Tag Archives: Treasure Island Music Fest
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Tame Impala, Jungle and 10 more top moments Sunday at Treasure Island fest
Tame Impala performs at Treasure Island Music Festival at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland on Oct. 14, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — Everything was a haze. Tame Impala closed out 2018’s Treasure Island Music Festival in what felt like a dream state. A hypnotic swirl on the “The…
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REVIEW: Treasure Island Music Festival returns leaner to new Oakland location
A$AP Rocky performs at Treasure Island Music Festival at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland on Oct. 13, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — Perhaps JPEGMAFIA really did lose his cell phone Saturday morning. But maybe the industrial and noise hip-hop and experimental trap artist was upset that the…
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Q&A: Sofi Tukker pulls from Brazilian poetry, bossa nova to make its art
Photos: Nick DeCicco TREASURE ISLAND — During a waterlogged weekend at the final Treasure Island Music Festival, New York-based house and dance pop duo Sofi Tukker was one of the few artists who managed to avoid the rain and winds, playing hours before Mother Nature swooped in. That gave Sophie Hawley-Weld…
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Sigur Rós, Christine and the Queens among best on final day on Treasure Island Music Fest
Photos: Diana Cordero, Ian Young, Nick DeCicco TREASURE ISLAND — Attendees to the 10th and final Treasure Island Music Festival were easy to spot Sunday on the BART ride home—tired spirits bundled for warmth and many wearing rain gear, their footwear caked in mud. While rain caused a three-hour…
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Rain soaks, slows Treasure Island festival on day one
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…
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Q&A: All hail Christine and the Queens
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…
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Treasure Island Music Festival: Last year on the island
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.…
