When we posted the Outside Lands festival lineup, we mentioned how the San Fransisco festival tried to fit it “between a jam and a rock space,” especially with Further (featuring the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Phil Lesh) and the Strokes headlining on Saturday. According to our photographer Graeme Flegenheimer there was a hippie/hipster divide on day one, with most of the former camping by the Further stage to get a good spot for the night. People who stuck to the Strokes stage got a six-song encore — maybe not a Grateful Dead-length show, but 17 songs total. The next day dedicated fans did the same for Kings Of Leon. Fortunately the weather/vibe was, according to Graeme, “sunny and fun.” He finished up Sunday by catching the Outside Lands afterparty at The Mezzanine, where Jimmy Cliff headlined.

The beautifully lit Crackerfarm-directed video for “Rebel Side Of Heaven” takes place at the Box in Manhattan. It looks really good (lots of rich shadows and tones), which makes sense: Crackerfarm, aka the husband/wife team of Mike and Lindsey, are also photographers, who’ve shot Sonic Youth, the Avett Brothers, Sparklehorse, Regina Spektor, Langhorne himself, etc. (The image to the right’s a screengrab from the video, not a promo photo.) Content-wise, it’s a simple, raucous performance by PA-born, Brooklyn-based Langhorne Slim and his War Eagles interspersed with spotlit mugging by the band, various bar and bathroom tableau (folks making out, a guy reading the newspaper on the can, a peeping tom, a dude blowing his horn). It’s our second video of the day that features a woman wearing a tie. If we have one more, we declare a trend.

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