Showing posts with label sasquatch festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sasquatch festival. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Live Festival Music: Watch Bonnaroo's Final Day; Download Sasquatch Sets


Bonnaroo 2011 draws to a close today, but the good news is that you can watch live sets online from the final day (and night), with continuous music from different stages. From the other side of the U.S., There are also podcasts of live sets from Memorial Day weekend's Sasquatch festival that you can download from NPR Music (yeah, I'm a couple of weeks late to posting this, but there are plenty of good sets posted online, and they're still available).

First up, the live webcast schedule for today's Bonnaroo finale:
  • 4 - 4:30 p.m. ET - Bootsy Collins
  • 4:30 - 5:15 - Chiddy Bang
  • 5:15 - 6 - Galactic
  • 6 - 7:15 - Cold War Kids
  • 7:15 - 7:45 - Warren Haynes Band
  • 7:45 - 9:15 - The Strokes
  • 9:15 - 9:45 - Explosions in the Sky
  • 9:45 - 12:15 - Widespread Panic
About 40 live sets from Sasquatch 2011 are available for streaming (and many for download too, it seems). Among the ones I'll be checking out in this abundance of live music are the sets by:
  • Bob Mould
  • The Thermals
  • Death Cab for Cutie
  • Death from Above 1979
  • Guided by Voices
  • Foo Fighters
  • Basia Bulat
  • Flogging Molly
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Wye Oak
  • Deerhunter
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela
  • Rebecca Gates
  • Sharon Van Etten
  • The Head and the Heart 
Happy listening!

Monday, February 07, 2011

Sasquatch Lineup & Schedule Announced - Wilco, Modest Mouse, Foo Fighters, Death from Above 1979, Death Cab for Cutie, More


The Sasquatch Festival in Washington State has announced its lineup for 2011—and the proceedings will go on for four days this year. Foo Fighters had already been announced, but now then entire schedule is out (which bands are on which days, anyway; no set times appear on the website).

(Speaking of the Foo Fighters, they have a clever website, www.foofighters.fm, to promote their upcoming album: it recreates the look of an old-fashioned analog radio tuner with controls you can use to "tune in" different "stations" with song samples and at least one interview clip.)

Sasquatch 2011 will take place on Memorial Day weekend, from May 27th to 30th, at the Gorge Ampitheater in George, Washington, near the Columbia River.

Highlights include:
Friday, May 27th: Foo Fighters, Death from Above 1979, Against Me!, Rival Schools, Smith Westerns
Saturday, May 28th: Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Robyn, Wolf Parade
Sunday, May 29th: Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly, Cold War Kids, Ratatat, Yeasayer, Beach House, Tokyo Police Club, Sam Roberts Band, Basia Bulat
Monday, May 30th: Wilco, The Decemberists, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Old 97's, MSTRKRFT, Chromeo, Guided by Voices, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Deerhunter, Best Coast

See the full Sasquatch lineup here. Four-day all-inclusive Sasquatch tickets are on sale now; single-day tickets go on sale Feb. 14th. You can hear songs from various Sasquatch artists on the website. For the latest updates, see the Sasquatch Twitter feed.

Monday, February 15, 2010

2010 Sasquatch Festival Lineup Announced

The lineup for the 2010 Sasquatch Festival was announced at a free show at the Crocodile February 15th. The festival's home page is swamped by traffic and won't load as of 2 a.m. Eastern time, but here are some details I've been able to get from the Twitter account of the Ear Candy music blog (and a photo of the 2010 Sasquatch poster that Ear Candy posted):

My Morning Jacket / Massive Attack / Pavement / Ween / Vampire Weekend / MGMT / The National / Band of Horses / Broken Social Scene / The xx / The New Pornographers / LCD Soundsystem / Tegan & Sara / Broken Social Scene / Passion Pit / The Hold Steady / Dirty Projectors / OK Go / Drive By Truckers / Kid Cudi / Long Winters / Minus the Bear / The Mountain Goats / Camera Obscura / Dr. Dog

Brooklyn Vegan has a more complete 2010 Sasquatch lineup here, which may or may not be completely final and accurate. Paste has what it says is the full Sasquatch lineup on its Web site. Sasquatch will issue a press release Tuesday morning, Feb. 16th.

This year's festival takes place May 29th to 31st at The Gorge in Washington State. 2010 Sasquatch tickets go on sale at 12 Noon Eastern time.

The Sasquatch Festival home page, www.sasquatchfestival.com, shows only info for the 2009 festival at this point. Let's hope it's updated soon.