A fire Tuesday night at a Further Lane, Amagansett, house owned by the art dealer Larry Gagosian left a kitchen, media room, and upstairs bedroom badly damaged, according to Amagansett Fire Department officials, but did not spread to the rest of the house.

    The iconic 11,000-square-foot house was designed by the late Charles Gwathmey of the architectural firm Gwathmey Siegel for Francois de Menil, an heir to the Schlumberger oil-equipment fortune.

    “The fire supposedly started with a guy soldering pipes,” said Mark Bennett, the Amagansett fire chief. According to Chief Bennett, approximately 50 firemen, including a rapid intervention team from East Hampton, and a tanker from Springs, responded to the 8:48 p.m. call. In addition, Springs firemen were on deck at the Amagansett firehouse in case more help was needed.

    Dwayne Denton, an assistant Amagansett chief in charge of the interior firefighters and Chief Bennett’s second in command, said it took 20 to 30 minutes to bring the fire under control. “Not an easy fire, not that there really is such a thing as an easy fire. There’s a long driveway and we had to remove a drop ceiling to get to the flames.”

    “The problem was finding the fire,” said Chief Bennett. “It started in a wall and made its way up to the space between the first and second floors.” Firemen had to attack the flames from both floors by cutting their way through the ceiling and floor. Chief Bennett said that access to the house was difficult because of “artwork on each side of the driveway” near Further Lane.

    The house, known as Toad Hall, was designed by Mr. Gwathmey in 1978 and completed in 1982. According to a 1988 New York Times article, it “made architectural news as a house that summarized the career of a distinguished firm, and [. . .] helped mark a turn in modernism, when its hard-edged simplicity and formalism relaxed.”

    Mr. de Menil sold the house in 1988 to Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Mr. Gagosian bought it in 1990. The residence features a three-story greenhouse.

    Mr. Gagosian represents such artists as Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Julian Schnabel, and John Currin. A call to his New York gallery seeking comment was deferred to Mr. Gagosian’s press agent who had not responded as of late Wednesday afternoon.

    While firemen reported that the estate’s caretaker was at the house during the fire and had removed some artworks from the rooms that were affected, this information could not be confirmed by press time.

    Chief Denton said he was not sure whether any of Mr. Gagosian’s art collection had been damaged by the fire, although he noted that the house sustained water damage, particularly in a basement media room, as a result of his men having successfully extinguished the fire.

    Chief Bennett praised the firefighters’ work. “The guys did a really good job. The fire was contained to three rooms.” Nevertheless, the house is not habitable because the electricity has been turned off, he said.

    “We covered the electronics and a flat-screen TV with tarps. We knew there was an art collection inside. I can’t tell you exactly what happened to it — there was extensive smoke through the house. I was thinking about the fire and my men.”

    Sharks and pirates usually conjure up images of the open seas — unless you’re in the Hamptons real estate business.

    Only a few weeks ago, the high-end real estate firm Saunders and Associates, with offices in Bridgehampton and Southampton, dealt with allegations that it had pirated the Internet domain name susanbreitenbach.com and used it to drive Web-browsing house-hunters to the Saunders Web site. Ms. Breitenbach is a top-producing broker for the Corcoran Group, a competing firm.

    Now, another competing firm, Prudential Douglas Elliman, filed suit on June 14 against Saunders and Associates, along with Andrew Saunders, the founder, and Saunders Ventures, accusing them of having “illegally registered various Internet domain names associated with plaintiff so that any customers searching for such brokers online are automatically directed to defendants’ Web sites, rather than plaintiff’s Web site.”

    The complaint further states that the Saunders company “engaged in this deliberate scam in order to grow their fledgling business by deceiving the public and slyly and stealthily diverting clients away from” the competition. It accused the defendants of “at best” trying to “trade on the good will generated by the hard work and customer satisfaction” of Prudential Douglas Elliman by “manipulating unsuspecting clients and potential clients,” and said, “At worst, defendants set in motion a large-scale fraud enabled by modern technology that usurps and converts the business opportunities of others, in connection with which they have been unjustly enriched.”

