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.

In case you missed our review, you can read our concert review of A Hawk and a Hacksaw at the Independent SF.

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.

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.

MSTRKRFT, MGMT, Beirut, Flaming Lips, The Walkmen… What a lineup! Do not miss out. Last year was soo amazing: perfect weather, great audience, great shows. Check back soon for more about the Treasure Island Music Festival and news related to the festival, only at Best Indie Rock.

So much going on right now. Any hoo… The San Francisco Treasure Island Music Festival is back for another paradastical music fest experience. No word for it, so I had to make one up. Decembrists, Flaming Lips, MGMT, MSTRKRFT and other band names relieved of pretentious vowels, Passion Pit, Girl Talk, AND MANY MORE!

What ever happened to using creative particles for the self? That’s the problem with profiting off of creativity: it used to be a struggle. But now that we can make money, we let go of the tip of thread that wound itself around our entire process and product, the yarn we once generated from the tiny pink pouch in our bellies. Precious it was, and still maybe, but for those of us who piece by piece put out for our big fat headed bosses, tickling our little petals of prolific pride from our minds, hands and mouths, the tread unravels. A lame Weezer visual this may be, but never deny their using us as instruments for petty riddles and puzzles. WE PROFIT NOT. We profit nothing.

UGC use and to be used. It started fun, and now it is fucked. Tainted and probed by the fakers. Like benjamin from Wayne’s World.

Raider of the Lost Arc

You get the picture. That didn’t happen though, maybe we were one band short. I’m sure if Broken Social Scene had shown up the whole northeast would have disappeared off the map completely. That’s how I would like to go out.

The Gorge Amphitheater

Enough of theoretical and impossible tangents, lets talk about music!!!!!! I am actually going to release a new post every few day for the next week or two, looking at each band more closely, but here is who I am gonna discuss (in the order I saw them):

• Passion Pit
• M. Ward
• DeVotchKa
• Animal Collective
• Decemberist
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Kings of Leon
• St. Vincent
• Murder City Devils
• M83

There were a ton of others I missed due to intoxication and much needed naptime like Bon Iver, Crystal Castles, Doves, of Montreal, Sun Kil Moon, Walkmen, The Wrens and The Dodos, but I am happy with my over all experience, which I will also share more about next post.

Panda and Jutley

Until then hang tight and check out a group called Agent Ribbons from Sacramento. They opened for Camera Obscura last night at the Fillmore (which I will also write about later.. ahhh so much to do)

X ) toodles!

And I want to say something really quickly… I said I was sick of folk last entry. That was dumb, obtuse, even criminal. I love folk, but folk that is made for the sake of folk, for the sake of emitting a feeling or telling a story. I love folk with a traditional tie, that transcends time. I think that is one of the best things about music, it can put us places we can’t ever physically go, more so than any visual medium. So incredibley profound I know… I am just sort of within a tangental struggle trying to understand what I don’t like about certain styles of folk. I love Bon Iver, and he is lo-fi folk… which initially I thought is what I don’t like about Sufjan Stevens (but not all Sufjan) and Great Lake Swimmers. Maybe it’s the vocals, because I don’t like Elliott Smith either. Girly whispery sad boy voice. I guess that’s it.

Well thanks for sticking through my thought process… I assure you, in real time I would have lost you at the beginning of the second paragraph. Back to Kate Maki… She is brilliant! So awesome I even bought her vinyl and I don’t even have a player. I recommend checking out her myspace and loving her as much as I do

Kate Maki!