Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment are thrilled to announce the inclusion of the 2500 square foot ?Treasure Trove? to the growing list of attractions at the second installment of the Treasure Island Music Festival which takes place September 20-21. The ‘Treasure Trove’ is an interactive art and culture tent that will highlight Bay Area artists and galleries while giving festival goers a chance to take a break from the music. Festival goers will compose their own music on the Octamasher, lounge in the ?zine corner (hosted by San Francisco ?Zine Fest) and peruse innovative DIY print publications or sink inside art duo Ribbons? bathtub sculpture and relax with delicately sampled audio recordings. Triple Base Gallery will be bringing elements of their successful show, ?Open for Business? where contemporary artists and inventors will each provide an offering of goods, services or information to the public. Fest-goers will also feast their eyes on photos, collages, silkscreen prints, posters, and paintings in the Treasure Trove Gallery. Pieces will be for sale to the public. ?Treasure Trove? is co-curated by Betty Nguyen of San Francisco based contemporary arts publication First Person Magazine (http://www.firstpersonmag.com).

Treasure Island Music Festival is also proud to announce new additions to the already stellar line-up: Loquat and Chester French have been added to Saturday Sept 20th and Port O?Brien and the Morning Benders to Sunday Sept 21st. Similar to last year the first day of the festival will feature an electronic and dance leaning lineup including Justice, Tv On The Radio, Goldfrapp, Hot Chip, CSS, Antibalas, Aesop Rock, Amon Tobin, Foals, Mike Relm, Nortec: Bostich + Fussible. And the 2nd day will highlight one-of-a-kind line-up of highly regarded established and emerging indie rock band such as The Raconteurs, Tegan & Sara, Vampire Weekend, Spiritualized, Okkervil River, Tokyo Police Club, The Kills, Dr. Dog, John Vanderslice, The Dodos and Fleet Foxes (Full line-up below)

Saturday September 20th
JUSTICE
TV ON THE RADIO
GOLDFRAPP
HOT CHIP
CSS
ANTIBALAS
AESOP ROCK
AMON TOBIN
FOALS
MIKE RELM
NORTEC: BOSTICH + FUSSIBLE
LOQUAT
CHESTER FRENCH

Sunday September 21st
THE RACONTEURS
TEGAN & SARA
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
SPIRITUALIZED
OKKERVIL RIVER
TOKYO POLICE CLUB
THE KILLS
DR. DOG
JOHN VANDERSLICE
THE DODOS
FLEET FOXES
THE MORNING BENDERS
PORT O?BRIEN

The festival producers also plan to build upon the success of last years greening initiative. In 2007, Treasure Island Music Festival implemented a festival-wide composting system, and are extremely proud to achieve a 72% waste diversion rate, the second-best of any San Francisco event in 2007. In all, the festival composted or recycled over 9 tons of waste! Hosting a festival at such a beautiful site as Treasure Island makes it even more important to minimize our carbon footprint. This year, the Festival plan to take the next step, aiming for an even higher waste diversion rate and further reducing their carbon footprint by provide zero-emission buses to transport concert go-ers from AT&T Park to Treasure Island, using biodiesel generators and giving ticket purchasers with have the opportunity to add $1 to ?Green? their ticket and help offset the Treasure Island Music Festival?s carbon dioxide emissions.

Organized by the creators of the Noise Pop Festival, one of the nation?s longest-running music festivals, and Another Planet Entertainment, a nationally established independent concert promoter based in Berkeley, CA, the Treasure Island Music Festival has been called a ?full blown love affair? by SPIN.COM, and has SF WEEKLY boasting that ?NorCal has its own Micro-achella.?

The two-day celebration will have plenty of interactive activities for the audience including bringing back the 60ft. tall ferris wheel, performance artists Big Nazo, free hairstyling from Madu Salon, a 32ft. live painted mural wall (featuring notable Bay Area Artists (Andrew Schoultz, Hillary Pecis, and Tara Foley), and double-dutch and hula hoop lessons, just to name a few of the exciting things available in addition to the music for concert-goers.

