Justin Yee

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Justin Yee is a freelance photographer currently living and working in San Francisco. His work is heavily influenced by music and fueled by the desire to capture the “perfect” moment. When he’s not attending concerts, he enjoys biking, skateboarding, digging for vinyl and exploring the Bay Area. Follow him over at Instagram: @yeesus and Twitter: @datninja

For a second year in a row, the big homie Justin Yee and I hit the ground running together at Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. You can peep the coverage of 10 Things We Loved from this year at Paste Magazine, as well as last year’s coverage at Uproxx of how Outside Lands is squarely in its prime.

For this post, we’ve got something special: A gallery of Justin’s favorite photos that he took at Outside Lands 2023 and it’s a fucking banger. Peep the beautiful images he captured in the photo pits of artists like Megan Thee Stallion, Maggie Rogers, Janelle Monáe, Tobe Nwigwe, Father John Misty, etc… the guerrilla mastery from the crowd of Kendrick Lamar and a lot more atmosphere shots from Golden Gate Park.

Follow Justin on Instagram at @yeesus, big love from the EE crew and we’ll be back at Outside Lands next year fasho!

AS & JY

San Diego’s sweet soul pioneers, Thee Sacred Souls, played to an intimate sold out crowd at Valley Bar in Phoenix, AZ on October 4th, 2022. The trio featuring vocalist Josh Lane, drummer Alex Garcia, and bassist Sal Samano blend the easygoing grace of sweet ’60s soul with the grit and groove of early ’70s R&B. Their self-titled debut album released back in August was produced by Bosco Mann (aka Daptone Records co-founder Gabriel Roth) on Penrose Records, a new Daptone imprint.

At one point during the set, Lane came down into the crowd to sing ‘It’s Our Love’ as the crowd circled around him with their phones. There was no opener for this one, but during the set, backing vocalist Jensine Benitez took the lead on two songs to sing her recently released first single “Ilusíon De Amor” and a smooth cover of East of Underground’s ‘I Love You’.

When the band came back out for an encore they said this was surprisingly their first time doing one. That made this a special one and was pretty wild that they hadn’t taken the leap in another of the sold out shows on this, their first U.S. headlining tour.

Click into the gallery below. All photos by Justin Yee (@yeesus)