Recap: 4 New Bands At Treasure Island Festival

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San Francisco – This year’s Treasure Island Music Festival boasted one of the most interesting lineups of the year, promising sets from a lot of seasoned veterans across a multitude of genres, including OutKast, Massive Attack, TV on the Radio, and The New Pornographers, just to name a few.  The festival’s two stages—named the Bridge

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5 New Bands At Treasure Island Music Festival

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San Francisco – Treasure Island Music Festival has been a staple of the bay area ever since its inaugural event, held in 2007.  Since then the festival has seen headliners such as Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse, and LCD Soundsystem.  This year they’ve tapped Outkast and Massive Attack as headliners, and while they both

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5 New Bands To See At ACL Fest

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Austin – One of the biggest names in music festivals is getting bigger this year, growing to a second weekend to accommodate a larger lineup, and, maybe more importantly, a larger crowd.  Austin City Limits presents a mix of pop music’s biggest new names and some welcome reunions (Outkast and The Replacements? My mind has

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MØ Danced All Over Lincoln Hall

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Chicago – Karen Marie Ørsted had THE hottest ticket around Chicago this past week. Okay, maybe Blackhawks playoff tickets actually took the title, but Karen Marie Ørsted for sure came in a close second. Karen, better known as MØ, quickly sold out Schubas, so the gig was moved to its larger sister venue: Lincoln Hall. The

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