To off-set traffic congestion and limited amount of parking on Treasure Island, Another Planet and Noise Pop will be providing transportation on and off the island to ticket holders at no additional cost to patrons. Included in Single-Day and Two-Day ticket price is complimentary parking at AT&T Park (San Francisco) with transportation to/from the island from 11AM- 11PM each day. Additional means to gain access to the island without purchasing VIP tickets or taking the complimentary shuttle from Lot A would be through Muni / AC Transit (via 108 at the Transbay Terminal), taxi service, or limo / private shuttle rental.

Treasure Island Music Festival runs from 12:00PM to 10:00PM each day. Single day tickets cost $65.00. Two-day tickets cost $115.00. There will also be a limited quantity of VIP tickets sold as a four-pack, which includes four VIP tickets to one day of the festival, one VIP parking spot on the island, preferred viewing area, VIP Lounge with full bar and other amenities for $445.00.

On October 7th, 2008, multi-platinum Nettwerk recording artist Sarah McLachlan will release the first best-of collection of her long and illustrious career.

Closer: The Best Of Sarah McLachlan contains 14 classic tracks personally selected by the artist from her award-winning catalog, as well as two newly recorded and previously unreleased songs, “U Want Me 2″ and “Don’t Give Up On US,” working with her longtime producer Pierre Marchand. Additionally, a deluxe 2-CD version will be available, which will include the 16 song album plus a bonus disc of additional songs from Sarah’s discography.

In celebration of Closer, Sarah will be releasing “U Want Me 2″ as the first new single since releasing original music in 2003. Available digitally on August 12th, “U Want Me 2″ will impact your radio waves and digital retailers instantly. Be the first to own this piece of the abiding Sarah McLachlan legacy on August 12th by purchasing “U Want Me 2″ directly from her official online store or on iTunes.

Since signing with Nettwerk nearly two decades ago, every one of Sarah McLachlan’s studio and live albums and videos have been certified gold, platinum, multi-platinum, or diamond by the CRIA, starting with Touch (1988) and Solace (1991), both platinum sellers. Her 1993 breakthrough, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (3x platinum) was followed by the digitally enhanced multimedia version of The Freedom Sessions (1996, gold). Sarah’s landmark fourth album, the Diamond certified Surfacing (1997), contained two Grammy Award-winning tracks, as “Building a Mystery” won for Best Female Pop Vocal, and “Last Dance” was voted Best Pop Instrumental. 1999’s quadruple-platinum Mirrorball, and its platinum long-form video counterpart, were both culled from that year’s Lilith Fair tour, and spun off Sarah’s third Grammy-winning performance, as “I Will Remember You” won for Best Female Pop Vocal. The 5 times platinum Afterglow followed in 2003, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, while its opening track, “Fallen” was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal.

Here are some of the highlights of Closer: The Best Of Sarah McLachlan:

- “Good Enough,” “Possession” – Both tracks are culled from Sarah McLachlan’s third Nettwerk album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (released 10/22/1993), her commercial break through and first Billboard Top 50 chart entry. “McLachlan never flinches, never takes the easy route of cliche and formula. This care and attention given to her art allows each song to stand strong individually, making the whole an extraordinary collection.” (AllMusic.com)

- “Building A Mystery” – Taken from the Diamond-certified album Surfacing (released 7/15/1997), which entered the Billboard chart at Number Two, “Building A Mystery” won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal. (”Last Dance,” a second track from Surfacing not included on the new collection, was voted Best Pop Instrumental.)

- “I Will Remember You” – Sarah McLachlan founded the legendary Lilith Tour in 1997 and her quadruple-platinum album, Mirrorball (released 6/15/1999), was recorded live during the 1999 tour. “I Will Remember You” from Mirrorball earned Sarah her third career Grammy Award, again in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal.

- “Fallen” – The opening track from Sarah’s double-platinum album Afterglow (released 11/4/2003), which reached Number Two on the Billboard Top 200. “Fallen” was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Feale Pop Vocal. In addition, Afterglow was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.

