Even if you disagree with my initial assertion that this year’s Outside Lands lineup is the best of any multi-day festival this year (I’m still backing that claim), there was no denying by midday Sunday – the 5th annual event’s final third at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park – that at the very least, this last afternoon was on a path to proliferate some of the most stellar sets of the weekend.

Really, though, who would expect anything less from such an immensely talented slate of players – chiefly Franz Ferdinand, Regina Spektor, Jack White and Stevie Wonder – to close out the main stage?

Click here for more photos from Outside Lands.

There were plenty more noteworthy acts to see elsewhere (Big Gigantic, City & Colour, Amadou & Miriam, Santigold and Dispatch all had satellite sets), I was determined not to miss as beat a the massive Lands End stage, planting myself there just in time to hear L.A. group fun. close on a highly energetic cover of the Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”

Read more on Outside Lands on the Soundcheck Blog.

Article and photos by David Hall, for the Orange County Register.

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