 With one of the more solid lineups of any festival this year, Download Festival (San Francisco Edition) was a day full of indie rock's coolest bands, e.g. TV on the Radio, Muse, and Beck. The main stage even had the looney Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Cali-favorites The Shins and Rogue Wave. They all pulled off a solid show, which included Beck's puppets, Muse's lightning in a bottle, and Karen O's psychotic look. Each band played for roughly an hour, and Beck finished everyone off with a multi-media extravaganza.
By Chris Fore
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Beck - Nausea
Muse - Starlight Muse - Knights of Cydonia Rogue Wave - California
Rogue Wave - New Song
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This year’s winner of Canada’s prestigious Polaris Music Prize, Patrick Watson’s Close To Paradise is an orchestral thing of beauty. 
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