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As if Sasquatch, Bumbershoot and concert series at Marymoor Park, wineries, and the zoo weren't enough, also coming up: Sounds Outside, the fourth annual free avant-garde music festival presented by the Monktail Creative Music Concern. Dubbed "a celebration of adventurous music and community," this year's fest takes place on two non-consecutive Saturdays, July 25th and August 15th, at Cal Anderson Park. Full lineup after the jump.

Just when we thought the lineup was as final as it was going to get until the announcement of all acts come July, a couple more names trickle out from One Reel. Now added: The Black Eyed Peas (currently starring in this nightmare of a video), Metric (who just played a sold-out show at the Showbox last night), and Soulsavers featuring Mark Lanegan. With the last round of acts, it was announced that Lanegan was off the lineup with Isobel Campbell, but now he's back with Soulsavers. Whatevs, we'll take it. A few of the $25 single-day tickets remain. Check out the acts by day; full current lineup after the jump.

The official lineup for this year's Sasquatch (May 23-25) was announced today, and it's a doozy. The big names: Jane's Addiction (as the requisite reunion band), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails (who will soon be taking a sabbatical), Ben Harper (yes, again), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes (natch), TV On The Radio (who will assuredly be much better at Sasquatch than their SNL appearance), Animal Collective, Santogold, Of Montreal, Explosions In The Sky, M. Ward, The Avett Brothers, Doves, Grizzly Bear, M83, and Girl Talk.

Road trip! The seventh annual What the Heck Fest is taking place all weekend at venues in Anacortes. Mt. Eerie is but one of the many bands set to perform.

The ever-dangerous folk music festival scene strikes again! While we were enjoying Sasquatch and the teeming crowds of drunks it brings, there was apparently a shooting at the peace-and-love-in that is the Folklife Festival. The most intense thing at the Folklife that we knew and loved were over-enthusiastic marimba players and drum circles. Apparently, times have changed. Three people were injured on Saturday when a fight broke out near a drum circle. According to witnesses, one of the men engaged in the fight tried to pistol whip another brawler, and the gun went off. The Folklife version of the magic bullet traveled through a man's nasal passage, another man's hand, and finally ended up stuck in a woman's leg.

This year if Sasquatch just ain't your thing, there's an upcoming brand-new music festival hosted by our neighbors to the north. Yes indeedy, this summer marks the first-ever Pemberton Festival, to be held July 25-27 in Pemberton, British Columbia. Considering it's their first year, this little baby music fest has rounded up some big names, including Coldplay, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Jay-Z, Interpol, Death Cab, Flaming Lips, and Vampire Weekend. There'll be two stages and a dance tent to house the 50+ bands playing the fest over all three days. Here's the confirmed line-up so far:

Last summer (ah, summer!) we drove down to Portland for their annual Pickathon Roots Music Festival, where we found ourselves exposed to all manner of folkies from Portland and beyond. One of the bands that stole the weekend for us was from Indiana, of all godforsaken places. On Saturday night, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band played a show in the barn that seriously blew our mind. Joined by Seattleite Jason Webley, they just played a flat-out barn burner of a show.

And we mean everybody: the New York Times, Pitchfork, the ever-fickle blogosphere. Seems that it's not hard to garner that kind of love and affection when you're a Brit-leaning pop quintet straight outta Austin. With clever arrangements, charming melodies, limber lyrics, and jangly guitars, Voxtrot just can't help but draw comparisons to bands like Belle & Sebastian, Morrissey, the Wedding Present, and even the Cure. After a string of well-received EPs, their self-titled debut full-length came out in May, and since then, they've been touring nonstop (most recently as openers for Arctic Monkeys), while also performing at the Pitchfork festival, the Siren Music Festival in Coney Island, and at CMJ.

As we speak, the invasion of the obnoxious roaring planes has begun, so we'll just get the "not a fan of the Blue Angels" admission out of the way. Go ahead and slaughter us in the comments. Apparently we're the only one in the world who doesn't go all ga-ga over them. We have no soul, but that's fine. We'll accept that and move on.

We've always gotten a strong High Fidelity vibe from Pitchfork. Duh, right? The music geek relationship is hardly subtle. But now that Blue Moon booker Jason Josephes is spreading these recordings he made in Minneapolis with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber back in '97 we can't even think of the music moguls at P'fork and not imagine a dank basement with matresses crammed against the walls, a mic hanging from an exposed two by four and John Cusack tapping away at a Casio singing about a naked transexual with nothing but margerine for eyes. You can hear the fat in her thighs...

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

[This is part three of a series of posts on Movement, Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, held Memorial Day weekend. Part one introduced the festival using Seattle events as points of reference. Part two described the musical experience.]

[This is part two of a series of posts on Movement, Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, held Memorial Day weekend. Part one introduced the festival using Seattle events as points of reference.]

Seattlest has mastered the art of being in two places at once. Sasquatch took part of our attention for the long weekend, but we also managed to get ourselves to Detroit for Movement, Detroit's Electronic Music Festival (DEMF). Started in 2000, the festival has operated as a celebration of Detroit music culture, with a primary focus on techno. Seattlest has attended almost every year since the second, with this trip providing an annual highlight. In this season of festivals, there are some comparisons that can be drawn between this festival and other more local ones, so we'll recap the event while noting what makes this a uniquely Detroit event and those areas where local festivals could take inspiration. Since that could prove to be lengthy, we'll break this up into a series of posts. Hope you enjoy it.

The middle of the year is approaching, so we think it's fair to give you an update on the folks we listed as creating some of the best tracks to come out of the area last year. For those of you who missed out the first time, here's a second chance to hear what the Pac NW is putting out into the world.

After bringing in the new year with an exercise of excess (well, unless you're Seattlest), you likely created a new resolution to take it a bit easier on yourself. Well, it's been the better part of a week and the weekend is approaching, so it's time to realize that you made that resolution in haste, and you should be more realistic and adjust accordingly. Excess is fine, so long as it's in the right groups (and no, we don't mean Canadian-style, but if that's what floats your boat, go nuts).

You know, we love nothing more than a music festival (okay that's a lie, our number one true love is Jupiter Jones of the Three Investigators Series, but we fear that will be unrequited).

It’s summer, or at least it is practically everywhere else in the country, and every classical musical group in this town and towns nearby seems to be taking a summer hiatus. Seattlest thinks a lot of people are heading out of town this weekend anyway, so perhaps this break is a good business move for the classical folks.

Perhaps Seattlest is overstating things when we say that most people, when they think of classical music, think of stuffy concert halls, people dressed like penguins, and paying a lot of money for an uncomfortable nap. Of course, we say this only when we feel especially pessimistic about people's perceptions of classical music.

Apparently, there is something out there called 'nature.' It has trees and birds and such things. We are a little scared of it. If you, on the other hand, are more intrepid than we are and you also happen to enjoy the indie rock, head over to the Gorge Amphitheater tomorrow to see the Sasquatch Music Festival. As you most likely know, the lineup features the Pixies, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Kanye West, the Dears, Arcade Fire, the Bloc Party and more. The lineup is awesome, but we are a little biased towards ceilings, walls and climate control, but that's just us.