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Post by bort on Dec 10, 2012 12:18:40 GMT -8
1. Pulp at the Warfield 2. St. Vincent at Sasquatch 3. Asobi Seksu at Highline Ballroom 4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Great American Music Hall 5. Little Dragon at Sasquatcht
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Post by bort on Jun 4, 2012 22:04:10 GMT -8
the last ten minutes of St. Vincent's set were basically the greatest thing that happened all weekend. Exactly this.
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Post by bort on Jun 3, 2012 6:52:07 GMT -8
FD pointed out to me that she has incredible control of her voice. You can hear her just as well when she's whispering as when she's belting out the lyrics. Sometimes I couldn't believe what I was hearing, she just sounded so good, and she's translated all of those songs live in such a dynamic way. Just awesome. And she actually rocked it. Livelier than one would expect, and I had seen her before. Really dug the reinventions of some of the older material, too.
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Post by bort on Jun 3, 2012 6:50:08 GMT -8
Best: 1. St. Vincent (Nothing else even comes close. Been going to fests for nine years and that is definitely in my top three festival sets ever. The operative word here is INTENSE. And she crowd surfed on top of me a few times.) 2. Little Dragon 3. Santigold 4. Feist 5. Beck (on here for merit of setlist alone; performance of the hits felt very flat, but nailed the Sea Change material and "Mutherfuker")
Also good: Metric, Metric (acoustic), Gary Clark Jr, Explosions in the Sky, The Joy Formidable, honeyhoney, Deer Tick (covers set), Rob Delaney, The Walkmen, Active Child
Underwhelming: Dum Dum Girls (I <3 them, but the performance never took off and sound problems never went away, so I would give them another chance), Polica, Of Monsters and Men
Rubbish: Silversun Pickups, Girl Talk, tune-yards, Tenacious D
Better than I thought would be: Childish Gambino
Better than I thought would be, but forgot about completely 5 minutes later: Pretty Lights
Most spirited performance of mediocre music: The Head and the Heart (acoustic)
Too fried on acid at the top of the hill in a post-St. Vincent state of delirium and hysteria to properly focus on but was probably very good: Jack White
Awful: Portlandia
Thank you for playing the one song I care about at exactly the right time: SBTRKT
Was probably great but I left after the first song because it was too much of a hazardous clusterfuck, especially for someone tripping balls: The Roots
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Post by bort on May 11, 2012 13:10:10 GMT -8
I wonder what the other artist signings are. Last year, the list was announced on the second Friday of May.
Edit: here they are! Well, it's almost Sasquatch! time, and we know you're dying to find out who's gonna be signing stuff at the Easy Street booth this year! The following list is incomplete and we don't have the actual signing times in place yet, but we CAN tell you some of the performers who've agreed to come visit...and we can also tell you that this year will include more signings than ever before! Here's the partial lineup; more to come next week.
Friday - 5/25
Allen Stone, Honey Honey, James McCartney, Polica
Saturday - 5/26
Pickwick, Said the Whale, Blitzen Trapper, Craft Spells, Tune-Yards, Civil Wars, TheeSatisfaction, Kurt Vile, Dry The River, Sol, Dum Dum Girls, Helio Sequence
Sunday - 5/27
Graffiti 6, Hospitality, Head & the Heart, Here We Go Magic, Blind Pilot, Gardens & Villa, Hey Rosetta!, Deer Tick
Monday - 5/28
Gold Leaves, Walk The Moon, Poor Moon, Ted Leo, Damien Jurado, Sallie Ford, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cloud Cult, Shearwater, Shabazz Palaces, Cave Singers
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Post by bort on May 5, 2012 8:08:30 GMT -8
Is Feist going to be playing with an orchestra, or was that just a Coachella thing?
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Post by bort on May 4, 2012 22:43:15 GMT -8
I agree about Bon Iver and Pretty Lights as headliners, but the rest of the lineup is their strongest yet. So much I want to see.
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Post by bort on May 2, 2012 7:40:13 GMT -8
Dum Dum Girls end at 5:55 and Childish Gambino at 6:10. How long will it take to get to the pit area of the main stage after Dum Dum Girls? I want to be inner pit for Metric. Should I duck out of Dum Dum Girls early? Is this a possibility or should I just plan on watching Childish Gambino?
What about side stage acts? For example, do I have to endure tune-yards to be up front for St. Vincent? If I catch Zola Jesus, how shitty will my spot be for Little Dragon?
The only two headliners I plan on watching are Beck and Jack White, and getting up front for either of those isn't going to be even attempted because of commitments at other stages (Mogwai and St Vincent, respectively.
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Post by bort on Apr 30, 2012 12:49:38 GMT -8
prettypolly.com/artist-search-result.phpThis site is absolutely horrible but if you cut these numbers in half you might have a good estimate. This is for national booking though, if you base your show around local-ish talent or artists who are going to be on tour you can save a lot of money. When I was in college we would throw a 4 act show and spend about 15 grand total on acts. ASOBI SEKU 2.5K - 5K This is a bargain. Phenomenal live band.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 20:12:32 GMT -8
Little Dragon vs. James Murphy.... COME ON well at least they're close to each other. Well, at least James Murphy is playing 90 minutes, so I can see all of Little Dragon and still see an hour of his set.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 18:55:40 GMT -8
Explosions in the Sky vs Beats Antique (no contest, going with Explosions, but I wanted to see both) Metric vs Purity Ring Not being exposed to tune-yards vs getting a good spot for St. Vincent End of Kurt Vile and beginning of Dum Dum Girls vs Com Truise Charles Bradley vs I Break Horses Little Dragon vs Beirut Zola Jesus vs Beirut Zola Jesus vs getting a good spot for Little Dragon Mogwai vs Beck Gary Clark Jr. vs Chelsea Peretti
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 17:41:15 GMT -8
Don't think the server is ever going back up.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 17:21:41 GMT -8
THanks!
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 17:01:07 GMT -8
This is why they should have made schedule graphics and posted them to facebook like Coachella did.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 16:42:22 GMT -8
So long as St. Vincent, Dum Dum Girls, Purity Ring don't conflict with Metric and/or Jack White on Saturday and Feist doesn't clash with Spiritualized->Mogwai on Monday, I'll be sorted.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 16:25:13 GMT -8
Site fell down and went boom. I wonder how accurate the predictions are.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 14:00:01 GMT -8
Yellow Ostrich was silently moved from the Yeti to the Bigfoot stage.
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Post by bort on Apr 13, 2012 8:59:37 GMT -8
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Post by bort on Mar 19, 2012 13:55:24 GMT -8
Cass McCombs is playing in San Fran on Friday, so he could be the 7th Yeti act on Sunday. As for the others...I really hope there's something else going on during Pretty Lights, so bring it on.
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Post by bort on Mar 19, 2012 11:34:10 GMT -8
Last year, the last Bigfoot act on Friday ended at 7:10.
We currently have 3 Bigfoot acts confirmed for Friday, which is the same as last year. The only Bigfoot acts with unconfirmed days are The Roots and The Walkmen.
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