- “U Want Me 2,” “Don’t Give Up On Us” – Composed by Sarah McLachlan and co-produced by Sarah and Pierre Marchand, these new recordings will be a special treat for fans who eagerly await the follow-up to Afterglow, Sarah’s last album of all-original material.

Nettwerk Records is distributed by Sony BMG Music Canada.

Atlanta-based Deerhunter are set to tour in support of Microcastle, the follow-up to 2006’s Cryptograms. Microcastle will be released simultaneously on CD and LP via Kranky in North America and 4AD for the rest of the world on October 28, 2008. This tour comes on the heels of a handful of dates opening for Nine Inch Nails. Times New Viking will be opening for all dates, with additional support from BARR, Knyfe Hyts, Vivian Girls and more in various cities.

Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver, and Moses Archuleta. “Saved by Old Times” features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips. The album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt: “Agoraphobia,” and “Neither of Us, Uncertainly.”

DEERHUNTER TOUR DATES
10/31/2008 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta^
11/01/2008 Orange Peel, Asheville
11/02/2008 Cats Cradle, Carrboro
11/03/2008 Ottobar, Baltimore
11/04/2008 Black Cat, Washington*
11/05/2008 First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia*
11/06/2008 Terrace F. Club, Princeton*
11/07/2008 Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn*
11/08/2008 Bowery Ballroom, New York%
11/10/2008 Paradise, Boston%
11/11/2008 Theatre Plaza, Montreal ^^
11/12/2008 Lees Palace, Toronto^^
11/13/2008 Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac**
11/14/2008 Grog Shop, Cleveland Heights**
11/15/2008 Metro, Chicago**
11/16/2008 High Noon Saloon, Madison**
11/17/2008 Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis**
11/20/2008 Richards On Richards, Vancouver !
11/21/2008 Neumos, Seattle !
11/24/2008 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco !
11/25/2008 El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles !
11/28/2008 Casbah, San Diego
11/29/2008 Modified Arts, Phoenix
12/01/2008 Palladium Loft, Dallas
12/02/2008 Emos Alternative Lounge Outside, Austin
12/03/2008 Warehouse Live, Houston
12/04/2008 Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge
12/05/2008 One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans
12/06/2008 Bottletree, Birmingham

TIMES NEW VIKING OPENING ALL DATES

^With Pylon

*With Knyfe Hyts

%With Vivian Girls

^^With Neighborhood Council

**With Disappears

! With BARR

www.popmontreal.com

CONFIRMED ARTISTS: Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hot Chip, Crystal Castles, Black Kids, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Beach House, The Persuasions, Silver Apples, Dan Deacon, Vetiver, Cori Bishop (aka Elyse Weinberg), Dark Meat, Socalled, Jason Collett, Julie Doiron United Steel Workers of Montreal, The Dodos, Liam Finn, Wintersleep, Headlights, Playdoe, Dabaaz, Kim, Eric Bélanger, The Veils, WIRE, St Catherines, Thomas Function, Chad Van Gaalen, Dominique Grange & Jacques Tardi, Great Lake Swimmers, Katie Moore, Woodhands, Sam Shalabi, Gatineau, Chocolat, Irma Thomas, Wedding Present, Evangelicals, Jana Hunter, Cex, Teeth Mountain, Teki Latex, D’Urbervilles, Michie Mee, and so much more!*

