Another week, another music festival lineup revealed. This time it San Francisco's relatively small Treasure Island Fest, offering big name acts for indie rock, hip hop and dance music fans. This year's lineup includes The Xx, M83, Girl Talk, Public Enemy, Gossip and many more. Among the highlights are the new indie supergroup Divine Fits (featuring key members of Spoon, Handsome Furs/Wolf Parade and New Bomb Turks), the dreamy Youth Lagoon, Aussie electronic duo The Presets, California tour guides Best Coast, genre-bender Grimes, Sf's legendary Imperial Teen and garage god Ty Segall. Britain's The Xx, presumably headlining Night Two, are returning...
- 6/26/2012
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
On 2007’s The Hair The TV The Baby And The Band, intermittent indie-rock concern Imperial Teen attempted to square its rock ’n’ roll lifestyle with the reality of middle age. “And now we have to book the rental cars / We no longer smash guitars,” sang Roddy Bottum (of Faith No More fame) on the resigned “Room With A View.” The new Feel The Sound—Imperial Teen’s first album in five years—is similarly adult-minded, but remarkably more assured and hopeful. It’s the sound of a band comfortable in its own skin, but still not afraid to embrace ...
- 1/31/2012
- avclub.com
In 1993, San Francisco music obsessive Kevin Arnold scheduled a concert at the now defunct Kennel Club on Divisadero Street. The show, which he dubbed "Noise Pop," featured four bands and was headlined by a group called Bitchcraft.
While Bitchcraft is (probably) no more, that unassuming little concert has since blossomed into a massive, multi-venue sonic celebration that completely takes over the San Francisco music scene for one glorious week every spring.
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This year, the festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary and, in a nod to its history, is offering an impressive lineup packed with old-school indie rock royalty. The biggest names playing this year's festival are three bands ready to rock you like its 1998--don't worry, that's meant in the best way possible--Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen.
Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen have both played the festival before, in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
While Bitchcraft is (probably) no more, that unassuming little concert has since blossomed into a massive, multi-venue sonic celebration that completely takes over the San Francisco music scene for one glorious week every spring.
(Scroll Down For Photos)
This year, the festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary and, in a nod to its history, is offering an impressive lineup packed with old-school indie rock royalty. The biggest names playing this year's festival are three bands ready to rock you like its 1998--don't worry, that's meant in the best way possible--Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen.
Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen have both played the festival before, in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
- 12/7/2011
- by Aaron Sankin
- Huffington Post
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