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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.

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Amy Winehouse Still Not Approved for Travel to the U.S.

March 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM | by egw | 2 Comments

Last week we wrote about a man who was unsuccessfully trying to get into the U.K.; now we've found the person whose place he could take, if immigration worked like that. Having only recently returned home from Jamaica, Amy Winehouse is trying desperately to get out again -- but as with the '08 Grammys, she won't be getting into America so easily.

Winehouse's problem is not the rumors of drug use nor her connection to potentially-soon-to-be-ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who was recently released from prison. Rather, the retro-fantastic singer was charged with assault after allegedly hitting a fan who snapped a picture of her, and will have to appear in court next week. No visa means no performance at California's trumpeted Coachella festival next month, where sun-drenched music lovers will have to content themselves with other acts like Morrissey and the Killers.

Having seen Winehouse in a festival setting similar to Coachella's in 2007, it's perhaps not the best venue to see her in -- but since she doesn't seem to be doing any cabaret tours, we'd say she is worth the ticket price in all her wackiness. Worth traveling for? Well, that's another story.

Related Stories:
· Amy Winehouse Drops Out Of Coachella Festival [NY Times ArtsBeat]
· In Britain, A Struggle To Prove You're "Just Visiting" [Jaunted]
· Amy Winehouse denied entry to America... again [Celebitchy]

[Photo: Telegraph.co.uk]

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Adventures of Link: Glastonbury Festival 2007 Post-Mortem

June 26, 2007 at 5:13 PM | by markj | 0 Comments

Glastonbury Festival 2007 took place June 22, 23, and 24. The Killers, The Police, Lily Allen, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, and Modest Mouse were among the many bands that took the stage.

Glastonbury Festival was started by dairy farmer Michael Eavis in 1970 and is now Europe's largest music festival. The event takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton near Glastonbury in the UK.

·   Thread on Arcade Fire's Performance [deafindieelephants]
·   NME.com weighs in [NME.com]
·   Festival Blogs [Official Site]
·   Muddy Glastonbury Goers Help A Cab [ABCnews]
·   More Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem [Official Site]

[Photo: (Standalone)]