The 3-day Outside Lands Festival celebrating music, food, wine, beer, art, cannabis is a busy time for the musicians. Not only do they need to get to their gigs on time and be ready to roll, they also want to greet the loads of fans, take in the San Francisco scene, and do a TON of interviews.

Fortunately we were there to catch several of them behind the scenes sharing their thoughts and hopes for this event, as well their careers, in this brief photo essay.