Outside Lands, this festival season’s winner for most eclectic lineup, released it’s schedule today and the harsh reality set-in that if you want to see your favorite band’s complete set, whether that be The Strokes, My Morning Jacket, Phoenix or Kings of Leon, you are going to make have to make the harsh decision to either run all over the place all day long to catch glimpses of bands for three songs at a time before having to hustle to the next group, or, just see four bands and wait an hour between sets.

Supporters of the schedule will note that bands really only overlap two at a time (except during Further, who enjoy a 2 1/2 hour set) and that the bigger bands enjoy relatively long sets. My Morning Jacket and Kings of Leon each get an hour and a half, The Strokes an hour and ten and Phoenix will play for an hour. But yeah, I foresee a lot of trampling, because people really don’t want to linger in front of an empty stage for an hour between sets.

Now, for the conflicts:

– Further vs Cat Power, Wild Beasts and The Strokes

– My Morning Jacket vs Tokyo Police Club

– Edward Sharpe vs Al Green

– Kings of Leon vs Empire of the Sun

– Slightly Stoopid vs Chromeo

Well, actually, the conflicts don’t really seem like conflicts at all and if you are like me, and only have a handful of must-sees on the docket for this festival, then life seems pretty easy. They just really don’t need 5 stages and are spacing the acts all excessively to overcompensate for the fact that they just didn’t book enough artists. I just hope the Wine Lands has cocktail waitresses…

Check out the complete day-by-day schedule below (click on the respective image to enlarge it). Also, feel free to let us know your comments, thoughts, gripes, etc.

Outside Lands takes place inside San Francisco, CA at Golden Gate Park on August 14th and 15th. Two-day and VIP passes are still available here.