    Douglas Elliman, the New York City firm that conducts business on the East End under the name of Prudential Douglas Elliman, identifies two brokers in the claim who allegedly had their names used by Saunders: Lori Barbaria, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s top salesperson for 2009 and its eighth-ranked broker nationwide, and Mi­chaela Keszler, an agent who works from the firm’s Southampton office, who, according to the complaint, was in the top 10 percent of gross commission income for the company’s eastern Long Island branch.

    When Andrew Saunders founded his company in 2008, it quickly became known for its top-drawer properties, and its offices, which its Web site describes as being an “experiential setting more reminiscent of a new luxurious hotel lobby than a typical real estate office.” Saunders recently opened a second office in Southampton, joining its flagship headquarters in Bridgehampton.

    Mr. Saunders said that his company uses a very aggressive Web strategy, which has included paying over $30,000 for the Saunders.com name and $100,000 for the jackpot — hamptons realestate. com.

    When the Breitenbach situation came to light, Mr. Saunders immediately returned the name to Ms. Breitenbach. It had been snatched up by the Saunders company when it became available, for only $12.17.

    Mr. Saunders has admitted in news stories that those involved in the technology and marketing cog of the Saunders machine have registered over 3,000 domain names, including, he claims, almost every street and town name in the Hamptons.

    “I hope this isn’t indicative of a ‘higher form of realty,’ ” Paul Brennan, the regional manager of Prudential Douglas Elliman, said Tuesday, referring to the Saunders motto “A higher form of realty.”

    When reached for comment, Mr. Saunders said in an e-mail, “It is regrettable that our competitor would resort to suing us without fully investigating the facts. We will expose those facts and prevail in this matter.”

    The complaint states that the plaintiff is seeking damages, but for now, said Stanley Arkin of Arkin Kaplan Rice, the law firm representing Prudential Doug­las Elliman, “All we hope for is a sensible reply.”

    “We’re most concerned about making sure that this kind of conduct doesn’t happen again,” he said.

    There is big money in the art of registering domain names that may end up in high demand, and this is not the first time that lawyers have been involved. During the summer of 2001, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) launched a suit against Michael Doughney, who had registered the peta.org Web address and used it to direct traffic to his fictional group, People Eating Tasty Animals. In that case, the plaintiff prevailed.

On Friday the East Hampton Town police dive team recovered a human skull in 8 to 10 feet of water about 40 yards from shore near Big Albert’s Landing beach in Amagansett.

The divers were conducting an underwater search in connection with the May 22 discovery of a headless body that had washed up on the beach. The skull is now in the possession of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner in Hauppauge, along with the body.

Town Police Chief Ed Ecker has said that three men top his list of leads as to the person’s identity: two men lost off Point Judith, R.I., and Ward Wickens, a commercial fisherman who fell overboard near Nova Scotia on May 3.

With the New York State Senate expected to vote on a same-sex marriage bill this week, Kenneth P. LaValle, who represents eastern Long Island, remains opposed to the measure in any form.

Mr. LaValle's spokesman, Drew Biondo, said Tuesday that the Senator would cast a vote against the bill if it came up. According to Mr. Biondo, the senator favors civil unions and is opposed on philosophical grounds to lifting the state ban on gay marriages.

Mr. LaValle, a Republican who has won re-election numerous times with Conservative and Independence endorsement, was not likely to support a bill even if it provided exemptions for adoption agencies and religious organizations opposed to gay marriage, Mr. Biondo said. Some legislators have suggested that exemptions be included to protect institutions and the Catholic Church from discrimination lawsuits.

Advocates of a bill that would allow gender-blind weddings say passage is likely. According to the Albany Times Union, all but one of the State Senate Democrats support the concept, though the specific language of the measure has not been released. For a bill to be approved, it would need at least two Republican votes, a threshold Mr. Biondo thought would be passed this week.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is a strong backer of the movement toward allowing same-sex marriage, and his signature on a bill that emerges from the State Legislature is all but assured. Five states give same-sex couples the right to marry -- Connecticut, New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Gay couples can also get marriage licenses in the District of Columbia.

