Though its been moved from its original namesake location, the Treasure Island Music Festival is still going strong. This year’s fest boasts a hip-hop and dance-heavy lineup. Performers include A$AP Rocky, Pusha T and Aminé—all hot off studio releases this year. Also on the bill are a pair of interesting team-ups: Diplo and Mark Ronson (performing as Silk City) and Toro y Moi getting together with Nosaj Thing under the banner of Laff Trax. All this plus avant-garde vocalists Serpentwithfeet and Moses Sumney. Filling in the headliner spot next to A$AP is Kevin Parker’s psychedelic rock outfit Tame Impala.

Treasure Island Music Festival
Sat-Sun, noon, $105+
Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, Oakland

It’s the end of an era. This year’s 10th annual Treasure Island Music Festival marks the final lineup on the man made island in the middle of the bay. A massive housing development and infrastructure project in the works for decades is breaking ground soon at the festival’s normal location—the Great Lawn along the Avenue of the Palms—which means this year’s grand finale will be moved to the east side of the island, to Pier 1.

Event organizers are spinning the news as best they can, noting that while San Francisco’s iconic skyline will no longer serve as the festival’s backdrop, music fans will still get quite a view of the recently completed eastern span of the Bay Bridge. This also means those travelling to the two-day concert will have a new shuttle option, which will pick up patrons from the West Oakland BART station on 5th Street, between Chester Street and Mandela Parkway.

There’s no word on exactly where the festivities will be held in 2017, but leave that to folks at parent promotion collective Noise Pop. For now, all you need to do is worry about who is playing at TIMF—and, if you’re coming up from the South Bay—how early you’ll need to arrive and how to get to the island.

GETTING THERE

Getting to San Francisco from Silicon Valley is rough, as it is. Slogging it all the way to Treasure Island can be a nightmare. Fortunately, there are a number of transportation options available to you.

Driving isn’t an option—at least not directly to the event. There is no parking on the island during the festival. However, Uber, Lyft and taxis are an option. Of course, hitching a hired ride all the way from the 408 will cost an arm and a leg. That’s why you might consider taking Caltrain or BART.

With Caltrain, you can leave directly from any location as far south at Gilroy. Bonus: you can also drink on the train. From there, you’ll want to ride to the end of the line at Fourth and King streets in the city. It’s still a bit of a hike from there—but, in addition to taxis and other ridesharing services, you can also catch a bus (No. 25), which is the cheapest option, but also eats up valuable time. Estimated drive time is 8 minutes from the SF Caltrain station. Hopping on the bus will take you at least 25 minutes.

Living at the base of the bay has its benefits. In this case, that benefit is that you can also run up 880 to San Francisco. By either driving straight to the West Oakland BART Station, or grabbing a BART train from Fremont, you can save yourself the hassle of dealing with the labyrinthine streets of San Francisco. Unfortunately, getting back on BART can be tricky and full of transfers. Plus, no booze allowed, and no bathrooms on the train.

MUST-SEE ACTS

Headlining acts for Saturday and Sunday are not to be missed. West Coast rap icon Ice Cube takes the first night while Icelandic post-rock titans Sigur Ros are slated for night two.

The first day of the festival seems geared more toward fans of electronic and hip-hop. Some of Saturday’s biggest names include the electro-soul crooner Tom Krell—a.k.a. How To Dress Well. His set is sure to draw a Pitchfork-reading crowd. Later in the afternoon, Young Thug is scheduled to get people amped for the gangster rap royalty headlining Saturday night. With his slurring delivery and outlandish persona, he embodies everything critics love and hate about the Southern trap sound.

Sunday’s roster of acts caters more to an indie rock crowd—even when it dips into electronic territory. Fans of tortured, young singer-songwriters, such as Conor Oberst’s early Bright Eyes releases, will want to check out Car Seat Headrest. Currently based out of Seattle, the project is the brainchild of Will Toledo, who garnered big buzz recording lo-fi, indie rock paeans to youthful disenfranchisement in his Leesburg, Va., bedroom. Those who love loud guitars will be remiss if they don’t check out the San Francisco-born, melodic black metal outfit Deafheaven; while those who prefer a more lackadaisical, indie-slacker sound, will enjoy smoking cigarettes and not caring about Mac DeMarco.

Treasure Island Music Festival
Oct 15-16
Treasure Island

Treasure Island Music Festival organizers announced today that Big Grams, a collaboration between Atlanta rapper Big Boi of Outkast and Phantogram, will make their live debut on the island this year.

