The Outside Lands lineup came out today, which means it's time to argue about whether it's good or kinda good or a total disappointment. Overall, we think the lineup is definitely less compelling than last year, but still reasonably strong. Despite a few complaints (see below), the festival's reputation as a rising player on the national circuit will be maintained. Here are five aspects of this year's lineup that particularly stand out to us. (And remember, the festival continues to add acts even after today's announcement.)

1. There's almost no rap.
As in, one act: the throwback hip-hop outfit Jurassic 5. That's it. For being such a popular genre nationally -- and such an influential one regionally -- it's kind of amazing how underrepresented it is at Outside Lands. And anyone who says live rap sucks obviously wasn't at Big Boi's set last year.

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The 2013 Outside Lands lineup is out!

Outside Lands festival organizers today announced the lineup for the 2013 event, and it looks like a big one. Headliners include Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Willie Nelson, Hall & Oates, and more. The festival takes place Aug. 9-11 in Golden Gate Park. Check out the full lineup poster below:

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You recognize this guy, right?

Last week, we rounded up some of the likely big names for this year's Outside Lands lineup, which included Paul McCartney, Phoenix, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Baauer.

The lineup will be announced tomorrow. But before then, festival organizers have been dropping hints on Instagram. Based on those not-so-subtle clues, other acts performing this year will be Grizzly Bear, the National, Willie Nelson, Jurassic 5, and more. Check out the full list of clue leaks below.

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Update, 4/10/13: Outside Lands has started dropping clues about the lineup on Instagram, and so far it looks like Grizzly Bear and Chromatics are also playing this year.

It's official: The Outside Lands lineup will be announced a week from today, on April 16, 2013. And while some hints about this year's bill have spilled out on the Internet so far, it seems high time to round up what we know so far. Here, then are six artists we're pretty sure are on the 2013 Outside Lands lineup -- plus a few solid guesses. This year's festival runs Aug. 9-11 in Golden Gate Park.

1. Paul McCartney
We told you a couple of weeks ago about the Last.fm page that showed McCartney playing Sunday at this year's festival. We don't have any more info than that, but as Macca's camp keeps trickling out more U.S. tour dates for the summer, none of them conflict with Outside Lands -- and none announced so far are in the Bay Area. This seems very likely.

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Christopher Victorio

Paul McCartney at his last show in S.F., July 10, 2010

Update: Asked to comment on the possibility of McCartney at Outside Lands, a spokesperson for Another Planet Entertainment had only this to say: "We expect to announce the Outside Lands 2013 lineup in the coming weeks. Stay tuned."

Paul McCartney is going on tour this summer, and at least one concert info website says he'll be playing this year's Outside Lands festival. Via an anonymous tipper, check out this Last.fm page that says Macca, the great co-founder of the Beatles and a solo legend in his own right, will be playing our own Golden Gate Park this Sunday, Aug. 11.

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* Saturday Night: Paul McCartney at AT&T Park

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The Outside Lands music festival isn't going anywhere -- in fact it's looking to get even bigger in future years. And organizers just announced the dates for next year's festival in Golden Gate Park. Here's hoping you didn't have any wedding plans or European trips scheduled.

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* Slideshow: Faces of the 2012 Outside Lands Festival
* Old Versus New at Outside Lands 2012, With Old the Heavy Favorite
* Outside Lands Festival Wants to Expand, Stay Through 2021

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The crowd at Outside Lands 2012

Good news for fans of Outside Lands: The city of S.F. is considering a contract extension that would keep the music festival in Golden Gate Park until 2021, and would allow even more people to attend.

This year, Outside Lands grew to 65,000 people per day. But the three-day festival hopes to expand to 75,000 as it negotiates a new contract with the city. That's still smaller than other Golden Gate Park festivals, like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

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Christopher Victorio

It was around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night at Outside Lands, when Stevie Wonder and his band went into "Living For the City," that the festival's reverence for the past became most painful.

Over on the Twin Peaks stage, Skrillex, the black-clad millionare monster at the top of EDM food chain, was just about to do his Bladerunner-bass thing. Flocks of younger fans, having already gotten their fill of Stevie, were streaming back across the Polo Fields toward him and the other side of the festival.

Wonder had used the hour he'd been onstage not just to play his own songs, but to invoke the whole 20th century of Black American music: He'd tipped his hat to Michael Jackson with a gorgeous cover of "The Way You Make Me Feel." He'd covered the great bluesman Jimmy Reed. Later he would revisit the Temptations' "My Girl." And of course he played his own songs -- which, like "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)," and "Higher Ground," are more like basic elements of the American atmosphere than mere hits, they appear so regularly in everyday life.

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Christopher Victorio

Beck at Outside Lands

Beck
Beck's "Loser" was an anthem for the disenfranchisement of Generation X. In the early '90s, we expected to have less of everything -- income, opportunity, security, etc. -- than our parents. We were led to believe this was unprecedented in the history of the United States. We were the Nothing Generation, and we would sing it loud and proud.

Flash forward to 2012: College grads are indebted to a financial system that's hijacked the entire planet; good jobs are crazy-hard to find, sustainable careers nearly unthinkable; adult-age children into their mid-20s (at least) still live with their parents. In other words, it's the same as it ever was.

We haven't listened much to Beck since his last appearance at Golden Gate Park in 1996 at the Tibetan Freedom Concert. Back then he was rocking his post-"Loser" white-boy-in-a-white-suit act, making happy-funky time. If his performance at Outside Lands was any indication of what he's up to now, it's not much worth listening to. We hear he's a Scientologist. Maybe that explains the lackadaisical energy. He doesn't care anymore. He's already booked his first-class suite on the mothership to carry him home when the time is right.

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This guy.

One thing crowds at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival do pretty well is get down.

Despite the relentless wind, heavy fog, and numbing temperatures, we saw plenty of good moves last weekend -- and some ridiculously silly enthusiasm from certain crowd members. (It helped that Big Boi stuck to playing his bass-heavy hits.)

Here, compiled and edited by Ian S. Port and Andrew Nilsen, are the six funniest moves we saw at Outside Lands -- in GIF form, naturally.

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