Radiohead, Petty Play Outside

Radiohead, Tom Petty, Jack Johnson headlining new music festival in San Francisco this summer

By Josh Grossberg Mar 04, 2008 6:11 PMTags

San Francisco is the right place for Radiohead.

The alterna-rockers will join Tom Petty and Jack Johnson in headlining the inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival set to take place in the city's famed Golden Gate Park Aug. 22-24, Billboard reports.

The three-day event is a coproduction of Superfly Productions and Starr Hill Presents—the folks behind Bonnaroo and Vegoose Music Festival—along with Planet Entertainment, which organized the Treasure Island Music Festival.

Outside will sport five stages featuring dozens of rock, blues, jazz, electronic, reggae, DJs, singer-songwriters, hip-hop and world music acts along with a variety of visual artists, eclectic food and other attractions.

Additional acts will be announced in the coming weeks, but organizers are expecting to attract an average of 60,000 attendees each day. Tickets go on sale at the end of March.

Radiohead and Johnson also lead the lineup for the first annual All Points West Festival scheduled for Aug. 8-10 at Liberty State Park near New York. That jamboree is being produced by the people behind Southern California's Coachella Festival.

Johnson, whose last album, Sleep Through the Static, has dominated the pop charts in the past several weeks, is also slated as a headliner at this year's edition of Coachella, being held Apr. 25-27, along with Roger Waters, Kraftwerk, the Verve and the Raconteurs.

Meanwhile, fans of country music have a festival of their own to look forward to.

Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Dwight Yoakam, Sugarland and Jewel are among the country superstars topping the bill of the CMA Music Festival, Nashville's four-day musical extravaganza set for June 5-8.

"What's amazing about this year's lineup is that we have artists who are fan favorites, those who support the event year after year, coming to perform once again, as well as an outstanding list of artists who are making their first appearance or returning to our event after time away," said CMA's CEO, Tammy Genvese, in a statement.

More than 400 artists and celebrities will be on hand for the concerts, which organizers hope will draw upward of 191,000 during those four days in downtown Nashville.