Sasquatch hoooo

The Line Up (So Far):Jane's Addiction (feat. all four original members), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective, Silversun Pickups, Bon Iver, Santigold, Of Montreal, Explosions In The Sky, Devotchka, Peter Bjorn & John, Gogol Bordello, M. Ward, The Avett Brothers, Doves, Calexico, Grizzly Bear, M83, Girl Talk, The Gaslight Anthem, The Walkmen, Chromeo (dj set), Deadmau5, Mugison, Sun Kil Moon, Airborne Toxic Event, Blitzen Trapper, Shearwater, BLK JKS, The Wrens, Tobacco, Monotonix, King Khan & The Shrines, St. Vincent, Passion Pit, John Vanderslice, Bishop Allen, Blind Pilot, AA Bondy, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, The Dodos, Beach House, Arthur & Yu, The Submarines, Owl City, Viva Voce, James Pants, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, The Builders & The Butchers, The Dutchess & The Duke, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele, Fences, School of Seven Bells, Death Vessel, Horse Feathers, Hockey, Point Juncture, WA, The Pica Beats, Loch Lomond, Vince Mira & more to come.

Who I'm actually excited to see:
Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Erykah Badu: Four acts I don't absolutely adore but in the festival setting will no doubt be pretty incredible.

M. Ward, Animal Collective, Gogol Bordello, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Shearwater, Beach House, John Vanderslice, TV on the Radio, Blitzen Trapper: A bunch of acts I've been dying to see for years but have never got the chance. I've heard that Animal Collectives live sets are a sight to behold.


The Walkmen, The Dutchess and the Duke, Girl Talk, Monotonix: Old favorites who have never disappointed live.

Explosions in the Sky and King Khan and the Shrines: These are the two I am easily most excited about. Neither of which I've seen live, but whose music just seems so incredibly conducive to the live open air setting.

Chromeo: Only if I'm trashed enough and this is a 3 a.m. dance tent event...

Zack Galifinakis, Demitri Martin, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job: Comedic Genius

Someone I'm not excited at all to see...AGAIN: Ben Harper, why in the hell is he continually booked at these things.

Song of the Day: David Bazan - Cold Beer and Cigarettes

Bazan has an eerie and endearing voice that resonates through all of his painfully honest music. This is my favorite song from the "Fewer Moving Part's EP" which was released on Barsuk Records, what seems like 2 years ago now. Oh yeah...did I mention he's playing in my living room on Feb. 28? Check out a great performance of this song on the Seattle installment of the Burn to Shine series. This You Tube video is sort of annoying, as apparently everyone in the audience is 12, and giggles continuously after the "Trying to focus his high hopes on a vagina or two" line in the song.

Song of the Day: The Flying Burrito Brothers - Lazy Day

This is the kind of music I've been really into the last few months. Country music of the 60's and 70's that took the formula presented to them by their forefathers and reinvented it with the psychedelic, jammy, bluesy and straight up rock of a new era of music. It really is just music that makes you smile and and want to stomp your feet and clap your hands. It's all a product of the resounding genius of the legendary Gram Parsons (although he isn't in this clip, even though he wrote the song and originally sang it), who along with the Flying Burrito Brothers was also a member of The Byrds, and had a pretty kick ass solo career. Long live the country rock of the 60's and 70's, cause god knows its better than anything that gets passed off as country music today. See also: The Allman Brothers Band, The Band, James Gang and Townes Van Zandt, and more recently Seattle's own The Moondoggies.

Song of the Day: Blitzen Trapper - Furr

This song completely made the album for me. This is exactly the direction I loved to see the band venture further into after the already amazing "Wild Mountain Nation." It really has the makings of a classic, one of Portland's finest.

Song of the Day: Murder City Devils - Rum to Whiskey

Spencer Moody was far to drunk, drinking his own bottle of whiskey on stage, to sing virtually ANY of the verses to this song at the reunion show at the Showbox last night (Let alone the right words to a number of songs.) He pretty much just jumped right to the chorus and repeated it over and over...I'm not going to try to complain though, the audience (including myself) ate it up. After listening to the band since my junior year of high school, I'm pretty damn ecstatic to have finally seen the crew live, they tore the house down, and I without a doubt will be first in line to get a ticket the NEXT time they decide to reunite. One of Seattle's best contributions to the realm of music, period.

Song of the Day: The Walkmen - Four Provinces

The Walkmen truly are, without a doubt, my favorite band. Their music is a sparse, depressing, multi-layered menagerie of drunken hopefulness. This video seems to convey that quite well. Pretty pumped that they are heavily rumored for Sasquatch this year, because seeing them live is an incredible treat.

Song of the Day: Leonard Cohen - Diamonds in the Mine

Forgot how awesome this song was until I stumbled upon it on one of my mix cd's while driving to Seattle today.