Seattle Subsonic

The Sasquatch Is Coming

May 24th, 2010

Memorial Day is fast approaching, and one of the biggest events for Northwest music fans will be taking place at the Gorge this weekend. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Sasquatch!’s lineup this year has many folks drooling over its depth and breadth, but given the small fortune one needs to attend all three days, I opted for just the one day: Sunday. And after looking through the detailed 3-day schedule to pick out my preferences, and I think we made the right choice. Sure, Saturday has Shabazz Palaces (at NOON fer chrissakes), Broken Social Scene and My Morning Jacket, but I really couldn’t care less about the bands playing between 7 and 10 pm. DEAL BREAKER. Monday’s certainly no slouch, but I’ve seen many of the band’s perform already, so it doesn’t feel like a great loss. I think I’ll feel the most regret about missing Quasi and Neon Indian.

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But Sunday! Sunday has mathematician turned musical chemist Dan Snaith, aka Caribou (at NOON fer chrissakes), modern hero James Murphy and his DFA’d electro-disco-funk LCD Soundsystem, the stark, sophisticated and spellbinding restraint of the xx, the reunion of actual heroes Pavement, hip-hop’s original loud-mouth soldiers in Public Enemy, wonky dance-floor evangelists YACHT, and of course the reclusive Massive Attack and their subtle massive attack. But whatever your weekend schedule entails, I’m sure it’ll be worth it’s weight in gold. Or Bud Light tall boys.

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Sunday, May 30:

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Time	Stage	Band
12:00pm – 12:40pm	Yeti	Dinosaur Feathers
12:05pm – 12:55pm	Sasquatch	Caribou
12:30pm – 1:15pm	Bigfoot	Langhorne Slim
1:00pm – 1:45pm	Yeti	Martina Topley Bird
1:00pm – 1:30pm	Rumpus Room	Rory Scovel
1:10pm – 1:55pm	Sasquatch	Midlake
1:30pm – 2:15pm	Bigfoot	Local Natives
2:00pm – 2:45pm	Rumpus Room	Luke Burbank
2:05pm – 2:50pm	Yeti	Jets Overhead
2:15pm – 3:00pm	Sasquatch	The Long Winters
2:35pm – 3:20pm	Bigfoot	The Tallest Man On Earth
3:10pm – 3:55pm	Yeti	tUnE-yArDs
3:15pm – 4:00pm	Rumpus Room	Rob Riggle
3:20pm – 4:05pm	Sasquatch	They Might Be Giants
3:40pm – 4:25pm	Bigfoot	Cymbals Eat Guitars
4:15pm – 5:00pm	Yeti	Avi Buffalo
4:25pm – 5:10pm	Sasquatch	Kid Cudi
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Rumpus Room	Mike Birbiglia
4:45pm – 5:30pm	Bigfoot	City and Colour
5:20pm – 6:05pm	Yeti	Freelance Whales
5:35pm – 6:35pm	Sasquatch	Tegan and Sara
5:50pm – 6:35pm	Bigfoot	The xx
6:25pm – 7:10pm	Yeti	Vetiver
7:00pm – 7:45pm	Bigfoot	Girls
7:00pm – 8:00pm	Sasquatch	LCD Soundsystem
7:30pm – 8:15pm	Yeti	Fruit Bats
7:30pm – 8:15pm	Rumpus Room	YACHT
8:15pm – 9:15pm	Bigfoot	Dirty Projectors
8:30pm – 9:45pm	Sasquatch	Pavement
8:40pm – 9:25pm	Rumpus Room	A-Trak
9:45pm – 10:45pm	Bigfoot	Public Enemy
10:00pm – 11:00pm	Rumpus Room	Simian Mobile Disco (DJ set)
10:15pm – 11:30pm	Sasquatch	Massive Attack
11:30pm – 11:55pm	Bigfoot	Booka Shade

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Saturday and Monday schedules after the jump/cut/fold/whatever (my biased preferences in bold).

