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Mos Def. Pics by Mosi Reeves.

Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star, with J-Rocc on the turntables.
Listen to: Black Star, "Re:Definition"

Gone Phishing at Outside Lands. Pics by Stephanie Benson.

Rhapsody trekked out to the fourth annual Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco's picturesque Golden Gate Park to catch acts including Phish, OK Go, The Roots, Foster the People, Beirut, The Black Keys, John Fogerty and more. Check out photo highlights from the three-day extravaganza.

Death From Above 1979

When it comes to adventures in music, you can do a lot worse than Coachella - a kaleidoscope of bands and fans spanning all manner of genres and scenes. Rhapsody sent its rock editor, Justin Farrar, out to the desert to get his take on the whole big mess. Dig his wrap-ups in this space from the past three days.

As Stephanie Benson, my intrepid editor here at Rhapsody, pointed out while covering Coachella last year, Sunday is all about haggard faces and genuine exhaustion. Driving in for the fest's final day (and by the way, check out Moritz von Oswald Trio's Horizontal Structures album—it's the perfect desert soundtrack), I pass a Mobile station just as a rainbow-infused chillwaver oh-so-slowly crawls out of her car, grabbing ahold of the gas nozzle and letting out one of the more extreme yawns in the history of human fatigue. It encapsulates the day perfectly.

Important to keep in mind: This exhaustion doesn't require good-times boozing, necessarily—the chief instigator isn't beer and liquor, but that blazing ball of radiation in the sky. Not to riff like your mother, but don't take the sun lightly out here in the desert. It will, without mercy, destroy you. Also, sunscreen: Apply it liberally and with regularity.

Now that I'm on the grounds for the day, I'm busy knocking back not one, but two açaí smoothies. That's because I have some tremendous sounds to take in, from hardcore badasses OFF! to the mighty Lighting Bolt. Then there's a trio of dubstep DJs—Joy Orbison, Kode9 and Ramadanman—over at the Oasis stage, which I haven't been back to since Friday. After all that, it will be time to get suburban and check in with the Strokes, before concluding with who else but the one and only Kanye West.

Time to kick OFF!

Bright Eyes

Robyn