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Treasure Island Music Festival Offers Indie Rock Oasis In San Fran

Where: Treasure Island [map], San Francisco, CA, United States
October 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM | by Heidi Atwal | 0 Comments

For Pitchfork-reading, Ray Ban-sporting music fans, the Treasure Island Music Festival delivers nothing less than a heaven sent lineup. Acts getting heavy airtime on hipper-than-thou radio stations, including MGMT, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, and club kid heroes MSTRKRFT, will all be on-hand from October 17-18 in San Francisco to get the youthful masses shaking in their skinny jeans and buffalo plaid shirts. Make no mistake, this festival is cool incarnate.

The artificial island lies in between San Francisco and Oakland and is accessible by the Bay Bridge if you're driving, or a MUNI line from within SF. Now in its third year, the two-day event is skewed more toward electro/dance on Day One and what you might broadly call "indie rock" on Day Two. We're excited to see psychedelic performers The Flaming Lips headlining Sunday's affair; we predict trippy lights, costumes, and frontman Wayne Coyne climbing over the audience in a plastic bubble, as he's known to do during their set.

The Early Bird Two-Day pass is long gone, but you still have the option of purchasing a Single Day Ticket for $65, Advanced Two-Day Ticket for $115, or VIP Single Day 2-Pack for $249. The VIP package gets you and a friend into the festival for one day and secures you a parking spot on the island, preferred viewing, lounge access, and a free subscription to SPIN magazine.

If you're not rolling VIP, know in advance that you won't be able to park on the island itself. To handle a potentially sticky situation, the organizers have included complimentary parking at AT&T Park with transportation to-and-from Treasure Island with the purchase of Single and Two-Day tickets. Do-gooders concerned with smog emissions and all that back-and-forth bus service can add $1-2 to "green" their ticket, with the proceeds going toward energy and reforestation programs. That's reason enough to dance for us.

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· Treasure Island Music Festival [Official Site]
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