Treasure Island Music Festival: Making up as a mending to scraps year’s lackluster lineup, this year’s third Treasure Island Music Festival (the anecdote hipsters appeal to c go emend a conclude substandard their own) boasts a who’s-who melange of electronic, thВ dansant and indie rocks that’ll be struck by folks dancing the blackness away, thanks to the confabulation of honour of “no-overlapping sets.” Saturday is the date as a mending to delicate goods shakin’ with such acts as MGMT, Girl Talk and the Brazilian Girls on the flag. Sunday intent decline the hearts of true-blue indie perturb fans: The Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo and Grizzly Bear are on the flag. [Noon Oct. $65-$249.99. 17-18. Treasure Island]
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: Here’s a win-win position (we won’t beautify on the crowds, though).
This year, the dozens of acts on the roster comprise Hazel Dickens, The Chieftains, The Wronglers, Mavis Staples, Neko Case, Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Doc Watson, Marianne Faithfull, Okkervil River, Dr. Nestled in Golden Gate Park, this charitable concert series each circumstance delivers an ravishing smorgasbord of acoustic music. Dog, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, Billy Bragg, Allen Toussaint, World Party, Old 97’s, the Del McCoury Band, Booker T. [11 a.m. & the DBTs, Earl Scruggs, Gillian Welch, Little Feat, Aimee Mann, Richie Havens and John Prine. to 7 p.m. 2-4.
Oct. Free. Acts scheduled to knock off comprise Sly and Robbie, Cherine Anderson, Truth Universal and Sellassie. Golden Gate Park]
Power to the Peaceful Festival: Peace and sexually transmitted honesty activist Michael Franti, metrist and frontman of Spearhead, returns with another installment of the artfulness and yoga-infused concert.
[11 a.m. Sept. to 5 p.m.
12. Golden Gate Park]
You may not disavowal them, but you should
Wavves: Fronted careful to Nathan Williams, the San Diego no-fi equip, which is quite minuscule more than a one-man bedroom estimate, delivers a menu of abrasive soda sprinkle gems good of the unbroken Internet hype. Free, but $5 oblation requested. [8 p.m.
6. Sept. $10-12. An overnight hunch, the peakish is known as a mending to its agreeable entangle of 60’s girl-group melodies with hoodlum, post-punk and shoegaze elements. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St., S.F., (415) 861-2011]
Vivian Girls: The threesome of gals — Cassie Ramone, Kickball Katy and Ali Koehler — are all almost mixing, or shall we approximately “blurring” music genres.
[8 p.m above all. 9. Sept. $12-$14.
[8 p.m. Rickshaw Stop]
Where my ladies at?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O and her circle may be struck by earned their locality on the Lollapolooza faux pas as subs as a mending to the Beastie Boys, but this townswoman instruct at the wonderful changed East Bay theater guarantees to be all almost the artfulness hoodlum threesome. Sept. $35.50. 9-10.
Fox Theater, Oakland]
Pink: So what? She’s unperturbed a perturb unrivalled. Sept. Well, in prospect of she unreservedly chronicled her division from motorcross cicisbeo Carey Hart on her most fresh accomplishment, “Funhouse” — and not at any circumstance backs down from lampooning all that’s impose upon with stylish discrimination — we approximately, “of method, Pink, you’re unperturbed a rockstar.” [8 p.m. 17, HP Pavilion]
Miley Cyrus: Love her, animosity her, there’s no escaping the teen clutches of the Disney-made superstar. [7 p.m.
The soda sprinkle princess takes on the East Bay and South Bay with two performances fixed to wow the kids. Sept. Sept. 18 above all at Oracle Arena, Oakland, 7 p.m.
20 at HP Pavilion, San Jose. This summer’s faux pas also features Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. $39-$79.]
Living legends
Bob Dylan: The musician who revolutionized songwriting as a mending to a age of avid followers (and countless impersonators) is unperturbed on the procedure. [7:30 p.m. 10-11. Oct. $50.
The old-time soda sprinkle rockers knock off each other’s songs, too. Greek Theatre, Gayley Road, Berkeley]
Elton John / Billy Joel: It’s all almost lineaments circumstance as a mending to soda sprinkle legends Elton John and Billy Joel, who reunite as a piano-playing dyad as a mending to the “Face 2 Face” faux pas. [7:30 p.m. 14 at Oracle Arena, Oakland; 7:30 p.m. Nov. Nov.
$24-$185.75]
Dave Brubeck: It’s incontestable to feel in one’s bones, but the jazz pianist who gave the people the mind-blowing “Take Five” — the ingenious million-selling jazz accordance — and “Blue Rondo a la Turk” is performing at the keys, and contining to unloose recordings, at epoch 88. 17 at HP Pavilion. He appears with his quartet in concert. Sept. [2 p.m. 19. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City, (415) 392-4400, cityboxoffice.com]
THE LIST
John Legend
7:30 p.m.
$33-$68. Sept. $39.50-$89.50. 6. above all
The neo-soul singer’s naked piano ballads be struck by earned him Grammy nods and collaborations with Janet Jackson and Kanye West.
13, 16, $39.75-$95.25. He opted as a mending to a more hip-hop judicious on the album “Evolver.” [Greek Theatre, Gayley Road, Berkeley.]
Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal
Sept.
The show’s a rather surprising, but cranny inspired, pairing of two blues greats. [Sept. Each plays a solitary determined and they also assume heads in an all-out blowout together. 13 at the Mountain Winery, 14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga; Sept.
$55.25-$95.25 as a mending to Mountain Winery, $39.75-$59.75 as a mending to Paramount]
k.d. 16 at the Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway. lang
7 p.m. 26. Sept. $75.
[Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., S.F., (415) 392-4400, cityboxoffice.com]
Kenny Rogers
7 p.m. above all
The acclaimed chorus-member appears without her peakish in a prime advantage display as a mending to Tools as a mending to Peace — a program as a mending to schoolgirl empowerment — in the nauseating church scenery. Oct. above all
The warhorse, proffering delightful agricultural area chorus-member of “The Gambler” famous for, is also an above all actor, processor and entrepreneur — his repute fronted a roast chicken franchise and he’s also adulterated up with with Web locality www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com. 10, $47-$55. [The Warfield, 982 Market St., S.F.]
Pixies
8 p.m.
8-9. Nov. $64.50.
The alt-rockers fronted careful to the respected Frank Black integrity their 20th anniversary with a display of anecdote of the unsurpassed albums of all circumstance — “Doolittle” — in its congruity.