California has some of the music spectaculars, to be found in this quadrant of the Milky Way, from the two weekend-filling Coachella Music and Arts Festival to the food-drink-fun Outside Lands in San Francisco.

True, the founded-in-2004 festival was once at home at The Echoplex, and then at LA State Historic Park, but in recent years have found the ever-growing two-dayer spreading out over much of Exposition Park.

Those two days in 2016 are on Saturday, Aug. 27 and Sunday, Aug. 28. The "spreading out" scene will encompass five places to see/hear top-notch, up-and-coming, household-naming artists (hello, Kendrick Lamar, Grace Jones, Air, Hot Chip, Tame Impala, Grimes, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House.

The stages include Lawn, Main, The Club, Trees, and Wood. The schedule each day continues around the early- to mid-afternoon, with the final acts grabbing their respective mics from 8:45 to 11:15 PM, depending upon the stage.

By Prakriti Neogi