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31 August 2009 7:31 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Matt & Kim help close out San Fransico fest.

By Marc Hawthorne, with additional reporting by Kyle Anderson

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Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic

With the Beastie Boys out of the picture due to Adam Yauch's cancer, the title of main attraction was up for grabs on the final day of the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco.

Tenacious D, Jack Black and Kyle Gass' jokey acoustic metal duo, replaced the Beasties as the main-stage headliner on Sunday night, but it wasn't entirely clear if the majority of people who showed up in Golden Gate Park were there to see the D (even despite the chants of "We want D!" prior to their set). The band appeared to have a sense of humor about its fill-in status, selling a shirt at the festival that spoofed the Beastie Boys' Check Your Head album cover and warned, »

19 May 2009 6:35 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Jack Black abandoned his dream of becoming a successful Hollywood screenwriter after his debut movie Tenacious D: In The Pick Of Destiny flopped.

The film funnyman put pen to paper to write a big screen story about Tenacious D, his musical side project with pal Kyle Gass.

Despite the band's big cult following, the 2006 movie debuted at number 11 in the box office and struggled to make back the $20 million (£13.3 million) spent on it.

The failure knocked Black's confidence so much, he has promised to give up screenwriting for good.

He tells Maxim magazine, "It was a body blow, mainly because we had so much fun making it. I got a lot out of the writing. I was psyched to write more screenplays, but that kind of killed my writing career." »

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