2008 will be a year like no other for *POP Montreal*. We have been inspired like never before. A rumbling from the underground has struck our souls and we are happy to offer you the first glimpse at our initial programming. To begin we have the insurmountable songwriting legend *Burt Bacharach*, perhaps the single most important figure in popular music of the 20^th. As far as legends go there may be no greater voice than that of the Grammy winning *Irma Thomas*, the undisputed Soul Queen of New Orleans who will make an exclusive appearance at the festival this year. If you’re getting excited, hold your breath; we will also have shows by the amazingly prolific and poetic-punk troubadour *Nick Cave*, the seminal and brilliant *WIRE*, and the godfathers of experimental electronic psych *Silver Apples.* In addition, there will be the single most important benchmark for a cappella music, Brooklyn’s *The Persuasions*. Added to this list are other stand-outs including Canadian rap legend, *Michie Mee*, upstarts like *Black Kids, Crystal Castles, Dan Deacon *and *The Dodos*, as well as *Hot Chip, Vetiver, T. Raumschmiere, Teki Latex, Dark Meat, Ste Catherines, Liam Finn, *and reclusive Neil Young collaborator *Elyse Weinberg* (go ahead! google her). We will also have a special commissioned composers series with, among others, original pieces by *Socalled*, performed at porn theatre *Cinéma L’Amour.* This is just the beginning, we have lots more to come including all of our fun segments + new things like: Kids POP, our very first gear exchange and record shop, and the enigmatic art of *Mingering Mike*. Stay tuned!

*POP MONTREAL SEGMENTS!*

Introducing… *KIDS POP*
Pop Montreal is pleased to extend the fun to the kids! This year, kids and youth can explore Montreal’s innovative cultural scene at Kids Pop. A variety of shows, demonstrations and workshops will be offered that connect artists with young folks in order to share skills, encourage artistic expression and enjoy Montreal’s cultural offerings.

*PUCES POP*
In its 4th year, Puces Pop is a DIY festival that celebrates independent creation. It features a marketplace of handmade goods, a record sale and gear swap, a series of free arts & crafts workshops and a mini-seminar on business skills for self-employed artists. It’s all kicked off by a fashion show with a $2000 prize!
*ART POP*
The Visual Arts component of Pop Montreal, Art Pop’s purpose is to showcase fun and exciting artists that resonate with the youthful energy of its musical counterpart. Look out for some wild technologies, superheroes, Japanese copycats, French activists, teenage passion, digital vandalism and crazy good times in general. And cute cats too.
*SYMPOSIUM – Talk Music to Me!*
Pop Montreal’s Symposium is a music conference like no other: all programming is artist-driven, interdisciplinary, and reflective of our city’s diverse and lively culture. We will be bringing together a discerning and savvy force of thinkers and artists to present panel discussions, keynote interviews, listening sessions, as well as hands-on workshops and round-tables.
*FILM POP*
Film Pop gets schooled and goes back to its roots! More musically inclined than ever before, with Paris’ Vincent Moon’s views on /All Tomorrow’s Parties/, workshops on writing music for film, rockabilly the 514 way, NFB 3-D reveries, and some headlining surprises, you’ll definitely want to be watching more attentively during this 5th edition of Pop’s cinematic offspring.

*Passes on sale now!*
Early Bird special until August 31st : $175+tx
After August 31st : $225+tx
After September 30th : $275+tx
Pop Pass : $70+tx
*Tickets for individual shows also available!*
See www.popmontreal.com for details.

The Chicago based band have announced a fall headlining tour to coincide with the release of their new album Appeal To Reason due out October 7th, 2008 on DGC/Interscope Records.

The Live Nation produced tour will include openers Alkaline Trio, Thrice and The Gaslight Anthem. Official tour dates to be announced soon.

The band teamed up with Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendents) and Jason Livermore to record at the Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, CO- the same production team and studio used for “The Sufferer & the Witness” and “Revolutions Per Minute.”

About Rise Against:

Rise Against are vocalist Tim McIlrath, bassist Joe Principe, drummer Brandon Barnes and guitarist Zach Blair. In spring 2001, the band released their debut CD “The Unraveling” on Fat Wreck Chords. After two years of solid touring, Rise Against recorded “Revolutions Per Minute” (2002), followed by “Siren Song Of The Counter-Culture” (2004) produced by Gggarth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Melvins, Sick Of It All). “The Sufferer & the Witness” was released in 2006 and debuted at #10 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Appeal To Reason is the band’s fifth studio album

Lori Michaels

WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO: Lori Michaels “Meet Me At The Partay”

NOTEWORTHY:

If you like it when the buzz about a performer ends up being all true – stay tuned to Lori Michaels. Her full-length CD debut, “Living My Life Out Loud,” couldn’t be more aptly titled, period – and is slated for release on Reform Records.