A same-sex marriage bill failed in the Senate in 2009, 38-24; a companion bill has been approved in the Assembly three times.

    At a work session on Tuesday night, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals reached a compromise with a family that wanted to keep a deck and pergola, and came to a tied vote over a Montauk application to build near wetlands.

    Robert Schroder and his wife, Tracy Stock, of Sylvie Lane, East Hampton, had requested variances for a small shed and a deck that Mr. Schroder had built to accommodate their disabled adult son, Chris Stock.

    At a Z.B.A. hearing on May 24, Mr. Schroder said that he had constructed the deck with a friend, added a pergola for shade, and built a shed, all without building permits. He chose the deck’s location so that Ms. Stock could see her son from the kitchen and easily assist him if needed. Vic Dassa, a neighbor, objected to the height of the pergola, and its close proximity to his property.

    While the board discussed the fact that the 14-foot variance they requested is substantial, they agreed that there were extenuating circumstances that made for a compelling argument in favor of it. Don Cirillo, the board’s vice chairman, said that normally he would say no to anyone who built something without bothering to get a permit, “but he did what he felt was best for his son.”

    The board’s attorney, Carl Irace, said that if the board wanted to grant the application for the deck variance, it could include a covenant allowing the deck to remain as long as the hardship exists. Also, a specific condition could be added to the covenant stating that the structure would have to be removed if the family were to move or sell the house, or circumstances changed with Mr. Stock. Alex Walter reminded his fellow board members that Ms. Stock had already offered such a compromise.

    The board agreed to include that convenant in its approval, and voted unanimously to grant the variance for the deck on condition that the pergola be removed.

    Removing the pergola over the deck would give Mr. Dassa an unobstructed view. “Take off the top, they can use a removable umbrella,” suggested Mr. Cirillo.

    The variance request for the shed was denied, and the board determined that it will have to be lowered to conform to town code. The decision will be formalized in the coming weeks.

    Also that night, the board reached a split vote on Robert E. Gosman’s application for a natural resources permit and five variances to build a house on Fairview Avenue in Montauk. A hearing on that application was also held on May 24.

    The Town Planning Department recommended that the application be denied due to concerns about wetlands on the one-acre lot. The property is in a water recharge district.

    In 2006, the zoning board approved an application for a 1,400-square-foot house on the property, granting a special permit and five variances. Since then, however, the applicant’s plans have changed and this time, he proposed a 2,570-square-foot house.  

    “The next largest house in the area was 2,200 square feet, and had a much larger setback,” said Lee White, a board member. While the applicant may want to build a larger house, they can still do so by adding only 600 square feet, board members said.

    The house proposed is closer to the wetlands and larger than the one approved by the Z.B.A. in 2006. “So much on this lot is constrained. They have pushed the building envelope to the max,” said Sharon McCobb, another board member.

    “I do not think it is a justification to turn it down [based on] the size of the house. You want to get the biggest bang for the buck as possible,” Mr. Cirillo said, in favor of the house.

    “The house is still within the same setbacks as the original project and should not effect wetlands,” said Phil Gamble, the board’s chairman.

    The board reached a 2-2 vote, as Mr. Walter refrained from voting on this application.

    Mr. Irace will check on whether a tie-breaking vote is required in order to come to a final decision on the Gosman application.

    On Friday, the village zoning board of appeals discussed the East Hampton Library’s expansion for the first time since the State Supreme Court overruled the board’s 2010 denial of a special permit and variances for the library’s proposed children’s wing.

    The court called the Z.B.A.’s attempts to block the expansion “arbitrary” and “irrational,” and gave the library permission to construct the addition “subject only to such reasonable conditions that the [. . .] Z.B.A. may impose.”

