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It's the music fest that all the hip kids and true indie and indie-ish music fans have been waiting all year for, and it's finally here. The two-day long Treasure Island Music Festival kicks off on Saturday, and the line-up is pretty swell -- with the likes of Passion Pit, The Streets, Girl Talk, Brazilian Girls and MGMT on Saturday; and Grizzly Bear, Beirut, The Decemberists, The Walkmen, Yo La Tengo, and The Flaming Lips on Sunday. ALSO, the 12-2pm slots both days are filled with fun local acts like Murs, The Limousines, Crown City Rockers, Sleepy Sun, and Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, so show up early and represent.

A couple weeks back we filled in the Friday Drinks column with a post about Cline Cellars, and today we're back with the launch of a new column about local wineries which we're going to call Wednesday Wine Tasting until we come up with something better.

One of the best sets of the weekend at Outside Lands was by the skinny Brooklyn duo known as Matt & Kim. Their energy is infectious, and in this video, shot last February, they wander through Times Square stripping off their clothes, to the many shocked and amused looks of tourists. We give it to you here, both in honor of Outside Lands decompression and in honor of yesterday's February weather.

                            

As many of you probably know, the weather took a turn for the San Franciscan on Sunday and Golden Gate Park remained socked in all day. But that did not deter fans from coming out to Outside Lands to see their beloved M.I.A. (who made a single shout-out to the Beasties and sang a two-song cover medley, and also had two slightly creepy twin redhead backup dancers), Modest Mouse and of course, Tenacious D. Whatever you may say about them not being real musicians, they certainly are entertainers, and from the flat screen TVs in the Winehaven wine tent their set sure did look fun. Band of Horses' late set in Lindley Meadow was mesmerizing and mellow, and Calexico also did a bang-up job with six or seven horns on stage to boot. But the best performance of the day, if we had to choose, came from recently re-issued soul singer Bettye LaVette, who sang a doozy of a number called "Let Me Down Easy" and also covered Sam Cooke's "Change is Gonna Come," which she sang at President Obama's inauguration. See some pics here, also including Slug of Atmosphere fame, the hippie-hunky Avett Brothers, the "brothers" Gene and Dean Ween who constitute Ween, and those joyful and boisterous kids from Brooklyn, Matt & Kim.

                    

The second day of Outside Lands on Saturday was equally as hot (temperature-wise) as the first, and the crowd was estimated at near the festival's capacity of 60,000 -- and it was all probably thanks to Dave Matthews Band and The Black Eyed Peas (and not, as we might have hoped, TV on the Radio, who were nonetheless swell). Other highlights were the Street Sweeper Social Club (featuring Boots Riley of The Coup and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine), Deerhunter, Bat for Lashes, the ever emotive Conor Oberst, and we got to hand it to Jason Mraz for keeping it breezy with a set of surf music -- not our thing, but the girls seem to like it. Here are some pics by SFist music editor Moses Namkung, and a gallery of Day 3 is here.

                              

It was hotter than anyone could have dreamed possible for August in SF yesterday, and the sun stayed out much of the day for the opening of the Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park yesterday. Many fans of all ages showed up, and judging from the crowd on the Polo Field around 8 p.m., Pearl Jam is still huge! Who knew. Here we bring you some pics from the scene, including Akron/Family, Los Campesinos! (who were sort of like The Psychedelic Furs meets Le Tigre), Silversun Pickups, Blind Pilot, The National (who were phenomenal), Thievery Corporation, and of course, the now white-haired but still rocking Tom Jones. Apologies for all ye Eddie Vedder fans -- there were special approvals required to photograph His Highness, and we were not among the chosen.

The benevolent folks at SF Bike Coalition will help you keep your bike safe and sound while you're at this weekend's Outside Lands Festival. SFBC says, "keep your bike safe and secure at our complimentary bike valet at outside lands this weekend." So, if you can, ditch your car and grab your bike (or walk, roll, take public transportation, etc.) before heading to the festival.

We're not sure if Sean McCourt at the Guardian got old Sex Bomb on the phone, or whether these statements came through a publicist, but there's a brief interview with that legendary piece of hairy man candy, Tom Jones up on their Noise blog. Jones, who'll be playing a 6:50 set at Outside Lands this evening, says he doesn't change his act no matter what the size of the crowd, or the location. "If there are people out there and they've come to see me, I'm going to give it the best I can... I don't change the show from Las Vegas to a festival because I don't do a 'Vegas' act anyway. I don't use any dancing girls — it's a concert I'm doing. My show is basically the same, [though] I maybe make sure I cover the stage a little bit more."

This track off of Thievery Corporation's lastest album features jazz guitarist Chuck Brown, a.k.a. The Godfather of Go-Go. Check out TC, maybe with Chuck in tow, at Outside Lands tomorrow night, simultaneous with Pearl Jam's set.

The weather for Outside Lands this weekend is looking downright grand, so for those of you with tickets and those still on the fence, SFist brings you this roundup of highlights.

Oakland's own Loop Station! comprises the classically trained duo of Sam Bass and Robin Coomer, and their unique mix of cello and raw, lyrical emotion has earned them a gaggle of Bay Area fans. They perform live, each with a foot-pedal-controlled loop station tool that they use to layer cello and voice tracks over one another. They'll be playing two sets this weekend at Outside Lands, one early on Friday and one on Saturday. Here's a video of them performing "The Last Time I Saw You" at DNA back in '06.

Good news, music-loving hermits. YouTube announced today that they will live stream this weekend's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. The live broadcast can be found over at youtube.com/outsidelands beginning Friday, August 28 until Sunday, August 30. The festival coverage will include such notables as that Dave Matthews guy, Jason Mraz, Thievery Corporation, The Dead Weather, Silversun Pickups, Raphael Saadiq, Tenacious D, Cage the Elephant, Atmosphere, and M.I.A. (who should prove most interesting since she doesn't want to be there in the first place.) Also, there's an Outside Lands app available for those of you with iPhones.

Well, this is, as the gays say, just fabulous. The glorious M.I.A. took to Twitter on Saturday to (rightfully) bitch about having to open for Tenacious D, that funny-/fat-man band your younger brother likes, who replaced the ailing Beastie Boys at Outside Lands Festival.

Your cleanser du jour comes to us from one of the bands we're most looking forward to seeing this weekend at Outside Lands, Brooklyn's own The National. They'll be playing on Friday at 5 p.m. (right before Tom Jones (!) on the Sutro Stage), and here for your listening and viewing pleasure is a live studio rendition of "Slow Show."