me::title_else
My Schedule
12:50 PM
to 1:35 PM
Laura Marling
694 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about At the tail-end of the Summer, just before work began on her second album, Laura Marling sat down with producer Ethan Johns to discuss her ambitions for the record. She gave Johns just two instructions: "This is very much my stepping stone," she told him. "And this is England."
event::tags 340
Website http://www.lauramarling.com/
1:20 PM
to 2:05 PM
Fool's Gold
628 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about Fool's Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies. The group started as a side project of two young LA musicians, vocalist/bassist Luke Top and lead guitarist Lewis Pesacov, who set out to explore their shared love of various forms of African music (specifically Congolese, Ethiopean, Eritrean and Malian), Krautrock, and 80s dance influenced pop music.
event::tags 332
Website http://www.myspace.com/foolsgold
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/
2:25 PM
to 3:10 PM
Nurses
516 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about To immerse yourself in Nurses' Apple's Acre is to delight in a certain mental unraveling. These are songs where the vulnerability of pop with its heart on its sleeve engages in a double-dutch jumprope match with the euphoric surrender-to-the-weird that is essential to psychedelia. And Nurses is a band that scavenges beauty and wonder, uncovering Technicolor where others see somber hues.
event::tags 287
Website http://www.myspace.com/nurses
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
4:05 PM
to 4:50 PM
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
2218 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Birthed by Mouth in the year two-thousand and five, young Edward Sharpe had to wait nearly two years before he was to grow his arms and legs and fingers and toes. Immaculately conceived, his father (a Robot who had magically become a real boy... but that's another story) declared his undying devotion to the creature. He perched the fleshy bust upon a teetering pedestal fashioned from stacked cereal boxes and positioned the display at his window for all the town to see. Young Edward soon proved no ordinary boy.
event::tags 331
5:40 PM
to 6:25 PM
The Lonely Forest
431 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about After establishing themselves in 2006 as a prime young band to watch as winners of the highly coveted EMP Sound Off! Competition, The Lonely Forest have spent the last few years experimenting with a variety of sounds, from pop-rock to piano-driven ballads about a fictional character in the future.
event::tags 301
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
7:00 PM
to 8:00 PM
The National
2306 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about The National are a band of New Yorkers transplanted from Cincinnati, Ohio: Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf. What each member of the band does is not that important, but what they do together seems increasingly more so...
event::tags 303
Website http://www.americanmary.com/
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Nada Surf
1328 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Nada Surf bring their trademark sense of harmony and musical craftsmanship to 12 of their favorite songs with their latest release, if i had a hi-fi, their first album of covers. Only a group with their wide-ranging and eclectic taste could bring songs from such artists as Kate Bush, Dwight Twilley and the Go-Betweens together into a coherent, intelligent record.
event::tags 283
Website http://www.nadasurf.com
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Z-Trip
520 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype rumpus-room
event::about Z-Trip is considered to be one of the best live performance DJs in history, by both fans and peers. It's a fact that many call him the godfather of mash-ups, as he is one of the originators of the genre.
event::tags 315
Website http://www.djztrip.com/
11:30 PM
to 11:55 PM
Deadmau5
2375 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot-late
event::about Joel Zimmerman doesn't like being called a DJ. The 28-year-old dance music phenomenon from Toronto, better known as Deadmau5, rolls his eyes at the description, which he sees as a hopelessly outdated way of describing what he does.
event::tags 360
Website http://www.deadmau5.com
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/
1:30 PM
to 2:15 PM
Local Natives
1725 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Local Natives make soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, dreamy orchestral melodies, and throbbing tribal beats that bash their way into your soul. Theirs are songs you can dance to almost as well as you can swoon to them. Drawing a line from the vocal stylings of Crosby Stills Nash & Young and the Zombies through the more esoteric edges of post-punk and Afro-beat, this California five piece have communally crafted a brand of indie rock all their own.
event::tags 342
Website http://www.thelocalnatives.com/
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/
2:35 PM
to 3:20 PM
The Tallest Man On Earth
1665 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about When fans lined up to see the sold-out Bon Iver performances at New York City's Town Hall in late 2008, few of them went with any expectations of the opening act. But the audience that night, and on every other night of Bon Iver's tour that December, were introduced to something special, something unforgettable: The Tallest Man on Earth. This was the first of several tours for the Tallest Man on Earth (aka Kristian Matsson), with obsessive crowds growing each step of the way.
