Sasquatch kicks Coachella's butt

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Arcade Fire, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Pixies Set For Battle Royale At Sasquatch Festival

This year's annual Sasquatch Festival, held at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA, boasts not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not fifty, but at least a half dozen "buzz" bands. The others run along the lines of "critically-boosted" jam bands, alternative country, sucker-punch blues, and whatever it is you decide you want to call the brilliantly wondrous creations of Joanna Newsom.

This year's festival boasts performances by the likes of The Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Pixies, Wilco, New Pornographer AC Newman, Chicago blues hog Bobby Bare Jr., jam band-inspired noodling from Benevento Russo Duo, and Matisyahu, as well as warm, gooey guitar goodness from freshly-hyped slinger Ray Lamontagne. Be Good Tanyas and The Frames are also set to play, but they aren't as exciting, fresh, or buzzed about as the bands above and aren't as easily categorized as the bands directly above. Which obviously hampers the culturally-significant rambling one could do about both bands and also limits the writer in deciding exactly one honorably hip way to describe.

Noticeably absent from this year's line-up are Northwest heroes Built To Spill who have played the festival several times in the past.

Sasquatch is set to rule your world Memorial Day weekend.