The headliner's are an awful shame and there is a lot of re-used acts found on this line-up despite Flying Lotus, Guided By Voices, Archers of Loaf, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Beach House, Deerhunter, Yeasayer, and Death from Above '79.
A bunch of great and a bunch of blah.
Not much of an elaborate model for your 10 year anniversary, but a good basis that needs additional work.
Coachella wins Round 1 in America so far.
Sasquatch! Festival takes place over the Memorial Day long weekend at the Gorge in Washington state and has been home to many incredible acts like the Beastie Boys, Pixies, Björk, the Flaming Lips, Manu Chao, R.E.M., Explosions in the Sky, Beck, Blackalicious, and Nine Inch Nails since it's small beginning in 2002.
This year the festival added the likes of Pavement, Massive Attack and Ween to it's history of star acts and not one of the groups disappointed their headlining duties. Luckily for you greenT was there dancing and singing through the sun, rain, booze and unprescribed goodies that make this particular festival a communal entity of fun rather than a place where the audience is too busy acting too cool to fucking dance (coughLOLLAPALOOZA///PITCHFORKcough).
Here's a breakdown of our day-by-day activities and bands that blew our minds and knees out.. and those that were less than spectacular:
DAY ONE:
Our day opened early with Brother Ali ("Blah Blah Blah" live at Sasquatch) performing on the main stage at 1:05 and although a couple of us had seen him down in Cali for Coachella a few years back, 
After setting the day on a high note, we wandered over to check out London's Mumford & Sons ("Little Lion Man" live at Sasquatch) and Arkansa's Portugal. The Man. Both acts were great but failed to live up to Brother Ali's uplifting performance as we scorched in the hot sun.. so.. moving on.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros ("Home" live at Sasquatch) were up on the Big Foot stage next and the crowd. went. crazy. Despite a short set, the band of gypsies put on a fun show and set the crowd ablaze during their much anticipated "Home":
Sorry for the terrible filming.. twas the first video of the festival!
Next up was Broken Social Scene ("World Sick" live at Sasquatch) on the main stage and they had a great set including about half of Forgiveness Rock Record and half from their previous two. The collective was definitely a highlight of the festival.
After a slight walk through the Miike Snow crowd it came time to decide between Why?, the National, the Very Best, and the Hold Steady. Why? has been a long time favourite here and the Hold Steady has been seen before so the plan was to watch Why?, leave a bit early, then catch the end of the National set.. but all things came to a halt when Why? ("The Hollows" live in NC and Sasquatch) compeletely blew everyone out of the water. Their set was full of all the bangers that I wanted to hear and I have never seen stage presence like that of lead singer Yoni Wolf before. I was literally laughing to tears at his Rosie Perez dance from Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.
Why? - The Vowels, pt. 2:
We were so blown away with Why? that the two songs that we did hear from the National felt drab and boring.. something I feel all to familiar with at times listening to the National.
Luckily Vampire Weekend ("A-Punk" live at Sasquatch) were coming on soon and they kept the energy levels high as the entire ampitheatre erupted into dance throughout their whole set.
The sun had set at some point during Vampire Weekend's fun-as-hell set and we all looked at each other with fire in our eyes.. Not to be let down by more downer rock, the greenT crew skipped My Morning Jacket and set off to watch a great set by Z-Trip (live at Sasquatch) where we danced until there was no more moisture to sweat out of our bodies.. and closing down Saturday night was the incredibly needed live visuals of Toronto's Deadmau5 ("Sometimes Things Get, Whatever" live at Sasquatch). Can't say that the tunes matched the lights but I'll have to check out more of his stuff to decide.. and who cares when you're having fun?
..and that was how our day one looked.
There is a music festival called Sasquatch Music Festival that takes place annually at the Gorge in Washington and tonight is the line-up announcement party that features Atlas Sound, Surfer Blood (who will most likely be playing the festival themselves), and some other musical guests.
With technology and the ideas within it becoming more and more fucking wicked every day we are watching the show live and streaming through the crazy world of blogs/twitter. Atlas Sound's set is just finishing up, with Surfer Blood to follow, and we will list the acts that get named as their names are named. greenT will be attending the 2010 festival and we are going to cover great bands under the control of dancing, alcohol, drugs and lovable chaos as it occurs at the bitter end of May.. but for now, enjoy the rest of the show RIGHT HERE and here are the artists (so far) at 2010 Saquatch Music Festival:
Although the line-up looks like it was compiled in 2007 ..hrmmm.. there are a bunch of great acts (ie. Ween, Pavement, Why?, No Age, Massive Attack, Simian Mobile Disco, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, the Mountain Goats etc.) and crowd pleasers like the National, My Morning Jacket, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, the xx.. but generally the line-up consists of a ton of bands that everyone has seen years ago... (fuck Kid Cudi/Wale and get Freddie Gibbs/Jay Electronica!)
Guess that booze and those unprescribed sweet nothings might come in extra handy that weekend.