event::tags 298
3:10 PM
to 3:55 PM
tUnE-yArDs
412 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about tUnE-yArDs is the singular musical project of New England native Merrill Garbus. Possessing an expansive sound that marries a coarse folk ingenuity with the bold pop sensibility of an R&B siren, BiRd-BrAiNs was assembled with a staunch DIY aesthetic.
event::tags 307
Website http://tune-yards.com/
3:40 PM
to 4:25 PM
Cymbals Eat Guitars
888 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about The sweat's the first thing everyone notices. It's hard not to, as salty trails drip from the pores of Joseph D'Agostino, the yelping, riff-raking frontman of Cymbals Eat Guitars. Here's why he can't seem to stay dry: Pitchfork's "Best New Music" tag - plastered across a rave review of Cymbals' self-released debut, Why There Are Mountains, six months before its official release - was just the beginning of the band's rise to notoriety.
event::tags 326
4:25 PM
to 5:10 PM
Kid Cudi
2162 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about Having repeatedly promised a unique, adventurous and experimental work while his singles achieved months of rare all-format success, the Cleveland, Ohio native Kid Cudi, now residing in Tribeca, New York, has drawn immediate praise in early press reviews, which pointed out "Cudi's introspective persona, ear for melody and eclectic taste in beats," (Entertainment Weekly).
event::tags 339
Website http://www.kidcudi.com/
5:20 PM
to 6:05 PM
Freelance Whales
646 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about To call them multi-instrumentalists might be a little overdone. The kids in Freelance Whales are really just collectors, at heart. They don't really fancy buffalo nickels or Victorian furniture, but over the past two years, they've been collecting instruments, ghost stories, and dream-logs.
event::tags 359
Website http://www.freelancewhales.com/
5:50 PM
to 6:35 PM
The xx
2463 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about The xx arrive with their brilliant debut single Crystalised, released on 20th April 2009 on Young Turks. The xx are a London quartet, featuring the dual lead vocals of Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim (who also play lead and bass guitar respectively), and Jamie Smith (beats, MPC sampler).
event::tags 306
Website http://thexx.info/
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/
8:15 PM
to 9:15 PM
Dirty Projectors
1566 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Album five, Bitte Orca, is Dirty Projectors' most complete effort to date. Reprising the lineup of Amber Coffman (vocals, guitar), Angel Deradoorian (vocals, keyboard, guitar, bass), and drummer Brian Mcomber from 2007's Rise Above, Bitte Orca also adds bassist Nat Baldwin and vocalist Haley Dekle to the fold, resulting in what sounds like Dirty Projectors' first fully collaborative band record.
event::tags 328
Website http://www.dirtyprojectors.net/
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
10:15 PM
to 11:30 PM
Massive Attack
2133 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about Legendary Massive Attack will tour North America for the first time since 2006 in support of their newly released 5th studio album 'Heligoland.' The North American trek will start May 7th at Sound Academy in Toronto, ON and wrap May 30th at the Sasquatch Festival in George, WA.
event::tags 344
Website http://www.massiveattack.com/
11:30 PM
to 11:55 PM
Booka Shade
927 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot-late
event::about Berlin-based Booka Shade (Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier) leapt to the forefront of contemporary dance music in 2005 with their classic singles "Body Language" (with M.A.N.D.Y.) and "Mandarine Girl", and their debut full-length Memento. Since then they've released a string of hit singles, become one of the world's most sought-after electronic live acts and developed their unique sound on the acclaimed albums Movements and The Sun & The Neon Light.
event::tags 319
Website http://www.bookashade.com/
12:00 PM
to 12:45 PM
Jaguar Love
286 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
12:00 PM
to 12:45 PM
Shadow Shadow Shade
141 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about This "Los Angeles septet make you feel as if you have "The Music Man" blaring in one ear, "Rigoletto" ringing in the other and "Tommy" rocking deep in your chest. Their music is euphoric and grandiose, as intoxicating as one of the generous pours the bartenders are liable to give you in the Eastside clubs the band calls home, and has rightfully earned them a spot on any aficionado's short list of best live bands in L.A."