She’s been singing and dancing since she could talk and walk. But Michaels’ career launched into new orbit in 2006, following her official “Coming Out” party at the House of Blues’ Club Worship in Atlantic City. It was a House of Blues first, and a turning point for Michaels in her evolution to in-demand solo artist and nationwide headliner with her head-turning Me & The Girls shows.

In a time when coming out has evolved from something equated with fear to something much more about freedom, Michaels has freed her artistic soul to deliver “Living My Life Out Loud.” It is a testament to, above all else, her love of the song – whether that means writing, arranging and performing the vocals (lead and backgrounds), showcasing her talents on the piano/keys, or overseeing production with the best in the business to leave listeners breathless.

Since her Coming Out in March of 2006, Michaels has taken Me & The Girls to venues including a Ladies Rock concert in Philadelphia, opening engagements for the Village People and Ashford & Simpson, a headliner performance for Showtime and the Human Rights Campaign at the New York City 2008 L Word Premiere Party, a Sing Out for AIDS special guest performance with Betty (of Showtime’s L Word), and Pride events from New York all the way to California.

SPRING TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

Garage/punk rock artist Jay Reatard is no stranger to the 7″ format, having released dozens over the years, including his current series of six limited edition 7″s on Matador Records (#3 comes out on June 24).

2006 and 2007 was an insanely prolific time for Jay, as he left behind his many bands and projects (among them The Reatards, The Lost Sounds, Angry Angles, Final Solutions, Bad Times, Terror Visions, etc.) and started recording under his own name, taking musical cues from Wipers, Wire, The Clean, The Adverts, and 999. Five singles were released around the time of his breakthrough album Blood Visions, as some of those album’s songs first appeared in versions on 7″ singles first.

Culled from now long out-of-print singles on In The Red, Goner, Squoodge, P. Trash, and Stained Circles, in pressings which ranged from 500 to 3000, Singles 06-07 highlights 17 songs of Jay at his most creative and hyper-melodic. Here Jay plays all the instruments on all the songs (save one guitar part on “All Wasted” by Alix Brown of Angry Angels), and recorded, mixed, and mastered all the recordings. The deluxe package also includes four live concerts capturing Jay’s blistering, breakneck shows from Philadelphia, Las Vegas, New York City, and The Netherlands.

Jay will soon be heading out on the road again, playing festivals in Chicago, Seattle, and Denmark, opening for Spoon and Le Savy Fav, and headlining many shows with support from In The Red artist Cheap Time. Dates below.

Meanwhile Jay has just completed the final songs for Matador’s single series, all six of which will be compiled on a CD/LP compilation to be released this September. He’s now hard at work on his next full-length and proper Matador Records debut, slated for an early 2009 release.

JAY REATARD TOUR DATES
Sun July 6 Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark (with Slayer, Judas Priest, Neil Young)
Mon July 14 Philadelphia Johnny Brendas
Tue July 15 Brooklyn Prospect Park Bandshell (with Spoon)
Thu July 17 Providence Lupo’s (with Spoon)
Sat July 19 Chicago Pitchfork Music Festival (with King Khan & The Shrines, Times New Viking, Dinosaur Jr.)
Sun July 20 Minneapolis Triple Rock (with Cheap Time)
Mon July 21 Fargo The Aquarium (with Cheap Time)
Thu July 24 Seattle Capitol Hill Block Party (with Le Savy Fav)
Fri July 25 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom (with Le Savy Fav)
Sat July 26 Portland Doug Fir (with Cheap Time)
Mon July 28 San Francisco The Independent (with Cheap Time)
Wed July 30 Los Angeles The Echo (with Cheap Time)
Thu July 31 San Diego The Casbah (with Cheap Time)
Fri Aug 1 Mesa AZ Hollywood Alley (with Cheap Time)
Sun Aug 3 Austin Red 7 (with Cheap Time)
Mon Aug 4 Dallas Club Dada (with Cheap Time)