

Like you said, we're not in the no.

Undercard Gems And Surprises

Sunny 3:54

I know, I know. But I mean, I'm all about her, like the attitude and the vibe, but I just don't like the music, and I wish I did. That's all right. Are you gonna read the other ones? Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Vanessa 4:05

No, I'm so bad at reading them. I know, me too.

Clark 4:08

Well, what are ones that are jumping out to y'all?

Vanessa 4:10

Yeah, let's just see the ones that jump out.

Sunny 4:11

Oh, Death Cap for Cutie. Popcorn. But Death cab for cutie, they have a daytime set and an evening set. Where do you see that? All the way at the bottom. It says Death Cab for Cutie and bold, and then has a sun and a moon.

Vanessa 4:24

Sun and the moon. Okay, I'm not recognizing any of the other names on this side.

Sunny 4:29

Okay, so we have Modest Mouse that jumps out to me.

Vanessa 4:33

Oh, Lane 8.

Sunny 4:34

The temper trap that bounce that bounces. 

Clark 4:38

That jumps out to you.

Vanessa 4:40

Oh, Goldie, Goldie Boutilier Boutilier. I don't know how you say her, but she's gonna be at Bonnaroo. We wanted to see her last year, and then everything got canceled. And so

Sunny 4:50

wait, is Clipse Pharrell?

Clark 4:52

I mean, they probably won't have Pharrell with them. He's just their producer most of the time. But that's Pusha T and his brother.

Sunny 4:59

Right, right, right.

Vanessa 4:59

Wasn't Haute and Freddy there last year? Or where did you guys see Haute and Freddy? Oh, at Portola there.

Clark 5:04

Yeah, so that's dope to see him.

Vanessa 5:06

Boys Noize. Oh, Boys Noize. Sierra Ferrell, she's country.

Clark 5:11

Oh, yeah, yeah. I've seen stuff about her.

Vanessa 5:13

God, why I don't know any other no other names or oh, it's Murph. I've heard of them. Or him. I don't even know.

Sunny 5:20

KingFishr.

Vanessa 5:20

Wet leg. What'd you say?

Sunny 5:23

What'd you just call me?

Vanessa 5:24

Did you say Fisher?

Sunny 5:25

Kingfishr.

Vanessa 5:26

Oh, Kingfishr. Oh, die Spitz. That's funny. Tobiahs. MPH. Looks like you're gonna have a lot of homework to do, Sunny.

Sunny 5:37

A ton of homework.

Vanessa 5:40

If you haven't heard our podcast before, by that we mean she's gonna have to go through and like learn all these artists because she doesn't know half of them or more than half of them.

Clark 5:52

It's only when it gets to like the really small, like

Vanessa 5:55

No, I only know like I only know the mint names in the middle, and not even all of them, just like one, two, three, four, five, six.

Clark 6:06

This looks like just like such a dope diversity, though. Because of the names I know, maybe I don't know their music super well, but some of the stuff I'm seeing, it's like there's a lot of cool dance music, but then also like rock bands that are getting really big, but then like some older rock like Geese. I haven't seen Temper Trap on a lineup in a long time. Like that'll be super cool to see them. I haven't heard anything from them in a long, long time.

Sunny 6:36

What about

Vanessa 6:37

I get goose and geese confused? Is goose

Sunny 6:41

geese is the plural of goose

Vanessa 6:43

I understand, but there's two groups or bands. I don't even know what it is.

Genre Mix And Bonnaroo Overlap

Clark 6:47

Geese is like a rock band.

Vanessa 6:48

Ed loves one of them, and I can't remember which one it is. I think it's the older one. I like geese's newer.

Clark 6:53

I will tell you what I what I believe is the the truth of that is geese is like a rock band, and goose is like a funky, like think like lettuce.

Vanessa 7:06

Oh boy.

Clark 7:07

Did any either of y'all say Glorilla?

Sunny 7:09

Yes.

Vanessa 7:09

Wait, I didn't see her on there. What?

Clark 7:11

Yeah, she's right underneath disco lines.

Vanessa 7:14

I read it as gorilla. Is it Glorilla?

Clark 7:17

Yeah. Well, it's not gorillas.

Vanessa 7:19

Oh my god.

