“I’m such a f—king tease,” Mannequin Pussy frontwoman Marisa Dabice sang to the Outside Lands crowd, before launching into the broiling chorus of “Loud Bark,” from their most recent album. “I got a loud bark, deep bite,” she screamed, and the Friday afternoon crowd lapped it up.
The Philadelphia punk four-piece have been touring and making music for over a decade, but it was their brilliant and messy 2024 album, “I Got Heaven,” that made the critics’ end-of-year lists and cemented Mannequin Pussy as one of the coolest bands around.
As the marine layer lowered over San Francisco’s Land’s End stage, Dabice strutted like a panther down the extended stage, built for tonight’s headliner. “Shout out to Doja Cat for this beautiful catwalk,” she said, before asking all the conservative men in the audience to scream the word “pussy” and hope for catharsis.
Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy performs on the Lands End stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.
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The band’s sound veers from dream pop to hardcore punk, sometimes within the same song. The highlight of the raucous set was the title track from “I Got Heaven,” in which Dabice tears into the hypocrisy of Christianity over Colins Regisford’s throbbing bass line and Maxine Steen’s spiraling fuzz guitar. “And what if Jesus himself ate my f—king snatch?” Golden Gate Park was asked, likely for the first time.
Like last year’s standout performance from Australian pub rockers Amyl & the Sniffers, it took another female-led punk act to wake up the festival this year. The fired-up crowd was bigger than your average 3 p.m. set, almost stretching back to the festival’s Instagrammable windmill.
Colins Regisford of Mannequin Pussy plays on the Lands End stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.
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Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy performs on the Lands End stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.
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The band pulled from all four albums, with bassist Regisford taking lead vocals on the blistering “Pigs Is Pigs,” while carefully avoiding the unfortunate Amazon Prime Video camera operator walking the stage between band members.
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“I know this is on Amazon, but f—k every billionaire who has collectively made our lives s—ttier and s—ttier,” Dabice told the crowd, to cheers. “F—k them all.” At one point a drone camera buzzed toward the frontwoman, who flashed the tiny airborne tyrant.
The biggest roar from the crowd erupted at the end of an impassioned monologue from Dabice that started with a whisper and ended with a tirade. “There’s a genocide happening in our name, for what? Children are dying, for what? So Donald Trump can build another f—king golf course?” She asked. “Free Palestine.”
Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy performs on the Lands End stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.
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Outside of politics, the band’s set provided a welcome burst of guts and noise, as one of only a small handful of punk acts included in this weekend’s sleepy lineup.
The band finished on “Romantic,” the title track from their second album. The crowd dispersed into the fog all riled up, seemingly in agreement that the festival should embrace the noise, and book a few more acts like this.
