Treasure Island Music Festival an Enormous Success
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Chris Crowley | Staff Writer
The third installment of the annual Treasure Island Music Festival just across the Bay bridge continued its’ tradition this weekend of being a landmark festival destination for concertgoers, who were graced by big name indie, hip-hop and electronic acts including The Flaming Lips, MGMT, and MSTRKRFT.
Treasure Island, a smaller scaled down [...]
Tags: concert, festival, Music, Treasure Island Music Festival
The Frosted Tips May Be Gone, but Sugar Ray Makes a Comeback with “Music for Cougars”
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Heather Spellacy | Staff Writer
If you were a teenager in the nineties you probably had a crush on hottie-extraordinaire and Sugar Ray front man, Mark McGrath. His Rolling Stone cover was most definitely looming somewhere on your poster-covered walls, and your Sugar Ray CD was undoubtedly scratched due to how often “Every Morning” was played [...]
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Erykah Badu, Mos Def & Jay Electronica Perform Live in Concert Sept. 3rd
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Miles Nishioka | Staff Writer
The Ecstatic Tour flows through San Francisco on the night of Thursday, Sept. 3 at Davies Symphony Hall. The show includes highly regarded New York MC Mos Def, R&B superstar Erykah Badu, and the up-and-coming MC Jay Electronica.
Mos Def is a Grammy winning artist and activist from Brooklyn. He is known [...]
Tags: concert, Erykah Badu, Jay Electronica, Most Def
The Future Comes to Slim’s
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Heather Spellacy | Staff Writer
Transmission:
Looking for good music and a $13 trip to the future? Well you can stop searching. Slim’s, a local venue found at 333 11th street, is embracing our favorite space-trekking posse. The Phenomenauts, a pyschobilly band out of Oakland, will be gearing up in their futuristic duds this coming Saturday (1/24/09) [...]
Tags: concert, Preview, Slim's, The Phenomenauts
There’s Something Cold About the Way You Play
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Sky Madden | Staff Writer
The first time I ever heard Coldplay was a couple weeks before high school started. I had snuck in through the basement of the house where my then-girlfriend was babysitting. We were watching MTV2 in the master bedroom. Awkwardly snuggled up on a mountain of duvet covers we [...]
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Treasure Island: Day by Day
Posted by pacotacomike | Filed under Music
Staff Writer:Kylah Frazier
The past two days have been an insane musical overload, I’m more tired than I’ve ever been and I’m pretty sure I’ll be partially def for the rest of my life but it was all well worth it. I came back from the Treasure Island Music Festival with a long list of new [...]
Tags: blog, concert, Kylah Frazier, San Francisco Foghorn, Scene, Treasure Island
