This past weekend, over 100,000 fans descended upon San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the second annual Outside Lands festival.  There were highlights, lowlights and some moments in between. Here are some of the best and worst moments of the weekend:

GOOD:  The food. I have to give credit where credit is due.  The food was outstanding.  Usually I'm not one for festival food, (overpriced and undercooked), but they nailed it here.  The food was reasonably priced (for a festival), was all from local vendors, and was nothing short of extraordinary.

GOOD: Q-Tip. Wow. Q-Tip's set started off with a moment of silence for his good friend, DJ AM, who died earlier in the day, much to the surprise of many festival-goers.  But after this, the set was awesome.  I had the fortune of seeing Q-Tip perform at the Wireless Fest in London in front of more people, but the Outside Lands performance blew that one out of the water.  To make things even better, Phife joined Q-Tip on stage for an impromptu A Tribe Called Quest reunion.  Can't get much better than that.

BAD: Publicists. These people are the gatekeepers to the bands.  In some cases, a journalist may need to hustle to get to the band, like at this festival.  A certain unnamed band on the rise will get nowhere unless their ditch their PR person.  This takes away from our ability to cover the festival with as much insight as we can. There was one press conference (with a group I never heard of).  The access to the bands was terrible. It would have been better if the festival had allowed the media more access instead of having to rely upon individual publicists.

BAD: Tenacious D. Not so much the group, but the questionable decision to replace the Beastie Boys (who had to cancel due to MCA's battle with cancer) as Sunday's headliner with the comedy duo.  A number of people, including MIA, were upset about this decision (MIA vented on her Twitter page) and took away from what would have been an epic end to the festival.  Truth be told, anyone would have been a better headliner.

GOOD: Pearl Jam, The old guys can still rock, that's for sure.  In over two hours, the band mixed in the old (Even Flow, Alive) with the new (Got Some, The Fixer) and offered a few covers (The Real Me, Rockin' in the Free World).  But the underlying story of Pearl Jam's performance was Eddie Vedder's bout with a throat ailment, which he acknowledged at the beginning of the set.  Unlike the last time the band played at Golden Gate Park (the infamous 1995 gig where Vedder succumbed to food poisoning, leaving the band and Neil Young to finish the set), Vedder fought through and delivered.  The band played to a gigantic crowd and was as comfortable as I've ever seen them on stage.

BAD: Jason Mraz. Talk about overrated! This guy stinks. He's a third rate Dave Matthews who can't quite pull it together.  The dude has some talent, but he doesn't appeal to me and his live performance didn't help matters.  Although I was dragged to see him play, I figured he'd at least be decent, not blah.  But that's exactly what he is: blah.

GOOD: Golden Gate Park. Aside from New York's Central Park, I don't think there is a prettier park in the country.  Located on the northwest side of the city, Golden Gate Park is one of the best places to see a show.  The weather was perfect and the layout of the concert's multiple stages made it easy to hop from stage to stage.  Kudos to the organizers for picking the best place to see a concert in California (sorry dirty hipsters, Coachella sucks).

UGLY: Black Eyed Peas: I don't think I know a single person that likes these hacks, so how are they so big? I really enjoyed the group's first few albums, but since they added Fergie, they've gone downhill.  The band lip-synched and danced through a bunch of lackluster songs, concluding with the idiotic song where they shout Hebrew phrases like Mazel Tov.  I am dumber from seeung that show; however, I still give will.i.am and the Peas' tour manager props for beating up Perez Hilton.  That moment was better than anything the group could conjure up on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.