    It was that line that particularly interested board members, who wanted to know if they could impose stricter parking conditions or perhaps limit the use of the meeting rooms, which would seat 25 and 65, so that they could not be used at the same time.

     The board has until July 8 to hold a public meeting on the matter and another 30 days after that to finalize the conditions it will impose, but a resolution laying out those conditions should be ready by Friday, June 24.

    “It’s given that it is subject to site plan approval,” said Ms. Riley. “But you are approving two meeting rooms — not how they use them.”

    “Can we make them have to come back so they don’t make a storage room into another 45 seats?” asked Joan Denny, the board’s vice chairwoman.

    “Possibly,” answered Ms. Riley.

    If, in the future, the East Hampton Star property next door to the library is sold, the library has said it would agree to cut curbs and come up with a shared driveway.

    When reached for comment, Dennis Fabiszak, the library’s director, who attended the Z.B.A.’s meeting, said, “As far as I know, at the next meeting, they will have their final resolution about whatever reasonable accommodations they think we should make.”

    “We’ve always said we’re willing to do anything reasonable,” he added.    

    “The hearing has closed. The board has discussed it. Now we come in with a written resolution,” said Ms. Riley. “If there’s discussion, fine. If not, the board will vote on it.” Ms. Riley said yesterday that the conditions that will be imposed in the resolution would not come as a big shock to anyone involved.    “There will have to be design review board approval,” she said, which Mr. Fabiszak is anticipating at some point during this summer. And the resolution may also address “the question of future access easement, which is shown on the map.”

     The zoning board will also impose a limitation on the number of seats in the new, larger lecture room to 60 and specify that there be “no future expansion without further review,” Ms. Riley said.

    Also on Friday, the board discussed Ted Hartley and Dina Merrill’s request for wheelchair-accessible walkways at their oceanfront property on West Dune Lane, so that Ms. Merrill can continue to enjoy her house and its views. A complication, pointed out by Richard Whelan, the couple’s attorney, is that the property does not have a certificate of occupancy since it has been in the family for five generations and predates many of the existing codes.

    Andrew Goldstein, the board’s chairman, requested that Mr. Whelan consult dune and coastal erosion experts on the effect any changes would have on the dunes and vegetation, and adjourned the hearing until July 8.

    A draft list of local charities that could become beneficiaries of a donation from the MTK: Music to Know festival was discussed by the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday.

    In return for issuing a mass-gathering permit to organizers of the two-day concert, to be held at the East Hampton Airport on Aug. 13 and 14, town officials extracted a promise that a donation of $100,000 be made even before profits from the event are tallied.

    The deal, Supervisor Bill Wilkinson has said a number of times, is the kind of public-private partnership needed in the wake of a fiscal crisis that has prompted East Hampton Town to eliminate some grants that used to be made to nonprofit community groups.

    The proposed list of recipients submitted to the town board is still being reviewed, but board members agreed this week on several changes. A proposed $15,000 donation to the East Hampton Day Care and Learning Center will likely be increased to $20,000, and the East Hampton Food Pantry, which runs both an East Hampton and a satellite Amagansett site, was added to the list. (Donations of from $1,000 to $3,000 were proposed to the food pantries in Montauk, Springs, Sag Harbor, and Wainscott.)

    “I think this should be local, local, local — this is about East Hampton,” said Town Councilwoman Theresa Quigley.

    The draft list includes $20,000 for the Retreat, $12,000 to Project MOST, and $3,000 for East End Hospice. Other proposed donations include $5,000 to Katy’s Courage, a scholarship fund memorializing a Sag Harbor student, $2,000 to a fund for restoring the historic Amagansett Life Saving Station, and $5,000 for the Joseph J. Theinert Foundation, established in memory of a soldier from Shelter Island. The Child Development Center of the Hamptons, the Bay Street Theatre, the Montauk Playhouse, and the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons (a neighbor of the airport festival site) would all receive $1,000, according to the proposal. The list also sets aside $3,000 as a contingency for late additions.

