Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and (the late) Richard Wright have said that Wish You Were Here, released in 1975 as the follow-up to the mega-popular The Dark Side of the Moon, is their favorite Floyd disc—and this documentary directed by filmmaker John Edginton, who also directed 2007’s The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story, does a superb job of telling how the album came to be.

There was no better place to be a guitar fan this past weekend than at the fifth annual Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. With icons such as Metallica, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, and Jack White topping the delightfully ecclectic bill (Norah Jones played right before Metallica!), Outside Lands was totally sold out in advance for the first time at 65,000 fans per day. This year’s event ran flawlessly—like a seasoned band that’s got its set totally locked and loaded.





 

Beck Still Tied to Pawnshop PrizesBeck performed at the inaugural Outside Lands Festival in 2008, but he’s kept a low profile since, so I was curious to see what my favorite Loser was up to now. As it turned...