Treasure Island 2013 day 1 in pics (Atoms for Peace, Danny Brown, Disclosure, Little Dragon, Phantogram & more)

October 23, 2013

Atoms for Peace / Disclosure / fans

Giraffage kicked things off at noon during Saturday’s stretch of the festival after an introduction from Noise Pop/Salty Artist Management’s Chad Heimann aka Chad Salty, performing sample-driven dance music for the early crowd. Giraffage’s two-girl “skate squad” roller skated around the stage, waving an American flag as Charlie dropped the bass-heavy banger “Money”, leading into his remix of “Party in the USA”.

Antwon cranked up the bass on the Tunnel Stage with local producer Nanosaur and rapper Sad Andy backing his punk-inspired rap songs. The Nature Boy gang performed fan favorites such as “Dark Denim”, “Helicopter”, and “Living Every Dream”. Sad Andy did not perform “Ferragamo”, despite audience requests. However, Antwon did stop the beats to lead the crowd in a singalong of “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys.

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Holy Ghost! performed a fun set of colorful dance rock, followed by Little Dragon on the Bridge Stage. Phantogram drew an impressive crowd to Saturday’s final set on the Tunnel Stage, with the duo debuting danceable new material despite a few harsh feedback issues. Fireworks went off across the bay as the band performed. Atoms For Peace closed out the evening with a hooded Flea, and Thom Yorke singing tracks from AMOK while busting out his unique dance moves. [The Bay Bridged]

While CMJ was going down in NYC, across the country in San Francisco, the annual two-day Treasure Island Music Festival (10/19-20) returned. The first day had a mostly electronic-oriented lineup, featuring sets from Atoms for Peace, Major Lazer, Little Dragon, Phantogram, Disclosure, Danny Brown and more. Pictures from that day are in this post, and a set of day 2 pics is on the way.

For Holy Ghost!, the festival was part of their tour which hits NYC for a show at Terminal 5 on Halloween (tickets).

For Little Dragon, it was part of their tour which hits NYC tonight (10/23) at Bowery Ballroom and Thursday (10/24) at MHOW for sold-out shows with SZA.

More Treasure Island day 1 pictures below…

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