Sasquatch! Music Festival in the USA to give an early taste of Splendour with Jack White, The Shins, Explosions in the Sky and more…

Our live coverage from last year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington State, USA, unveiled it as one of the must-do festivals on the global circuit and with this years line-up sharing several key performers with this year’s Splendour In The Grass line-up (including Jack White, The Shins and Explosions In The Sky), all eyes will be looking to them once again in anticipation for the local festival season to come.

Sasquatch! is a four-day music marathon that takes place at the Gorge Amphitheatre, etched into the side of a secluded canyon in the US Pacific Northwest. Aside from its stellar location, the festival is best known for offering world-class line-ups that cater to modest audiences of through-and-through music lovers. This year Sasquatch! takes place from Friday 25th May to Monday 28th May.

You can check out our coverage for Sasquatch! 2011 here.

2012 Line-up:
Jack White
Beck
Bon Iver
Pretty Lights
Tenacious D
The Shins
Beirut
Girl Talk
The Roots
The Head & The Heart
Portlandia
Feist
Silversun Pickups
Metric
Explosions In The Sky
The Joy Formidable
Mogwai
James Murphy (DJ Set)
M. Ward
John Reilly & Friends
Childish Gambino
St. Vincent
The Civil Wars
Jamey Johnson
Little Dragon
Santigold
Tune-Yards
Wild Flag
Blind Pilot
Wolfgang Gartner
Beats Antique
Apparat
The Walkmen
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Mark Lanegan Band
Spiritualized
Blitzen Trapper
The Cave Singers
Shabazz Palaces
Tycho
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
and more…

The full line-up can be seen here: http://sasquatchfestival.com/.

Larry Heath

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