event::tags 371
12:55 PM
to 1:40 PM
Mayer Hawthorne & The County
568 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
1:00 PM
to 1:45 PM
Past Lives
196 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype yeti
event::about The inception of Seattle quartet Past Lives, appropriately in the spring of last year, represented a true new beginning for its four members-friends since youth and veterans of various game-changing art punk ensembles. (The Blood Brothers, Shoplifting, Chromatics, and others)
event::tags 290
Website http://www.pastliveslife.com/
1:05 PM
to 1:50 PM
Yes Giantess
265 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Birthed at the nexus of 2008 and 2009, Boston band Yes Giantess was never meant to last more than a few weeks. The band formed for a one off party. The music they recorded for the show somehow found an online audience and within weeks they were being asked to play shows across the country and in the UK.
event::tags 314
Website http://yesgiantess.com/
1:55 PM
to 2:40 PM
The Temper Trap
1412 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about A lot of water's passed under the bridge since The Temper Trap's delay soaked opening to Sweet Disposition first began causing a stir on Australian radio late last year. The track was the first taster of their recording sessions with UK producer Jim Abbiss (UNKLE, Adele, Arctic Monkeys) and it clearly made the world sit up and take notice.
event::tags 304
Website http://www.thetempertrap.net/
3:25 PM
to 4:10 PM
Quasi
374 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Quasi was formed in Portland OR in '93 by Sam Coomes & Janet Weiss. Their first album was self released in '95.
event::tags 295
Website http://www.theequasi.com/
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
5:20 PM
to 6:20 PM
She & Him
2238 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about She & Him make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature is warm enough to go riding with the top (or at least the windows) rolled down and the radio turned up. They occupy an alternate universe where the saddest of songs feel as warm as sun showers; the rain may be coming down, but somewhere nearby, everything looks bright.
event::tags 296
Website http://www.sheandhim.com/
5:40 PM
to 6:25 PM
The Mountain Goats
1033 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about 4AD is excited to release the new album by THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, which is John Darnielle, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster. The Life Of The World To Come was recorded this spring and features string arrangements by Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy). Less a profession of religious faith than an immersion in Biblical poetry and imagery, the songs on The Life of the World to Come take their names from verses that informed or inspired them, or which, sometimes, came up against them at right angles.
event::tags 279
Website http://www.mountain-goats.com/
6:40 PM
to 7:40 PM
Band of Horses
2733 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about Band of Horses are Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds. Long time touring members of the group, Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of Ramsey and Reynolds, while Barrett and Monroe graced the last album, Cease to Begin.
event::tags 318
Website http://www.bandofhorses.com/
6:50 PM
to 7:50 PM
Camera Obscura
1054 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype bigfoot
event::about Glasgow’s Camera Obscura have had several line-up changes since founder members Tracyanne Campbell and Gavin Dunbar first began rehearsing together back in 1996. Since the amicable departure of Nigel Baillie (percussionist, trumpeter and proud daddy) in 2008, who still pops up onstage occasionally, they have existed as a five-piece.
event::tags 323
Website http://www.camera-obscura.net/
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
9:30 PM
to 11:30 PM
Ween
1460 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype sasquatch
event::about Ween was formed (during 8th grade typing class) in 1984 in New Hope, PA by Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, aka Gene and Dean Ween.
event::tags 311
Website http://www.ween.com/
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Boys Noize
1039 schedule::attendees
Location
The Gorge Amphitheatre
eventtype rumpus-room
event::about At only 26 Alex Ridha already has a decade's worth of music making and DJing behind him. What's ahead of him? One of the brightest future's in electronic music. Ridha presents his second album POWER in October which is keenly anticipated by a fan-base that follows his every move. Alongside peers Erol Alkan and Justice, Ridha is part of a new mongrel breed of techno artist with a maverick bent and solid vision, beaming a myriad of influences from the past through a prism to create something fresh, new and exciting enough to send his audience loopy.
event::tags 320
Website http://www.boysnoize.com
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