We know some of you are heading to Outside Lands this weekend in San Francisco.  If not (yeah, that’s us), there are two festivals coming up in September to sate your music festival desires.  They’re not Glastonbury, but won’t take a 10 hour flight or involve fields of mud and rain (we hope).

First up on September 3rd is the FYF Fest at the Los Angeles State Historic Park in downtown L.A.  Check out the lineup, the highlights of which for us will be Guided by Voices, Broken Social Scene, Girls, The Weakerthans, Explosions in the Sky and Cass McCombs.

And then of course there’s the free three-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco from September 30th to October 2nd.  We attended last year and were enthralled despite the crowds (owing solely to the guidance of HSB veterans’ voices–thanks John!).  This year’s lineup (with more to be added) looks even better than last year.  Amongst countless others scheduled to perform:  Elbow(!!!!!),  Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, The Felice Brothers, M. Ward, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson with Merle Haggard, Gomez, Robyn Hitchcock, Gillian Welch, Over the Rhine and Justin Townes Earle (with his estranged father, Steve Earle, performing separately).  It’s an embarrassment of riches, and it’s free.  Did we mention free?  Be there.