Photos: Diana Cordero, Nick DeCicco and Ian Young TREASURE ISLAND — Mother Nature was the unintended guest performer Saturday on the first day of the Treasure Island Music Festival Saturday. A downpour drenched festivalgoers, causing a three-hour delay between sets. After hundreds if not thousands left in droves, promoters reversed policy…

Christine and the Queens. Courtesy. It’s been a busy couple of years for Heloise Letissier, a French singer-songwriter-dancer who began the span by setting aside her dreams of Broadway stage production in favor of a career as Francophile synth-pop musician who has successfully crossed over to an Anglophile pop…

Ten years ago, a couple small, local music production companies decided the Bay Area needed more live music. They envisioned a festival that didn’t force ticket holders to decide which acts to skip. They decided that if a festival was planned well enough, it should be possible to see every performance.…

  For the first time in 10 years, October’s Treasure Island Music Festival is extending its shuttle service to include East Bay music lovers. The festival itself is moving to the east side of the island, which makes it easier to run shuttles across the eastern span of the Bay…

Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós and California rapper Ice Cube were named June 14 as the headliners for the Treasure Island Music Festival. The festival, now in its 10th year, takes place Oct. 15 and 16 on the island. According to a press release, the 2016 installment will mark the final year on…

Treasure Island Music Festival jellyfish. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Every act had its own way of dealing with the biting wind and the dropping temperatures Sunday at the Treasure Island Music Festival’s indie rock day. Some bundled up, while Japandroids vocalist-guitarist Brian King stripped down to his shirt to connect with…

The Presets, courtesy. Four years have lapsed since Australian electronic dance duo The Presets last released a record. In the time since 2008’s Apocalypso went three-times platinum in their native land, both drummer-keyboardist Kim Moyes and singer-keyboardist Julian Hamilton became fathers. Understandably, the two now have less time to…

Allyson Baker of Dirty Ghosts, courtesy: Molly DeCoudreaux. Allyson Baker may have black hair, play guitar and wear leather jackets and black clothes, but she doesn’t own any Joan Jett albums. Instead, she looks for inspiration to albums like Captain Beefheart’s Mirror Man, Chrome’s Red Exposureand Duran Duran’s self-titled…

Public Enemy, courtesy: David Wong. When Public Enemy burst onto the music scene in 1987, helping to popularize rap (along with the Beastie Boys and Run DMC), socio-politically conscious co-founder and MC Chuck D polarized the country with lyrics that criticized the justice system and the media. White Middle…