    Three $1,000 gifts to the music programs at the Montauk, Sag Harbor, and East Hampton schools should be eliminated from the MTK list, the town board members agreed, as the school districts are funded by taxpayer dollars. For a similar reason, Ms. Quigley questioned whether the East Hampton Library, to which a $2,000 contribution had been proposed, should be included.

    Ms. Quigley also questioned whether Phoenix House, a nationwide substance-abuse treatment organization — which she said “has a budget of some $20 million” — should receive any of the money. Town Councilwoman Julia Prince and Councilman Dominick Stanzione disagreed. In East Hampton, Phoenix House not only has a residential treatment center but provides outpatient services to residents, and that program relies on a separate budget, Mr. Stanzione said. Ms. Prince pointed out that sentences handed down in town justice court often mandate treatment at Phoenix House. “We have an institutional relationship with them,” Mr. Stanzione said.

    Ms. Prince suggested adding a $500 grant to Music for Montauk, and removing $1,000 grants to the Children’s Museum of the East End and Wings Over Haiti, a group founded by a Sag Harbor resident to help victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

    Board members agreed that a donation to a fund for homeless veterans established by J.J. Kremm, a town employee, should be included. A donation to fund the town youth court and a contribution to Maureen’s Haven, an East End homeless assistance group, were also suggested. Margaret Turner, an audience member at the meeting, suggested a grant to Elsa’s Ark, an animal rescue group.

    Revisions to the list will be considered and finalized at a future board meeting. In addition to the $100,000 charitable donation, the MTK: Music to Know Festival is to pay $45,000 rent to the town for use of runway 4-22 at the airport.

    Even before the beach season got under way this year, a group dedicated to improving the safety of swimmers and assisting emergency workers to get to them when help is needed was making arrangements for the summer.

    Members of the Amagansett Beach Safety Advisory Committee, which was formed last year after a drowning at an unprotected beach in that hamlet, discussed their efforts at a recent East Hampton Town Board meeting. Councilman Dominick Stanzione has served as liaison to the group.

    The committee realized, said Vicki Littman, a founder and leader, that the safety strategies being discussed could be employed not only in Amagansett but also throughout the town.

    Soon to be seen flying from the flagpoles at the Montauk green and near the Amagansett fire station will be surf advisory flags: yellow or red, indicating rough or extremely hazardous surf conditions. In both cases, said John Ryan Jr., who leads the town’s lifeguard corps, “people should stay out of the water.”

    One goal is to standardize the names of various beach locations, assigning a number and location to each beach access in the town so that beachgoers will be able to identify where they are, and emergency responders can quickly pinpoint where to go.

    Mr. Ryan said he has compiled a list of 150 access points onto bay or ocean beaches in the town. A sign listing the numbered location will be posted at each of them, at both road end and walking path access points, and on the beach side.

    In addition, the chief marine patrol officer, Ed Michels, said, marine patrol trucks contain global positioning systems, allowing officers to communicate a location to the Coast Guard, should there be a need for a response by water.

    In downtown Montauk, where a half-mile stretch of narrow beaches remains unguarded, posts have been installed by the town’s Parks Department delineating an emergency vehicle access lane at the toe of the dunes, ensuring a clear path for those responding to calls for help. Each of those posts is numbered, so that anyone on the beach who calls for help will be able to provide their exact location.

    There has also been a change in the communications procedure followed when a 911 call comes in, East Hampton Town Police Chief Eddie Ecker said. Dispatchers who receive a water or beach emergency call will immediately contact not only the police and emergency medical services but also the town’s volunteer ocean rescue squad.

    Fund-raising by the committee, jump-started by a donation from Ms. Littman, enabled the town to buy an all-terrain vehicle that is kept at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett. The vehicle, Mr. Ryan said this week, will help lifeguards from that beach more quickly respond to emergencies on the unguarded stretches to the east, including the popular beach at Napeague Lane, as well as help them ferry E.M.S. personnel to and from an emergency scene and help lifeguards travel down the beach to alert swimmers to dangerous conditions.

