This past October, the Treasure Island Music Festival raised its masts for the fifth annual festival. Aliens, hipsters, fashionistas, and many USF-ers alike enjoyed a killer line-up, created various free crafts, and silently disco-ed from noon to midnight. Saturday’s acts included Empire of the Sun, Flying Lotus, Chromeo, and Death From Above 1979. Day two featured Warpaint, St. Vincent, Friendly Fires, Beach House, and Death Cab for Cutie.
Throughout the musical performances on both days of the event, festivalgoers were encouraged to explore the annual Treasure Chest – a “vendor village” featuring Bay Area merchants like San Franpsycho and Stolen Sunday.
A wooden-legged hop away from the Treasure Chest, attendees found Camp D.I.Y., hosted by Workshop, where free supplies for making crafts like dream catchers and beer koozies were passed along among the more craftier visitors.
Trending at this year’s peak-of-the-Indian-Summer festival was the imperfect, grungier look –
like ripped stockings as worn my Warpaint’s Theresa Wayman. For hair, we saw brightly dyed
tips or half-buzzed heads on the most current girls in attendance. As Death Cab’s final lights dimmed out to leave our favorite city’s skyline to commandeer the view, satisfied festivalgoers crossed the bridge with enthusiasm for this jewel of festival’s next marooning on the island.