Sunny 7:21

You're making it sound like we don't know who that is. We know who that is. Who? Glorilla?

Vanessa 7:26

No, I read it as Gorilla, so I was like, who's Gorilla? Glorilla.

Clark 7:31

Glorilla.

Vanessa 7:32

Get him, Glow. Ooh, DJ Trixie Mattel.

Clark 7:37

Yeah, Trixie Mattel on there. That's sick. I'm stoked that the XX is on there because they've all kind of been doing their separate things.

Sunny 7:45

Tinashe? I just noticed that too.

Clark 7:48

That's dope.

Vanessa 7:49

I'm blind. Snowstrippers. They're gonna be a boner, too.

Sunny 7:55

The outside lands reveal episode is always just so disjointed. So all over the place. Even after I've gone through this so slow as we're recording, I'll still see names later that I didn't notice.

Vanessa 8:13

Just long pauses.

Clark 8:14

I yeah, because we're like really fixated.

Vanessa 8:17

I feel like I haven't really been that excited about Outside Lands Lineup in a while. Not to say that they're not good. I just don't really know a lot of the new artists or people that are doing all the festivals now.

Sunny 8:28

I feel the same way. I mean, is there a lot of overlap with Bonnaroo here?

Vanessa 8:32

yeah, Rufus and

Clark 8:36

headliner stuff.

Vanessa 8:37

Yeah, and then I wanna say wet leg and yeah, I think wet leg are turnstile.

Clark 8:44

They're kind of different.

Vanessa 8:45

I think geese also Goldie.

Sunny 8:50

Oh, but you guys get Griz.

Vanessa 8:52

I was gonna say, do we have Griz? I haven't I didn't I couldn't remember if Griz was on there or not.

Clark 8:58

I think y'all really like Labrinth. Labrinth is gonna be sick.

Sunny 9:01

What kind of music?

Clark 9:02

He's like a British artist, and he does kind of rap stuff, but then does like some electronic kind of music too. Like you'll really like it.

Vanessa 9:10

Okay. I think Modest Mouse will also be at Bonnaroo this year.

Clark 9:14

Yeah. I'm excited to see them at a festival.

Vanessa 9:18

I think that's also what kind of adds to the not as excited is because it's similar to Bonnaroo. Like a whole lot of not a whole lot of new headliners. I mean, yeah, Charlie XCX, she's not gonna be at Bonaroo.

Who Feels Like A Legend Now

Clark 9:33

Yeah, but it seems like the last couple years too. I think the biggest thing for for us, especially like kind of the the age that we're at too, is like there's kind of this transition period for us of who the legendary acts like who's We're getting old. Who's considered a legendary act is like in a transition right now.

Vanessa 9:58

Empire of the Sun. They're oh oh is it in a transition?

Clark 10:02

Like, I think it's in a transition from when we think about like, well, yeah, it's not gonna be Paul McCartney or Elton John, right? Like of these like old much older generations, right? But that's not to say that the headliners aren't dope. I think the main thing is like for me looking at this lineup, the diversity of genre in it is so sick.

Sunny 10:27

Yeah. The strokes are the legendary act here.

The Strokes Outside Lands Story

Clark 10:31

Yeah. Based on the last time we saw the strokes at Outside Lands, I'm probably gonna see whatever else is out there.

Sunny 10:40

Yeah.

Clark 10:40

Because it was just like a bad vibe.

Sunny 10:42

It was right after COVID.

Clark 10:44

Yes.

Vanessa 10:45

Or yeah, because I went to that one and I remember seeing them.

Sunny 10:47

He complained about not being let into a restaurant that day. Because he only had one shot and not two, and people literally turned around and walked away. Like he was not flying well with people at that time.

Vanessa 11:05

I mean, yeah, now that sounds ridiculous, but at the time, yeah,

Sunny 11:08

especially in the Bay Area, like people were taking it serious, you know, and he just came off like he just came off like a dick, you know?

Clark 11:15

Yeah, it really felt like leaning into the old school like rock badass mentality, but it just felt douchey.

Sunny 11:24

you don't want to protect our city, get out of here.

