Treasure Island: A Grocery Store, A Casino, A Robert Louis Stevenson Novel, And Now A Music Festival Too!

By Annapocalypse on

Maybe it’s because I don’t live in San Francisco, but I had never heard of the Treasure Island Music Festival until a few days ago, when the lineup for the 2nd annual edition was announced.

I had, however, heard of the following Treasure Islands:

- The casino/hotel in Las Vegas
- The famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about pirates
- The grocery store in Chicago (now with seven locations!)
- The furniture store chain in New York and New Jersey, which apparently filed for bankruptcy two-and-a-half years ago

But, none of those are as important as the music festival, so let’s get down to the details, shall we?

The Treasure Island Music Festival takes place September 20-21 on an island in the middle of the San Francisco bay. Pretty sweet, I know. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 30 at 10 AM via the festival’s website. It costs $65 for single day tickets and $115 for two-day passes. In addition to a sweet lineup, the two-day celebration will also feature interactive activities for the audience, including a Ferris wheel, a vending village featuring local artists and designers, and a wide array of food and beverages.

And no story about a festival would be complete without a lineup, so here it is:

- Saturday, September 20:

Justice / TV On The Radio / Goldfrapp / Hot Chip / CSS / Antibalas / Aesop Rock / Amon Tobin / Foals / Mike Relm / Nortec: Bostich + Fussible

- Sunday, September 21:

The Raconteurs / Tegan & Sara / Vampire Weekend / Spiritualized / Okkervil River / Tokyo Police Club / The Kills / Dr. Dog / John Vanderslice / The Dodos / Fleet Foxes

Spoon To Tour, But More Importantly: If They Cover The Knife, Will It Be On the Forkcast?

By Papaya on 05-22-2008

Spoon, defined by Wikipedia as “Indie Rock,” will soon be touring in support of their new EP, Don’t You Evah. They have decided to tour almost exclusively in cities that already have an abundance of good shows on any given night, which is really cool. The lone exception is some place called “Troutdale,” a cozy little Oregon town which has its own blog.

The band released Don’t You Evah last month on Merge. It's 87.5% “Don’t You Evah” or a variant thereof, and features some oddly hot cover art. You can pick up a copy at any of the following dates, your local record store, or, if you really hate the band and want personal responsibility for their starvation, you can download it.

Dates dates dates dates dates:

* Beck and MGMT

Cat Power Extends Tour; Small Carnivorous Species of Crepuscular Mammals Rejoice!

By meikaidi on 05-22-2008

$ Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Spiritualized

Cat Power Extends Tour; Small Carnivorous Species of Crepuscular Mammals Rejoice!

By Mr P on 05-22-2008

$ Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Spiritualized

Attention Torrent Sites I’m On: Comcast Is Throttling All BitTorrent Traffic All the Time; Still Sorry About My Ratio, Though

By Joe B. on 05-22-2008

A couple of weeks ago, TorrentFreak reported on a new plugin that compared the rate of a person’s torrent traffic to the rest of their online traffic. The developers of the plugin have released some cool, eye-catching charts and graphs using the data they collected.

The upswing of all that boring crap is that Comcast, the largest cable television company and second largest ISP, lied to the FCC a couple months back, claiming they only throttle “excessive” traffic “during periods of peak network congestion.” About a month later, Comcast claimed they would “slow traffic for those users who consume the most bandwidth” and not “slow traffic by certain types of applications.” As you might have guessed, the aforementioned boring charts prove otherwise, pretty much unequivocally

At least the jig is definitely up for Comcast, now that a handful of bloggers and other assorted nerds are through the looking glass. The keyboard is mightier than the almighty dollar! En garde, corporate America.

Ticketmaster Invents Paperless Ticket™ Technology in Time for Tom Waits Tour; A Lot Less Exciting Than It Sounds, Trust Me

By Scout Leader Kyle on 05-21-2008

Over the next year and a half, Ticketmaster will be rolling out their new, ridiculously named Paperless Ticket™ technology at major venues across North America. The service will be available online and by phone and will have a two-per-customer limit. Paperless Ticket™ holders can skip the will-call line straight to the doorstaff, where their credit card will be scanned to determine their purchase.

Other benefits? Aside from convenience and being eco-friendlier, the new service will make it virtually impossible to scalp tickets (unless, of course, you're a division of Ticketmaster, who apparently sanction certain forms of scalping). And for those of you paper fetishists who save your stubs, you can still do it old skool for now, but intangible tickets will likely be the norm in the near future, so you might as well start saving your confirmation e-mails from now on.

The Paperless Ticket™ seems like a great idea, and since Ticketmaster is responsible for more than half of all ticket sales in the United States, it's bound to affect you eventually. Interestingly, the paperless technology will debut in conjunction with the upcoming Tom Waits tour, so it may affect you sooner than you'd think.

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