What, you haven't gone to the Puyallup Fair yet? Tonight's the night--trust us. Or, you can go have a scholarly conversation about important stuff over craft beer. OR you can watch a really awesome Mexican movie about old people. It's a busy night, that's for sure.
Can't Miss It: Wednesday
Sasquatch Gallery: Mega Sunday Roundup
This is the big Sunday finale gallery. We're tossing in Gayngs (whom to our delight shares a lead singer with Sean Na Na and Har Mar Superstar), Das Racist, Fitz and the Tantrums, Modest Mouse and the Flaming Lips into the mix. Now that's a hell of mix and made for one incredible Sunday. For those of you that were there, I'm betting you remember the feeling of fatigue that was beginning to seep in and you really just wanted to take a nap. Then you realized that Fitz was playing or that Flaming Lips was coming on the main stage at sunset. So you tossed back a Five Hour Energy and felt your eighth wind coming on.
Sasquatch Gallery: Sneak Peek Day 3
Ok, I'll be honest with you... we're feeling the fourth-day wearies from so much hard rocking and running up and down to the mainstage twenty times a day. That's pushing it, but you feel me.
What Lily's Up to Today: Sasquatch! Monday Edition
Lily just might be the hardest working girl covering show business. Catch up with another day in her life at Sasquatch!, in which you'll vicariously bear witness to boring sets, energy drinks, tears of joy and today's must-see schedule.
It's Official, Sasquatch Has a Lineup. Huzzah!
The lineup for Sasquatch 2011 is out, announced last night at a special performance at the Showbox. The big names include The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse and, of course, the Foo Fighters.
Can't Miss It: Monday
DOOOO YOUU REAAALIZE?: that The Flaming Lips are in town tonight??. Woohoo x10! The Oklahoma based trio has been rock rock rocking since 1983, and if you've never seen them we strongly suggest you remedy that. They're a rock circus if you will, and along with Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, will be changing lives at The Paramount.
Flaming Lips at Marymoor Park This August
Just added to this summer's already stellar Concerts at Marymoor Park lineup is the Flaming Lips, bringing their psychedelic grandfatherly magic to Redmond Friday, August 21 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $36.50 and go on sale via Ticketmaster and Live Nation next Saturday (June 20) at 10 a.m.
Heads Up: Sasquatch Lineup By Day
Right on the heels of the announcement that the Mars Volta was added to the Sasquatch lineup, and right before tickets go on sale this Saturday, the three-day music festival has seen fit to delineate who will be playing on which day:
Heads Up: Sasquatch Lineup Announced
After months of wild speculation, the official 2008 Sasquatch lineup has finally been announced:
PB&J at the Showbox
Remember a few years back when "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" came out and the Flaming Lips were suddenly everywhere? Mitsubishi started using "Do You Realize" to hawk their cars and Justin Timberlake was dressing up in a dolphin suit and jumping on stage during Lips shows? For a few glorious moments the hipsters and frat boys were humming the same tune, and no one seemed to mind.
Dr. Dog Much Better Than Name Would Suggest
Dr. Dog is a terrible name for a band. Based on that name alone, we'd expect them to be in the vein of Skynrd or perhaps really bad white guy jazz. But instead the Philly quintet make feel-good tunes that, with all the layered harmonies and old-school production, could pass as Beatles b-sides. Their last album Easy Beat contained at least four full-fledged grade-A tracks, including jangly charmer "Say Something" [mp3]. New album We All Belong was released last month to the best reviews of the band's short career, in no small part due to Flaming Lips-leaning retro jams like "Ain't It Strange" (see below).
Get Out
SPELLING: Rarely does an adult get to display a skill so mundane as spelling, and rarer still does an adult have an opportunity to engage in feats of spelling in front of an audience and within the context of a competition, but tonight at the Re-bar is just such an opportunity. We're still in negotiations withe the Re-bar rules committee to see if Seattlest's spelling stand-in FireFox 2.0 is eligible to compete.
Sasquatch Report: Sunday Kickoff
Up next was The Shins, fresh outta P-town. Is it too much to say that their warmth and good humor revived the audience, saving lives most likely lost to hypothermia otherwise? No, it is not. It's not true, exactly, but there you go. Anyway, their set was varied, they tried out two brand-new songs that didn't suck, and as Natalie Portman promised in Garden State, they changed our lives.
Movies Taste Metallic
Do you realize...that the definitive Flaming Lips documentary is currently showing at the Northwest Film Forum? Director Bradley Bessley followed the Lips for over a decade to make The Fearless Freaks, and somehow he had enough brain cells left to edit all his footage and put together a cohesive portrait of the band.

