It looks like Sasquatch 2012 is offering a very robust lineup again this year the lovely Gorge Amphitheatre. 

The Northwest festival as announced its 2012 lineup. The unveiling of the lineup came at Sasquatch’s launch party, which took place earlier tonight at Seattle’s Neptune Theater.

Some of the acts that will grace The Gorge stages this year are: Beck, Jack White, Spiritualized, Beirut, St. Vincent, Bon Iver, Girl Talk, Mogwai, Silversun Pickups, Feist, The Shins andTenacious D.

Other acts announced include: Metric, Childish Gambino, Wild Flag, Zola Jesus, Portlandia, Yellow Ostrich, Wu Lyf, Tune-Yards, Shabazz Palaces, Ben Howard, Sol, Tycho, Nero, Thee Satisfaction, The Roots, Electric Guest, Cave Singers, Explosions in the Sky and Purity Ring. 

Additional acts include…Little Dragon, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, The Joy Formidable, Dum Dum Girls, Com Truise, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, SBTRKT, Craft Spells, Grouplove, Fun, Head and the Heart, John Reilly’s Friends, Pretty Light, Alabama Shakes and M. Ward.

Also on tap will we be…The Walkmen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Deer Tick, Kurt Vile, Imelda May, The War On Drugs, The Helio Sequence, Shearwater, Ben Howard, Cass McCombs, Active Child, Charles Bradley, Here We Go Magic, Araabmuzik, Gary Clark Jr., The Physics and John Mulaney.

Those and others artists will perform on five different stages: Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Banana Shack, Yetiand the Main Stage. 

The festival is scheduled to go down on Memorial Day Weekend (May 25th-28th) at the The Gorge in George, WA. Pre-sale kicks off next Wednesday, February 8th at 10AM PT via Live Nation.

Tickets go on sale to the general public next Saturday, February 11th also via Live Nation.

1. Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson

2. Dave Matthews Band Caravan

3. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

4. Bush

5. Leon Russell 

With/ Madina Lake, Hell Or Highwater, New Years Day

Knitting Factory Concert House – Spokane
Sun, December 11, 2011
Doors: 6:00 PM / Show: 6:30 PM
$12.00 – on sale now HERE. 

Thursday, October 6, 2011
*Astronautalis (Seattle, WA))
*The Soul and the Machine (Spokane, WA)
*MJ Beatboxer (Spokane, WA)
*Cassidiom (Spokane, WA)
*P Wrecks (Spokane, WA)
@ Aclub, 416 W. Sprague
7:30 doors
8:00 PM start, 21+ show
$10 advance from TicketsWest, 4000 Holes, The Long Ear
$12 door

This will be a 21+show (starting promptly at 8:00 PM) on Thursday, Oct. 6 at Aclub, 416 W. Sprague.

Click Here to check out a past review with photos from the last time we saw Astronautalis

We meet again Uproar Festival! Last year we rocked it hard together at Greyhound Park in Post Falls, however this year you came to our hood and tore up the Spokane Arena and its parking lot!

We arrived at the Spokane Arena to a sea of black canopy tents, trucks, tour busses, a stage and Rockstar Energy Drink flags and banners everywhere, in the Parking Lot!!! It was pretty exciting to walk up on the corner of Boone and Howard and see kids and adults rocking out, in the outdoors. I wasn’t expecting an outdoor stage… the only other time I have seen an outdoor stage at the Arena was for a country show. Any who it looked badass.

We got to the Best Buy Music Gear Stage just in time to catch Sevendust. Who came out on stage to a packed crowd with fists in the air. Lajon Witherspoon was talking to the crowd about how his birthday is tomorrow and how thankful he was that because of their fans that at the age of 39 he is still making music, touring, and making his dream come true. They sounded great and we were so lucky to be watching them outside in Spokane in October, with sun!!!  We heard a couple of songs from Sevendust including “Praise,” and “Splinter” before I had to wait in the longest line ever to get inside the Arena! The line was so long to get on the floor that I missed the entire, yes entire, Escape the Fate set. Kind of a bummer, but Matt said it was cool. I am sure I will have a chance to see them again in the future.

Bullet for My Valentine was not fucking around. The girl in front of me in line told me how all she wanted to see today was Bullet for My Valentine, they were who she came to see at Uproar. I did notice the amount of fans each band drew in, you could almost take a poll of the fans by all of the different shirts. Bullet For My Valentine told the crowd right off the bat… they were here to do one thing, and that is play heavy fucking metal. They got a circle pit going and performed “Waking the Demon,” “Your Betrayal,” “The Last Fight,” “Scream Aim Fire,” “Tears Don’t Fall,” and a few other songs. They definitely got the crowd pumped up for Seether, which I didn’t realize how may Seether songs I knew. I recognized their entire set! Which when you know every song of a set… that means you are a fan. The set list went “Gasoline,” “Fine Again,” “Broken,” “Tonight,” “Country Song,” “Rise Above This,” “Fake It,” and “Remedy.” They just killed it, and the three of them made sure to put on a kick ass set. So loved it; even when Shaun Morgan threw his guitar into the drum set at the end. Kind of hoping they will come back to Spokane, and I may have the chance to see them again.