    To increase public awareness, town lifeguards will be presenting water safety lectures at various locations throughout the summer, Mr. Ryan said, highlighting things such as how to recognize rip currents and what to do if caught in one.

    In addition to the junior lifeguard program, through which numerous youngsters learn swimming and ocean safety, Mr. Ryan said an adult, or “masters,” ocean training program may be offered, allowing adults to brush up on or learn those skills as well.

    At a town board session on Tuesday, the East Hampton Group for Wildlife offered to raise money and help the town secure grants to pay for a deer contraception program similar to one that, members said, has achieved a 79-percent reduction in the fawning rate among deer on Fire Island.

    Bill Crain of Montauk, the president of the group, and his wife, Ellen Crain, outlined a proposal for a pilot study through which 30 does would be vaccinated with a contraceptive made with a protein from purified pig ovaries, effective for three to four years, and 10 given a placebo. The does would be tagged so they could be monitored for four years to see if they give birth to fawns.

    Ms. Crain, a professor of pediatric and emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said research shows that hunting does not adequately control deer populations, and nationwide studies show that most Americans oppose hunting.

    She said she and Mr. Crain had found, in informal polling of people here, outside the post office, for instance, that a local majority is against hunting but most feel that something has to be done to control the number of deer.

    In introducing his wife to the East Hampton Town Board, Mr. Crain pointed out that she has been awarded $4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and won an Environmental Protection Agency award for establishing the nation’s first program in environmental pediatrics.

    The contraceptive vaccine that could be used on the deer has proved to be safe and “not harmful to humans or to animals that eat deer,” Ms. Crain said, and it is used by the United States government to control herds of wild horses in the West. It would be provided for free by its developer, a veterinarian who would also offer his services to oversee an East Hampton pilot study. Dr. Jonathan Turetsky, an East Hampton vet, has offered to oversee care of the deer, Ms. Crain said. The program would have no cost to the town.

    Because a vaccination program is “stressful” to deer, Ms. Crain said, the group would “expect to have no expansion of hunting during the study period.”

    The best time of year to begin a vaccination program is the late fall, she said. The town would need to obtain approval from the State Department of Environmental Conservation — which, Ms. Crain warned, has not generally supported deer contraception programs.

    Whatever steps the board decides to take, she cautioned, should be based on solid data.

    The wildlife group also suggested several “no-cost activities” that the town could implement immediately to address conflicts between deer and humans here.

    A campaign for slower driving could reduce the number of accidents and injuries resulting from collisions with deer on the roads, Ms. Crain said. An East Hampton Group for Wildlife project, whereby reflectors designed to deter deer from crossing the road, has been installed along some stretches, has “dramatically reduced” accidents in those areas and will be expanded thanks to the town board’s permission, she said.

    Ms. Crain also suggested that the town designate some of its nature preserves as sanctuaries where deer would not be hunted. “Deer are not dumb,” she said, suggesting that they would find their way to and remain in areas where they are safe. “This might help to keep the deer off the road and out of people’s landscaping,” she said.

    Councilman Dominick Stanzione has been working to address deer-related issues, including the proliferation of deer fencing throughout the town, and has met recently with the East Hampton Group for Wildlife to develop a comprehensive approach. He thanked the Crains for their presentation. “I applaud you for making these recommendations,” he said.

    The Federal Aviation Administration cleared the way for the MTK: Music to Know festival to be held at East Hampton Airport in August, notifying town officials on Tuesday that they approved of plans for the event.

    The East Hampton Town Board had issued a permit for use of a portion of Runway 4-22, which is closed, but the festival could not have taken place there without the F.A.A.’s okay.

    The federal agency’s approval will allow organizers to abandon plans to have the two-day event in Amagansett. Residents concerned about traffic and crowds in that hamlet protested and filed a lawsuit after the town board issued a permit for that proposal in December.

