Malcolm Todd Proved He’s Bigger Than TikTok at Outside Lands

Malcolm Todd’s softly strummed music is best known from TikToks by young people talking about who or what they love the most, but this charismatic performance at Outside Lands Saturday afternoon showed another side of the 22-year-old singer-songwriter. Todd stood on stage with his guitar painted with red, green and yellow stripes and sang songs about love and lust.

As the show progressed, Todd showed his sense of humor and personality. He did the Macarena during a song, shaking his butt to the crowd, and constantly gushed about how much he loves San Francisco. “This is a really great city,” he told the sea of people. “Beautiful place, beautiful weather.”

Throughout his hour-long set, “Bleed,” his collaboration with Omar Apollo, was a crowd favorite. He also brought out his older sister, Audrey Hobert, who performed earlier in the day on the main stage, to sing “Phoebe” off her 2025 album Who’s the Clown? The two shared hugs and praise for each other — a heartwarming moment in the chilly weather.

PinkPantheress closed out Outside Lands with a confident set. Once a shy teen making music in her bedroom, she fully broke out of her shell on the smaller Sutro stage while the Strokes headlined the main stage nearby. 

Pink came out wearing her signature hairstyle of honey-colored bangs, a blue pencil skirt and red ballet flats. (In memes, fans have jokingly compared her look to that of a JCPenney manager — which Pink herself does not dispute.) She opened the set with her hit “Stateside,” accompanied by DJ Joe and a live drummer. She performed songs from her recent projects, Fancy That and Heaven Knows, as well as earlier deep cuts that were once only available on SoundCloud. 

PinkPantheress’ sweet ode to a crush, “Just For Me,” and breakup anthem, “Pain,” first made people tune into her music five years ago, and at Outside Lands, these tracks felt as fresh as when they first came out.

“San Francisco, it’s you and me,” PinkPantheress told the crowd in her British accent, with tone much lower than her soft singing voice. 

During her house-inflected hit “Stars,” she did some head banging while the drums took the audience to a place just as foggy as San Francisco.

“It’s pretty cold,” she said. “It’s like the U.K.” 

Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada captivated the crowd with lyrics about nature, love and loss before turning the Panhandle stage into one big party. 

From the beginning, her soulful vocals commanded attention from the audience, whether they spoke Spanish or not. She used her voice in a way that resembled a yodel, each note full of emotion, at times as if she was close to tears. Jazz improvisation made her style of folk music all the more dynamic. 

Estrada expressed her heartfelt gratitude and love for the Latin American diaspora, and got a lot of cheers when she exclaimed, “Fuck ICE!”

Estrada closed her set with a cumbia song, shouting out the genre’s roots in Colombia. The entire crowd began to move their bodies while Estrada sang and danced, grabbing her skirt.