Bands mix music and politics at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival

Headliner Janet Jackson’s set began with social messageFlorence and the Machine called for unityThe festival in picturesAmid the tens of thousands of people who attended the 11th annual Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park this weekend, one face stood out, two-dimensionally speaking: Barack Obama’s.The oversized cutout of the former president’s smiling face, taped to a long stick, bobbed above the crowd as fans cheered on the Scottish band ...

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