​This year's Treasure Island music festival will be headlined by Empire of the Sun on Oct. 15 and Death Cab for Cutie on Oct. 16. As the headliners suggest, the first day will lean more heavily toward electronica, while the second will be more indie-rockish. This year will be the festival's fifth.

Hit the jump for the rest of the lineup, plus information on tickets and parking -- it was all announced this morning and the site has (predictably) totally crashed.

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Michael Flack

Night Moves: These Are Powers

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We've almost reached the end of festival season. After this weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, there's just one more big outdoor event looming on the horizon: the Treasure Island Music Festival. This year's lineup, which veers from the mainstream/frat-rock tinge of Outside Lands into more underground/indie/electronic/urban territories, looks promising.

And just like with Outside Lands, TIMF promoters have announced several "night shows" which keep the music going well into the evening hours. Appearing at the Independent are Pretty Lights and DJ Rootz on Thursday, October 15; A Place to Bury Strangers, These Are Powers, All the Saints and geographer Saturday, October 17; and Mike Posner with Big Sean Sunday, October 18. Also on Sunday, Mezzanine hosts Dan Deacon, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, BLK JKS, Future Islands, Teeth Mountain, Nuclear Power Pants, and DJ sets by Bob Mould and Aaron Axelsen. Tickets for the festival are available here . And night show tix can be had here and here .

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Today, Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop announced the return--yaaargh!--of the Treasure Island Music Fest. The now-annual celebration of indie rock and sub-mainstream electronic acts is scheduled for October 17 & 18, 2009. At this early stage, no acts have been confirmed, and the TIMF website offers no further info, just a clickable link to be notified as updates occur. Watch this space for more info, as it becomes available.

Here are some more photos for those of you who couldn't make it out to the island last weekend. All shots by Sam Heller. --Janine Kahn

Still wondering where the treasure on the isle is...

Singing along.

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By David Downs and Paul Quitoriano

Clink on the photo to start the tattoo slideshow. Vote for the best and worst in the comments below (no log-in required!) and we'll select a winner to receive two free tickets to a Cafe Du Nord show of your choice. -d2

Best Of Treasure Island Music Festival Photos by David Downs and Paul Quitoriano

Click on the above photo to go to a slideshow of our best pics of the fans, the island, the bands and the monsters. Tomorrow, we'll debut a special slideshow we call "The Back Tattoos of Treasure Island," so bookmark us for that.

Treasure Island Music Festival
September 15 and 16, 2007
Treasure Island, CA.
Better than: Pirates vs. Ninjas in steel cage
Download: Some TIMF photos
By David Downs

Thousand of Bay Areans enjoyed a nice day in the park over the weekend -- except this garden party cost $60 in admission, and came with top-notch musical accompaniment, $7 drinks, grass, sun, a video arcade, a ferris wheel, friends, and stunning view of the Bay.

Cold War relic Treasure Island – smack dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay -- stirred from a decade of post-military slumber Saturday and Sunday to host 16 bands on two stages over two days and about 10,000 ...

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By David Downs. Photos by David Downs and Paul Quitoriano

5:09 p.m. Saturday Sept 15. Treasure Island
San Franciscans enjoy an eminently humble, modest festival with two stages and under a dozen bands at Treasure Island today. Bright sun, a swift breeze and about 10,000 people on a narrow strip next to the beach greets incoming visitors. The view of the City is extraordinarily beautiful, as well as the collection of men and women presenting some skin but keeping jackets nearby for when the the cool air moves in off ...

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The history of the 70 year-old island.

At the Indy and Mezz in conjunction with the Music Fest.