The Portola Music Festival is coming back to San Francisco on Sept. 20 and 21, with a lineup that includes LCD Soundsystem, Christina Aguilera, the Dare, the Chemical Brothers, Peggy Gou, Rico Nasty, Kreayshawn, Magdalena Bay, Dom Dolla, Moby and the Prodigy.

While the festival itself is a relatively new addition to San Francisco’s musical calendar, it now attracts crowds of around 45,000 people .

Among them is KQED’s own media and marketing campaigns manager Emma Yee, who has attended the Portola Music Festival every year since it launched in 2022. Yee said that for her, what sets this event apart from the staples like Outside Lands and Stern Grove is its industrial-feeling Pier 80 warehouse location near the Dogpatch District.

“It’s in between a big naval ship and a big cran

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