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Saturday, May 29
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Time	Stage	Band
12:00pm – 12:35pm	Bigfoot	Dawes
12:05pm – 12:50pm	Sasquatch	Shabazz Palaces
12:15pm – 1:00pm	Yeti	Morning Teleportation
12:50pm – 1:35pm	Bigfoot	Laura Marling
1:00pm – 1:30pm	Rumpus Room	Moshe Kasher
1:10pm – 1:55pm	Sasquatch	Brother Ali
1:20pm – 2:05pm	Yeti	Fool’s Gold
1:55pm – 2:40pm	Bigfoot	Mumford & Sons
2:00pm – 2:45pm	Rumpus Room	Brent Weinbach
2:15pm – 3:00pm	Sasquatch	Minus The Bear
2:25pm – 3:10pm	Yeti	Nurses
3:00pm – 3:45pm	Bigfoot	Portugal. The Man
3:15pm – 4:00pm	Rumpus Room	Garfunkel & Oates
3:20pm – 4:05pm	Sasquatch	Brad
3:30pm – 4:15pm	Yeti	The Middle East
4:05pm – 4:50pm	Bigfoot	Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
4:25pm – 5:10pm	Sasquatch	OK Go
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Rumpus Room	Patton Oswalt
4:35pm – 5:20pm	Yeti	Patrick Watson
5:10pm – 5:55pm	Bigfoot	The Posies
5:35pm – 6:35pm	Sasquatch	Broken Social Scene
5:40pm – 6:25pm	Yeti	The Lonely Forest
6:20pm – 7:05pm	Bigfoot	Miike Snow
6:45pm – 7:30pm	Yeti	WHY?
7:00pm – 8:00pm	Sasquatch	The National
7:30pm – 8:30pm	Bigfoot	The Hold Steady
7:30pm – 8:15pm	Rumpus Room	The Very Best
8:30pm – 9:30pm	Sasquatch	Vampire Weekend
8:40pm – 9:25pm	Rumpus Room	Dam-Funk
9:00pm – 10:00pm	Bigfoot	Nada Surf
10:00pm – 11:30pm	Sasquatch	My Morning Jacket
10:00pm – 11:00pm	Rumpus Room	Z-Trip
11:30pm – 11:55pm	Bigfoot	Deadmau5

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Monday, May 31
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Time	Stage	Band
12:00pm – 12:45pm	Bigfoot	Jaguar Love
12:00pm – 12:45pm	Yeti	Shadow Shadow Shade
12:00pm – 12:40pm	Sasquatch	The Heavy
12:55pm – 1:40pm	Sasquatch	Mayer Hawthorne & The County
1:00pm – 1:30pm	Rumpus Room	Hannibal Buress
1:00pm – 1:45pm	Yeti	Past Lives
1:05pm – 1:50pm	Bigfoot	Yes Giantess
1:55pm – 2:40pm	Sasquatch	The Temper Trap
2:00pm – 2:45pm	Yeti	Phantogram
2:00pm – 2:45pm	Rumpus Room	Todd Barry
2:20pm – 3:05pm	Bigfoot	Seattle Rock Orchestra
3:00pm – 3:50pm	Sasquatch	Drive-By Truckers
3:00pm – 3:45pm	Yeti	Fresh Espresso
3:15pm – 4:00pm	Rumpus Room	Bobcat Goldthwait
3:25pm – 4:10pm	Bigfoot	Quasi
4:05pm – 4:50pm	Yeti	Telekinesis
4:10pm – 5:00pm	Sasquatch	Passion Pit
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Rumpus Room	Craig Robinson
4:30pm – 5:15pm	Bigfoot	Dr. Dog
5:10pm – 5:55pm	Yeti	Japandroids
5:20pm – 6:20pm	Sasquatch	She & Him
5:40pm – 6:25pm	Bigfoot	The Mountain Goats
6:15pm – 7:00pm	Yeti	No Age
6:40pm – 7:40pm	Sasquatch	Band of Horses
6:50pm – 7:50pm	Bigfoot	Camera Obscura
7:30pm – 8:15pm	Rumpus Room	Hudson Mohawke
8:05pm – 9:05pm	Sasquatch	MGMT
8:20pm – 9:20pm	Bigfoot	The New Pornographers
8:40pm – 9:25pm	Rumpus Room	Neon Indian
9:30pm – 11:30pm	Sasquatch	Ween
10:00pm – 11:00pm	Rumpus Room	Boys Noize