Music Fest

KEXP, NPR to Broadcast Live from Sasquatch!

Hear full sets by Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco, and more.

By Laura Dannen May 24, 2011

No tickets? No problem. Sasquatch will be broadcast on KEXP and NPR this year.

This is why I love the interweb: I can’t make it to Sasquatch! music fest this weekend (why do people plan weddings over Memorial Day?), but at least I can listen in. NPR and local member station KEXP will live webcast and broadcast from the Gorge from May 28–30, 11:30am–11:30pm, all four stages. That’s a glut of concerts—we’re talking full sets by Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco, Deerhunter, Bright Eyes, Flying Lotus, J Mascis, Major Lazer, Old 97’s, Robyn, Smith Westerns, Surfer Blood, The Thermals, Twin Shadow, and Washed Out, among others.

Follow KEXP’s Cheryl Waters and Kevin Cole on 90.3FM (starting May 27, a day early), or NPR Music critic Ann Powers and All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen at npr.org/sasquatch and via the NPR Music iPhone app (don’t worry, it’s free). KUT Austin, OPB Portland, and The Current from Minnesota Public Radio will also simulcast. Concerts will be archived on the site and as podcasts.

If Sasquatch! isn’t your thing, consider planning for any of these other Northwest summer music fests brought to you by Seattle Met‘s new Tripster blog. (We’re counting San Fran as the NW, just for today.)

Sasquatch! music festival runs May 27–30 at the Gorge Amphitheatre.

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