Sasquatch announced their lineup late the other night. Something like 10:45 local time, which would’ve placed it after midnight on the east coast. I can’t even remember what day. This week’s pretty much a blur, what with work being completely over-the-top crazy, an eleven-week old at home, plus some family medical stuff that’s going on.
That’s not the point. The point is this.
Well, actually, I have many points. I’ve never been to Sasquatch. This lineup isn’t going to get me to go this year. Don’t get me wrong, there’s definitely some bands I’d love to see, but not enough of a draw at the top end to make me drive all that way. Though it’s probably closer than Boise, where I drove to for just one band last summer – Wilco.
Regardless, Mumford And Sons will come to Edmonton soon enough. The Postal Service and Sigur Ros – I’ve never been huge fans. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, meh. Vampire Weekend I’d like to see. The XX I’m seeing later this spring here in Edmonton (just days before Sasquatch, on May 22). The Lumineers – well hell yeh I’d love to see them. Certainly none of those bands are on any bucket list of mine at this point, though.
But what did catch my attention, as so often it does, are bands further down the list. Grimes, Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Japandroids, Ariel Pink, Holy Ghost!, Toro Y Moi, Shout Out Louds, Surfer Blood, DIIV, Youngblood Hawke, Chvrches of course, and Suuns (one of those bands you can NEVER see enough times). That’s a pretty amazing collection of talent in one place for one weekend. I’ll admit that.
So yeh, given unlimited funding and time off, I’d do the trip and hang out and see some awesome music. But I don’t have either of those, and so I’ll sit home and be jealous of friends that will be there, tweeting about who they’re seeing, but knowing that I made the best decision for me at the time. Sigh.
Full Lineup
Mumford And Sons # The Postal Service Sigur Ros Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Vampire Weekend The XX # Lumineers # Arctic Monkeys* Edward Sharpe And the Magnetic Zeros* (pictured, from EFMF 2011) Cake* Primus 3D Empire Of the Sun Imagine Dragons Bloc Party Bird, Andrew Grimes # Dropkick Murphys Built To Spill Alt-J Steve Aoki Disclosure Laidback Luke Azealia Banks Tame Impala # Father John Misty # Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Tallest Man On Earth*# Devendra Banhart Presets Schoolboy Q & Ab-Soul Danny Brown Eaerl Sweatshirt Killer Mike P.O.S. Death Grips Shad* El-P Michael Kiwanuka Solange Twin Shadow* Divine Fits Dirty Projectors Japandroids # Azari & III Baauer Totally Enormous Extinct Menomena # Ryan Bingham JJ Grey & Mofro Porcelain Raft Youth Lagoon Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti # Holy Ghost! # Matthew Dear Toro Y Moi # John Talabot Shout Out Louds Surfer Blood # DIIV # Torche Preservation Hall Jazz Band Atlas Genius # Youngblood Hawke # Fang Island Red Fang Reignwolf Capital Cities Baths # Lusine Yppah feat Anomie Belle Odesza Four Color Zack Beachwood Sparks Barr Brothers*# Shovels & Rope Willy Moon Peace Elliott Brood # Radicals Face Nancy & Beth Akron/Family # Caveman Telekinesis Indians Chvrches # Wild Belle Suuns*# Brown Bird Bombino Robert Delong Sea Wolf ZZ Ward Hundred Waters Luke Sital-Singh Wake Owl* Deep Sea Diver Jherek Bischoff Sean Nelson Rose Windows Nacho Picasso Brothers From Another Knowmads Tilson Xoxo Ra Scion OC Notes: “Golden Gods” Kingdom Crumbs Theoretics Nissim Nick Offerman Mike Birbiglia Brett Gelman Jenny Slate Kyle Kinane Brody Stevens Jon Daly James Adomian Joe Mande Notes: * – bands I’ve already seen live in the past few years; # – bands you should definitely NOT miss if you’re heading down.