    The lineup of 18 bands slated to perform at the Aug. 13 and 14 event was anounced Monday in a kickoff event at Townline BBQ in Sagaponack.

    Vampire Weekend will be the Saturday night headliner. Chris Jones, a founder and organizer of the show, with his partner, Bill Collage, said Vampire Weekend is “probably the brightest and best new band emerging.” Its performance here, he said, will be one of few upcoming appearances in the United States. The band had reportedly turned down gigs at Lollapalooza, as well as the Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom.

    The main event on Sunday night will be a performance by Bright Eyes, a group from Nebraska that will head to the East End just a week after opening for Cold Play at the Lollapalooza festival. Bright Eyes has sold out two Radio City Music Hall shows.

    A number of the bands booked for the festival will be familiar to those who follow the festival circuit or keep tabs on up-and-coming indie music.

    “We wanted to get the most critically acclaimed, coolest thing going,” said Mr. Collage on Monday night. “We hope that in 10 years, people will say, ‘Those are the bands that define this era.’ ”

    “Part of the fun of this was . . . when you write up your list, there are guys who you really want,” he said. “You pursue, and you pursue, and sometimes you get a little irrational in your pursuit.” The Limousines, for him, was one such band.Of Francis and the Lights, a New York City-based band that will also perform, he said, “We wanted to be the one who really blew them up, but they blew up before us.” Mr. Jones described them as “Peter Gabriel meets Depeche Mode.” Ra Ra Riot, an indie rock band with a string section that is part of the Brooklyn music scene, is “one of the ones we’re most excited about,” Mr. Collage said.

    The Tom Tom Club, originally established as a side project by members of the Talking Heads, will provide some “heritage hipness,” according to concert press materials — “a tip of the hat to what was going on 30 years ago,” Mr. Collage said Monday. “What we want to do is tell a story line, from the birth of indie rock 30 years ago . . . and the rediscovery . . . to bringing them out here.”

    Also performing will be Matt & Kim; Dawes, a roots-rock band, the Naked and Famous, an indie electronic band from New Zealand; Nicos Gun and Fitz and the Tantrums, both of which have played at the South by Southwest festival; Cold War Kids; Chromeo; M. Ward, who will also appear at the Newport Folk Festival; We Are Scientists; Young Empires; and Tame Impala, with music described as “psychedelic, hypno-groove melodic rock.” Expected to play, but still unsigned, are a Canadian band called the Young Empires, and Montauk’s own Suddyn.

    “You’re probably looking at the two most elated people in the room here,” said Mr. Jones, as he and Mr. Collage prepared to list the bands for the crowd gathered for the announcement on Monday night. “We’re absolutely thrilled.” Also to be featured at the festival are “Fashion and Lifestyle to Know,” with retailers on site, and “Eats to Know,” with samplings from gourmet food trucks from around the United States.    

    Tickets went on sale through the festival’s Web site on Monday night shortly after the announcement. A total of 9,500 will be sold. Local residents can purchase discounted tickets ($175) at 668 the Gig Shack in Montauk, Sylvester & Co. in Sag Harbor, Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett, and Khanh’s Sports in East Hampton. General admission tickets are $195, plus tax and a $6 service charge. East Hampton residents may also purchase V.I.P. tickets at a base price of $695 each that will provide access to two V.I.P. food and drink tents, as well as to two viewing areas with special fashion shows and musical performances, air-conditioned restrooms, and free parking. Admission for children under 6 is free.

    Additional fees for parking, either on site or off, with shuttle service provided, will range from $30 to $80 for the weekend. All tickets will provide access to the grounds on both days of the festival, with events from noon to 10 p.m. each day.

    No tickets will be sold on site.

    A list of local charities that will share a $100,000 donation from the MTK festival was also announced this week. They are Phoenix House, the Retreat, East End Hospice’s Camp Good Grief, the Surfrider Foundation, the East Hampton Library, the Living Water Food Pantry, and the Katy’s Courage scholarship for students at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor.