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My Schedule
1:55 PM
to 2:40 PM
Mumford & Sons
1879 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Since they formed in December 2007, the members of Mumford & Sons have shared a common purpose: to make music that matters, without taking themselves too seriously. Four young men from West London in their early twenties, they have fire in their bellies, romance in their hearts, and rapture in their masterful, melancholy voices.
event::tags 281
Website http://www.mumfordandsons.com/
2:15 PM
to 3:00 PM
Minus The Bear
1713 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about For the past seven years, Seattle's Minus the Bear have orbited the music world like a distant meteor, fine-tuning their unique brand of indie rock and discovering how technology can help enhance the band's unique pop vision - all of which culminated with the full-length Planet of Ice , an album showing the band not so much transforming their sound as transcending it.
event::tags 349
Website http://www.minusthebear.com/
3:30 PM
to 4:15 PM
The Middle East
567 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about The members of The Middle East hail from Townsville, Australia, a town situated in the far north of the country and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. It is here that the band created and recorded the five songs that make up the Recordings Of The Middle East.
event::tags 354
5:35 PM
to 6:35 PM
Broken Social Scene
2704 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about As a core six-piece who had spent most of 2007 and 2008 on the road, Drew, Canning, Spearin, Whiteman, Goldberg and Peroff spent early 2009 working on new material in Toronto. The pairing down of the band's massive personnel list for the first time proved extremely fruitful; they created spacious songs written as a band by a band, resulting in more cohesive, melody-driven compositions than previous BSS output.
event::tags 321
Website http://www.brokensocialscene.ca/
6:20 PM
to 7:05 PM
Miike Snow
2021 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Up to this point Miike Snow has remained pretty mysterious, proving nearly impossible to find any information about, photographic or otherwise. Man? DJ? Robot? Miike Snow is a band. Swedish duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg are childhood friends who spent time playing in bands and working on various projects in studios throughout Gothenburg.
event::tags 348
Website http://www.myspace.com/miikesnow
12:05 PM
to 12:55 PM
Caribou
1818 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about From its humble beginnings with the theft of a sampler gathering dust in his high school's music department, through four acclaimed albums and an absurd collision with a litigious wrestler, Dan Snaith's (aka Caribou) musical life has followed anything but a predictable trajectory.
event::tags 324
Website http://www.caribou.fm/
2:05 PM
to 2:50 PM
Jets Overhead
367 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about Jets Overhead lives on a massive island that is pigment green with sharp grey mountains moving slowly and peninsula fingers stretching out and snagging the sea. The people in the band are all different heights and all have very different tastes in music and very different ways of expressing emotion or thinking about art.
event::tags 338
Website http://www.jetsoverhead.com/
3:20 PM
to 4:05 PM
They Might Be Giants
1168 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about For alternative rock legends They Might Be Giants, rave reviews from the likes of Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Pitchfork, NPR and beyond might not be that unexpected, but we're not talking about their regular gig here. Sure, TMBG have sold millions of records, are multi-Grammy winners and have even composed a musical accompaniment for an entire issue of McSweeney's, but these most recent accolades are for the work TMBG has created for children and--as the reviews attest--no other band swings as effortlessly from adult music to children’s fare and back again with the artistic and commercial success of They Might Be Giants.
event::tags 373
7:00 PM
to 8:00 PM
LCD Soundsystem
2692 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about Founded in 2002 by downtown NYC music scene fixture and DFA label co-owner James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem has risen to international prominence as one of the most critically acclaimed live and recording acts currently in existence.
event::tags 341
Website http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/
8:30 PM
to 9:45 PM
Pavement
1731 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about Out of the spring break sunshine of Stockton California and on to the pinball rhythms of Brooklyn; taking you in by charm, choruses and their good looks Pavement made five masterpieces then split, having taught the globe how to dress, drink and laugh at themselves.
event::tags 292
Website http://www.crookedrain.com
2:20 PM
to 3:05 PM
Seattle Rock Orchestra
582 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about The Seattle Rock Orchestra is an all volunteer ensemble that collaborates with bands and artists to produce one-of-a-kind symphonic rock shows. Created in 2008 by bassist and orchestrator Scott Teske, what started as a 13 piece string ensemble has since grown into a full symphony orchestra, replete with strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion and choir. SRO recently presented a tribute to David Bowie at the Moore Theatre, and will be reprising their tribute to the Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' at Sasquatch 2010.
event::tags 379
4:10 PM
to 5:00 PM
Passion Pit
2694 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about What is this? Another lost LP from Brian Wilson's sandbox phase? If only things were that simple. What we're really alluding to here is Passion Pit's first proper full-length, Manners, a bird-flipping break from the blogosphere by a 21 year old with much more on his manic mind than girls, girls, girls. You know, important matters, like the end of the world and learning to love someone other than the man in the mirror.
event::tags 289
Website www.myspace.com/passionpitjams
8:05 PM
to 9:05 PM
MGMT
3096 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about With Congratulations, MGMT offer a heartfelt "Hear! Hear!" and an invitation to join the group in a new musical odyssey mirroring the psyches of the band's core duo, Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, inspired by their adventures on the frontiers of 21st century pop & roll consciousness.
event::tags 346
Website http://www.whoismgmt.com/
8:40 PM
to 9:25 PM
Neon Indian
1356 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype rumpus-room
event::about An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo, Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts.
event::tags 284
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