Apple has announced a special media event to take place on September 9, 2009. The invitation indicates that it will be iPod-related (just like in previous years) and will take place in San Francisco.

The event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10am Pacific Time.

The invitation, pictured above, features a classic iPod ad silhouette and reads "It's only rock and roll, but we like it." There's no indication that any sort of non-iPod product will be involved in this year's event, so that doesn't exactly surprise me. Some expect an Apple tablet to be announced that day (which I admit could be a possibility), but such a thing seems very unlikely.