All photos by Brittany Nelson & Christine Campbell
I sure hope that any dance-hating Bay Area citizens were far away from Treasure Island last Saturday, because the first day of the festival was a 12-hour ass-shaking, arm-waving, beat-dropping, jump-up-and-down, pump-your-fist-in-the-air-like-you-mean-it kind of day.

We told you about the rumors a few months ago, and now we’ve got a confirmed lineup for the 2009 Treasure Island Festival (with most of the rumors turning out to be true).
The two-day festival will be headlined by MGMT and the Flaming Lips. As with the past two years, the folks at Another Planet [...]

Well, it’s two weeks after the fact and I’m finally able to wrap my head around the musical smorgasbord that was Bonnaroo 2009. 75,000 people descended on Manchester, TN, (population: roughly 9,500 for 361 days of the year), for the festival’s eighth year.
The musical equivalent of Willy Wonka’s world of pure imagination, Bonnaroo once again [...]

The dates come first, then we usually wait for a good long while before the official lineup announcement breaks the interwebs. However, in an unexpected turn of events (or perhaps expected – the internet is a wacky creature), there are now rumblings about the initial lineup for the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival. As Consequence [...]

Rock and roll? Check. Beautiful festival setting? Check. Theoretically, not much is missing from this combination – in fact, festivals like Monolith, Sasquatch! and our very own Treasure Island and Outside Lands demonstrate that you need not much more than some ace bands and lovely views to make for a good time (well, beer helps [...]

After what seemed like a series of odd delays and false starts, the lineup finally got released today for this year’s Coachella Music Festival. It’s a good one. Really good. Headlining each day are Paul McCartney on Friday, The Killers on Saturday and The Cure on Sunday (before you scoff at Friday’s closer, Uncle Corey’s [...]

It’s that time of year again — the turkey leftovers are long gone and we’re hearing Christmas music in every store in town, so it must be time for best-albums-of-year lists.
After screaming matches, insults and a fist fight or two, the dust has settled and the Stranger Dance staff stands before you united with our [...]

[This weekly feature is a snapshot of what the Stranger Dance staff can't get out of our collective head each week. On any given week, we might be digging a new local act, an old jazz chestnut, the newest Japanese electro-folk or whatever else we've got on the turntable/iPod that week.]
We’re apparently in a “now” [...]

The lineup for Lollapolooza has been confirmed, and it looks like Perry Ferrel & Co. have thrown down the gauntlet, basically taking the Outside Lands Festival lineup, trimming some of the MoR-friendly fat, and mixing in more talent.
Word that Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, The Raconteurs, Wilco and Kanye West would headline [...]