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Treasure Island Music Festival

Love Hangover: TIMF Photo Phest

October 19, 2009

Dear hearts, I’m plumb spent!
I’ll have some more music for you tomorrow, but until then, here’s a selection of photos from last weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival.
(Many more pictures at my flickr page, you two-bit festival hustlers!)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Dan Deacon

Thao Nguyen

Sleepy Sun

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Treasure Island Preview:
I Hate Coming To The Entrance Just To Get Bars On My Phone

October 16, 2009

Today’s pre-festival vegetable is my second-favorite clubbing song next to “The Shy Retirer.”
I forgot to listen to A Grand Don’t Come For Free for a while, but I’m listening right now and shweet jeez it’s great.
Saturday at 4:25.
The Streets – Blinded By The Lights from A Grand Don’t Come For Free

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http://www.myspace.com/thestreets

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Treasure Island Preview:
I Wish For Dreams Of Light

October 15, 2009

I’m sure I’ve said this many times, but I dig festivals because they give me a chance to drop in and say hi to people who were important to me as a youngun. I was hell of into Hüsker Dü’s New Day Rising, so I’m glad to have the opportunity to see Bob Mould (Sunday, [...]

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Treasure Island Preview:
Holy Crap Alert!

October 14, 2009

Listen, man, I’ll admit it: I had given up on the Flaming Lips.
God bless ’em to pieces, they’d discovered and summited amazing peaks of rock over their career, but after The Soft Bulletin they seemed to hit a holding pattern. I was cool with it all — I mean, they can do what they want [...]

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Treasure Island Preview:
They Couldn’t Think Of Something To Say The Day You Burst

October 13, 2009

Today’s reason to love the Treasure Island Music Festival? That park-in-SF, take-a-bus deal works really well. I’ve heard folks both fearing and lamenting the transportation, but I’ve never had a problem the last two years. (Of course, I get there at noon and leave during the last band’s set…)
Everyone’s surprise summer sneak-up-from-behind-and-hug-you-and-sing-in-your-ear band Passion Pit [...]

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Treasure Island Preview:
Hot And Heavy, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Candy, Jesus Christ

October 12, 2009

Well, dear hearts, let’s just jump right into it. The Treasure Island Music Festival is this weekend, which means back-to-back 10-hour days of well-selected music, lots of quality lying-on-a-blanket time, and the best view of San Francisco there is.
Today’s reason for loving the TIMF:  there are two stages and nobody plays simultaneously, so you don’t [...]

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I’ve Got Two Little Arms To Hold On Tight

September 26, 2008

This one also comes under the category of festival vets showing the kids how it’s done.
Jason Pierce returned from the other side, brought his backup singers and band, faced into the sun and wind, and put music and words together in ways that made people feel things that some of us still feel.
Spiritualized – Soul [...]

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Cheesecake, Fake Name, Disco Ball

September 25, 2008

Treasure Island Appreciation Week continues with the next item of my list of hey-me-likes.
Today I’m reflecting on how nice it can be to see young bands. Not necessarily young in age (though they always are), but young in development — great energy and commitment, lots of potential, not quite all together yet.
Like take for instance [...]

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Scarves Of Red Tied ’Round Their Throats

September 24, 2008

Next up on the list of awesome things about festivals? Seeing really together bands that sound very good and like they are just about to blow up huge. That was Fleet Foxes, who, for 35 minutes on Sunday, made the small stage at Treasure Island feel like the only place in the world.
“Mykonos” was my [...]

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If This Is The Last Song That You Hear

September 23, 2008

One of the natural benefits of the festival format is getting the chance to hear music from people you’re unfamiliar with (whom you’re unfamiliar). The Treasure Island folks did a great job this year of putting top-notch local acts into the early slots.
I had heard praise for Or, The Whale over at ipickmynose, so I [...]

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