.Get Up Early And See These Bands At The Treasure Island Music Festival You Lazy Bum!

So, you went big last night, and all the biggest acts—Outkast, Massive Attack, TV on the Radio and Janelle Monae—they’re not playing until later. And through your dried, bloodshot eyes you are staring angrily at your alarm clock. There’s no way you’re getting up now to get down to the Treasure Island Music Festival for some opening acts you’ve never heard of, even if you know full well, that all you really need to do is pop some Advil, slam an iced coffee and take a shower, and that you’ll probably like some of those bands.
If you’re the type that tends to search for reasons to stay in bed on the weekend, you may not want to read any further. Because we’re about to give you six reasons to throw off the covers, suck it up and get out of your apartment well before noon on a Saturday or Sunday. Maybe both.


SATURDAY


Tobacco: Tunnel Stage (12:40pm)
The solo project of Thomas Fec, frontman of the equally strange and psychedelic indie band Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco’s songs are a churning, throbbing tangle of analog synth sounds.
Fec has spoken about his attraction to modular synthesizers and his tendency to favor material electronic instruments over software. And as a listener, you can certainly feel the tangibility of his music. It warbles and pulses, as if it were being played on a VCR unable to play tapes at a consistent speed.
His samples are heavy, awkward objects that aren’t easy to set in motion and are just as hard to slow down. Many are distorted, though the distortion doesn’t sound as if it is coming from an effects pedal; rather it sounds like it is the result of a dusty connection on a piece of analog equipment that hasn’t been plugged in for 20 years.
One doesn’t so much dance to Tobacco’s music as freak out to it.

Ratking: Bridge Stage (1:10pm)
It’s been a little more than 20 years since the Wu-Tang Clan exploded onto the scene with some of the grittiest samples and even grittier rhymes about life on New York City’s meanest streets.
The boys in Ratking were just kids back in 1992—or else they were merely twinkles in their parents’ eyes. But they were clearly influenced by the Wu, along with skateboarding, electronic music, punk and everything else you’d expect from a generation that grew up online.
Their lyrics are smart, their flows are intricate, and their beats pay tribute to the 1990s NYC hip-hop they grew up idolizing, without ever seeming overly derivative.

XXYYXX: Tunnel Stage (1:50pm)
After taking in the strange VHS whorl, and the boom-bap NYC-throwback hip-hop sounds of Ratking, it only makes sense to marry the two aesthetics, along with a hefty helping of the syzurp-tinged Dirty South. Head back to the Tunnel stage for the slow-mo beats of XXYYXX.
If you don’t smoke weed, take care you don’t catch a contact high, as it’s a sure thing that plenty of folks will be firing up as Marcel Everett, the Orlando-based musician spins up tracks which he has described as being akin to “doing drugs on a freeway… underwater.”
As XXYYXX, Everett crafts lethargic beats akin to other dark R&B artists, such as DropXLife, Clams Casino and The Weeknd. In addition to his making waves with his own releases, he has garnered attention for his slurring remixes of Tinashe, Usher and Beyonce songs.


SUNDAY


Cathedrals: Bridge Stage (12pm)
This local duo kick off the second day of the festival—bringing a Lana Del Rey-esque, indie-electronic vibe. With her deep, pouty, often breathy voice, singer Brodie Jenkins weaves gloomy tales about embracing the demons within.
The beats come courtesy of Johnny Hwin, who takes cues from Del Rey’s musical accompaniment, but mixing in his own flare, like bright indie rock guitars and Southern rap machinegun high hats.

Bleached: Tunnel Stage (12:40pm)
Bounding out of Los Angeles, this rollicking indie surf rock duo pound out bright, endearingly ramshackle pop tunes that feel like a day spent playing hooky and cruising the beach.
It’s important to catch this band early on in the day. You’ll need their SoCal sunshine vibes to carry you through the notoriously chilly nights out on Treasure Island.

White Denim: Bridge Stage (1:20pm)
This Austin, Texas, quartet to a little with a lot—blasting through four-minute compositions that pack so much information and yet manage to remain poppy. Their tangled finger-tapped guitar lines dance playfully with frenetic, bouncing bass and drums, and turn on a dime.
The band recalls the complex constructions of Dirty Projectors, Minus the Bear and The Velvet Teen, while also hinting at more bluesy, bombastic, down-home roots.

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