For the past few weeks I have been writing about the upcoming Treasure Island Music Festival. Well it is just hours before the start of Day 1 and I am super psyched.
My day will start off with Passion Pit at 2:50pm. It’ll be the first time seeing these guys so I am really looking forward to that. After that, Dan Deacon, MSTRKRFT, Girl Talk, and MGMT… The weather looks great and should be a beautiful day on Treasure Island. I will be sure to grab photos. You will get my take on the festival sometime tomorrow. Unfortunately, I will be unable to go tomorrow but have enough friends going that I may ask them to fill in as a guest writer for Best Indie Rock.
Saturday, October 17th, 2009,
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As promised, the setlist from the October 9, 2009 A Hawk and a Hacksaw show at the Independent in San Francisco, California.
In case you missed our review, you can read our concert review of A Hawk and a Hacksaw at the Independent SF.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009,
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Friday night we went to a highly anticipated A Hawk and a Hacksaw live show at the Independent in San Francisco. It was about a year ago we had seen them at the same venue, so we had our expectations set.
Unfortunately, we were not that impressed with the show and do not have much to say about it. The highlight of the show was when the group all came into the audience and played a few songs. It had everyone around them engaged and happy. But besides that, the audience was rather dead and immobile. I do not know if it was because everyone was out of it or what, but for us, we were expecting to hear a decent amount of old songs. We were unfamiliar with their new album so all we could do was dance amongst each other and take it for what it was worth.
We did happen to meet A Hawk and a Hacksaw afterwords and they were all really friendly people. They even were nice enough to sign their album for me. I got the setlist too, so I will be sure to post in the next day or two.
Monday, October 12th, 2009,
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Filed under: Indie Rock Bands| concert review, hawk and a hacksaw, independent|
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The Flaming Lips are on this year’s lineup of bands playing at the Treasure Island Music Festival. I have yet to see them live so it should be pretty sweet to see them in San Francisco. They are the headliners for Sunday October 18, 2009 , then heading off to Europe to tour for the month of November (so jealous of them).
I started listening to The Flaming Lips in 2004, when I purchased their album Fight Test. “Do You Realize??” blew me away. I sure hope they do that track at the festival. I will definitely provide my feedback of each band post festival.
Sunday, September 27th, 2009,
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Only three weeks away from the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival. One of the bands I am most excited to see is Beirut. The indie band out of Santa Fe, New Mexico will be back in San Francisco after a year’s break and will be on stage Day 2, October 18, 2009.
I was fortunate enough to see Beirut last May at the Regency Ballroom on my birthday. It was a surprise from my friend. What a show… They totally rocked and since then have been one of my top 25 most-listened to artists on iTunes. If my memory serves me correctly, they were supposed to play late last year or earlier this year, but had some issues and canceled the tour. I thought they had broken up, but I am very glad to be wrong about that. Do yourself a favor and get out to Treasure Island Music Festival this October 2009 and catch Beirut on Sunday.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009,
by indiejack,
Filed under: Indie Rock Bands, Indie Rock News| beirut, treasure island music festival|
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