Perhaps the most interesting hip-hop collaboration since El-P and Killer Mike teamed up for Run The Jewels (also performing at the Festival), Big Grams was conceived while Big Boi and Phantogram collaborated on several tracks for the rapper’s 2012 release Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors.

Several tracks have already leaked ahead of Big Grams’ self-titled album release on Sept. 25, including the debut of “Fell in the Sun” on Friday. Listen Below:

Big Grams will replace Azealia Banks on the lineup, who recently canceled her North American tour. Big Boi performed at the festival as a headliner with Outkast last year.

The festival, Oct. 17-18 on Treasure Island, will also host Deadmau5, FKA Twigs, the War on Drugs, the National, Father John Misty and more. View the complete lineup with audio samples HERE.

The Treasure Island Music Festival has announced its lineup of artists for each day of the two-day festival, scheduled to be held Oct. 17-18. EDM heavyweight Deadmau5 will headline Saturday and The National are slated to top Sunday’s bill. Tickets for the festival go on sale Sept. 17, at 10 am.

In addition to the festival’s headliners, many other big names will be playing over the course of the weekend. Here are some of the performers you’ll want to make sure to check out.

FKA twigs

The War On Drugs

Run The Jewels

Father John Misty

Panda Bear

Ex Hex

Deerhunter

Also on the bill:

Saturday: STS9, Gorgon City (Live), Hudson Mohawke, Cashmere Cat, Viceroy, Shamir, Baio, Bob Moses and Skylar Spence.

Sunday: Chvrches, Jose Gonzalez, Deerhunter, Drive Like Jehu, Lower Dens, Ex Hex, Mikal Cronin, Viet Cong and Ought.

UPDATE: Azealia Banks had been slated to perform, but has since been removed from the lineup, as she is canceling her entire national tour. In her place, the Big Boi (of Outkast) and Phantogram collaboration, Big Grams, will be making their live debut at the festival.

Treasure Island Music festival will return this October with one of its most eclectic lineups to date with The National and Deadmau5 headline the two-day party in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.

Other highlights include Scottish electro pop group Chvrches, acoustic crooners Father John Misty and Jose Gonzalez and hip hop buzz duo Run the Jewels.

The festival, traditionally the last event in a long Bay Area outdoor concert season, arrives this year Oct. 17-18. With two stages on a small footprint, performances are staggered throughout the day so it’s technically possible to catch every performance throughout the day. However, there are numerous opportunities for distraction with a silent disco area, a giant Ferris wheel that offers epic views of the San Francisco skyline and numerous vendors.

The daily lineup has not yet been released but it typically features more dance-oriented acts on Saturday. Tickets go on sale June 11 at 10am. More info.

The Complete Lineup:

The National
Deadmau5
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique
Chvrches

The War on Drugs
Azealia Banks
Father John Misty
STS9

Run the Jewels
Panda Bear
Gorgon City (Live)
Jose Gonzalez

Hudson Mohawke
Deerhunter
Cashmere Cat
Drive like Jehu
Viceroy
Lower Dens
Shamir
Ex Hex

Mikal Cronin
Baio
Viet Cong
Bob Moses
Ought
Skylar Spence

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.

The Treasure Island Music Festival returned to San Francisco with two days of music, featuring Atoms for Peace, Beck, Major, Lazer, Sleigh Bells and many more.

Metro photographer Ignacio Lopez made the trip to check out he party.

The Treasure Island Music Festival, one of the last festivals of the summer music festival season, arrives October 19-20 with Atoms for Peace, Beck, Animal Collective, Major Lazer and more.

The two-day festival features two alternating stages, allowing attendees to catch every act. The daily schedule has not yet been released, but the festival usually features mostly electronic and dance music acts on Saturday and rock acts on Sunday.

We’re guessing the Thom Yorke and Flea’s beat-oriented collaboration Atoms For Peace will headline on Saturday and Beck will close the festival out on Sunday.

The Complete Lineup:

Atoms For Peace
Beck
Animal Collective
Major Lazer
James Blake
Little Dragon
Sleigh Bells
Phantogram
STRFKR
Holy Ghost!
Japandroids
Tricky
Real Estate
Disclosure
Lord Huron
DJ Falcom
Haim
Palma Violets
Poolside
Adult.
Cayucas
Robert DeLong
IO Echo
Giraffage
Deep Sea Diver
Antwon

We will share more details, including daily schedule, as information arrives.