Clark 11:26

Yeah, and but besides besides that, in between every single song, oh yeah, he was on the mic, like, hey, like, can it be louder? Why isn't it loud? It just sounded petulant at a certain point. Like, hey, dude, you do this for a living and you're super professional, and you just sound like a spoiled brat, honestly. We're talking so much shit. I mean, whatever. Like, oh, this is gonna get back to the strokes. And then they're never gonna come on here. Yeah, yeah.

Vanessa 11:56

No, we don't want them on here. They only had one shot. No, I'm just kidding.

Clark 12:01

They sounded great though.

Vanessa 12:02

I bet you when he said that in other places they were cheering, like in the Midwest. They're like, fuck that, yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Sunny 12:08

I was in San Francisco and I didn't couldn't go to a restaurant because I only had one shot.

Clark 12:14

It was like read the room. Yeah, I think yeah, I'm I'm stoked on this mixture.

Sunny 12:22

Yeah, sorry, back to this

More Women On The Poster

Clark 12:23

for sure. Dance music, rock, alternative rap, dubstep, singer-songwriter. Right, yeah, it's like this the just these names in the middle. Like it's all over the place. Only thing I could use more of is female artist.

Sunny 12:43

the headliner.

Clark 12:44

Yeah, but no, like, and the XX has a female vocalist, and that's kind of it.

Sunny 12:49

Yeah. Well, by the time this comes out. What? Yeah, of course. I would go. The only thing that would keep us from going, and this is my worst nightmare, is that one of our friends or family are gonna decide to get married that weekend. Oh, we're gonna have to miss it. Yeah, that is like my worst. My life must be pretty good if this is my worst nightmare.

Vanessa 13:10

Next year, my wedding is on this weekend.

Sunny 13:12

No, do not

Clark 13:13

Stoop.

Sunny 13:16

True test of festie friendship. Yeah.

Vanessa 13:20

My ultimate loyalty test.

Sunny 13:22

Like, oh, we can go one day.

Clark 13:24

We're obviously gonna beat outside lands.

Vanessa 13:26

Trust me, I know.

Clark 13:30

Stoop.

Sunny 13:31

what number will this be for me? 14.

Clark 13:34

14, yeah.

Sunny 13:36

Yes.

Vanessa 13:37

I will most likely not be there.

Sunny 13:40

Not till 2027.

Vanessa 13:41

But 2027 for sure. Unless I'm pregnant or have a baby.

Sunny 13:49

Bring the baby. If I'm pregnant, I'll still go if I have the baby. No.

Clark 13:54

you know what? I'm also oh man, like, I'm really stoked for that death cab for cutie morning and night.

Sunny 14:01

Yeah.

Vanessa 14:02

Let us know what you guys think about this lineup, Festies.

Sunny 14:05

Yes. I also want to officially invite our good friend Mickey to come on the podcast because I think he's the only one we know that has been more times than I have.

Vanessa 14:15

Oh, wow.

Clark 14:16

True.

Sunny 14:17

So we would love to have him on.

Vanessa 14:18

Yeah.

Sunny 14:19

And then what did you just say, Vanessa? Sorry.

Vanessa 14:22

let us know if you like the lineup. Oh.

Clark 14:26

Yeah, yeah. Who are who are you most excited to see if you're going to outside lands?

Tickets Pricing And Listener Picks

Sunny 14:30

Who are you surprised by? Who are the must see? Are you going? Yeah, by the time this comes out, tickets will already have been released. three days starting at 509 for general remission, GA plus 779. VIP three day is 1249. And the Golden Gate Club, in collaboration with Ken Fulk, is 5,096 bucks. And but I think you get like fed all weekend. Really pampered. Are we all done talking about it?

Vanessa 15:08

Yeah.

Sunny 15:08

That was super all over the place, but that's okay. Outside lands does that to us. Close this out, Vanessa.

Wrap Up And Where To Follow

Vanessa 15:15

Okay, Festies.

Sunny 15:22

See you at Outside Lands.

Vanessa 15:24

All right, Festies. Sunny, will see you at Outside Lands. I won't be there, but come find her. Get your tickets, and make sure you're following us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Festies Podcast. Please leave us a rating and review wherever you listen to us. That really helps out the show. And we'll talk to you next time. Bye.

Sunny 15:43

Bye.

Clark 15:44

Bye.