Three Days Grace kept the energy going and took the stage next. At this point in the day, most people saw seven bands before them. In fact Adam Gontier even got off the stage and walked down the side, around the back, and back up the other side and made sure anyone who wasn’t standing got up. Though almost every time I looked behind me or to the side of me people weren’t in their seats they were leaning over, rocking out and singing along. I was shocked by the amount of people who stood up and rocked out for the entire night. Three Days Grace performed “The Good Life,” “Break,” “Pain,” “I Hate Everything About You,” “Home,” “Never Too Late,” “Riot,” and “Animal I Have Become.”

Last but not least Avenged Sevenfold was getting ready to take the stage. There was a shear black curtain covering the front of the stage and when the lights went out, big flames shot up and lit up the stage which had a huge statue of the bands skull logo. The stage looked incredible. There were skulls everywhere and the band looked like badasses, never taking off their sunglasses. M. Shadows also welcomed everyone into the family if this was their first time seeing Avenged Sevenfold. Plus I learned that I guess at the start of their tour M. Shadows said that he would bring up the first person onto the stage who made a sign that read something along the lines of Pull Me Up On Stage. Well he stuck with it and tonight he brought two people up on stage, I thought that was so cool!!! He kind of seems like a softy under that metal shell. He also mentioned how they have been playing outside in the rain and it’s been cold, and he were are in Spokane inside and people have seats. He wanted to fuck shit up, mentioning there are 6,000 of us on the floor so in order to get us going they played some songs that they played on old Warped Tour… beginning with “Second Heartbeat.” Avenged Sevenfold also performed “Nightmare,” “Beast and the Harlot,” “Welcome to the Family,” “Afterlife,” “Buried Alive,” “So Far Away,” “Chapter Four,” “A Little Piece of Heaven,” “Bat Country,” and “Unholy Confessions.” Every time I have seen Avenged Sevenfold they put on an incredible show that has me talking about it for the next couple of days.

Overall it was cool to have Uproar in Spokane and also to have a big rock festival like that in town. Sure there were girls wearing hardly any clothes and few people who had just one too many beers but the music and seeing people have a good time at a show made it worth it. Uproar 2012 is looking like a good time and I can’t wait to see next year’s lineup!

Photos courtesy of Matt Auclair.

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TERRAIN Main Stage SET TIMES ANNOUNCED!

Koreshakti 5:00-5:20
Stone Tobey 5:20-6:00 & between sets
Wonder Wonder 6:00-6:30
Surprise Guest 7:00-7:30
The Horse Thieves 8:00-8:30
House of Ghosts 9:00-9:30
Tangled Roots Break dancers 9:30-9:50 +Stone Tobey
Summer in Siberia 10:00-10:30
Ocean is..Bl/ck Ceiling 11:00-11:30 +special guest
Portland’s R&B Funk Machines…
PURPLE & GREEN 12:00-1:30am

..exciting surprises throughout the night as well as a secondary performance stage!

TERRAIN 2011 @ the Music City Building:1011 W 1st Ave
Friday October 7th, 2011 :: 5-1:30am
All Ages Welcome :: Free Public Event

150+ regional artists! Audio, Video, Visual, Installation, Literary, Performance.

It was a complete honor and a treat to see Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson on one stage in Spokane. I couldn’t believe I had the opportunity to see these two icons, and the night was remarkable. At one point in the night Kris even said “I always feel like I am dreaming when I’m up here with Merle.” Kris and Merle warmed up the INB Performing Arts Center with their love for songwriting, their humor, and their music. The crowd would chuckle in between songs or when Merle or Kris would add in a funny line to a song.

Merle, Kris, and the Strangers performed 28 songs for us! How incredible is that?! 28! The Strangers were an incredible band too, top notch musicians. There were quite a handful of knock your socks off solos tonight as well. My favorite part about the night was seeing how much fun these two were having on stage together. They would joke and laugh but when you would see Kris sing along in the back as Merle sang lead, that was cool. Another part of the performance tonight that made it so much fun was the crowd. There were plenty of whistles, hollers, and singing along. The gentlemen that sat behind me knew every word, and he didn’t miss a beat to sing along to every song. He was so stoked to be at the show. At one point he even called his son, held up the phone, and at the end of a Merle Haggard song said “Son now that is a true American legend.” I also loved being able to look down the row I was sitting in and see every single pair of feet tapping along.

Out of the 28 songs Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, and the Strangers performed for us tonight, a few of them included:

“Shipwrecked” – Kris Kristofferson

“I Had a Beautiful Time” – Merle Haggard

“Movin’ On” – Merle Haggard

“I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” – Merle Haggard

“Big City” – Merle Haggard

“Me and Bobby McGee” – Kris Kristofferson

“Help Me Make It Through The Night” – Kris Kristofferson

“They’re Tearin’ The Labor Camps Down” – Merle Haggard

“The Bottle Let Me Down” – Merle Haggard

“I Take A Lot of Pride In What I Am” – Merle Haggard

“Sunday Morning Coming Down” – Kris Kristofferson

“Mama Tried” – Merle Haggard

“It Always Will Be” – Merle Haggard

“Workin’ Man Blues” – Merle Haggard

“T.B. Blues” – Merle Haggard

“Little Ole Wine Drinker Me” – Merle Haggard

“Here Comes That Rainbow”  – Kris Kristofferson

“If I Could Only Fly” – Merle Haggard

“Pilgrim” – Kris Kristofferson

“Okie From Muskogee” – Merle Haggard

“Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of Me” – Merle Haggard

“Moment of Forever” – Merle Haggard

“Why Me” – Merle Haggard

There was even a cover of “Folsom Prison Blues” in which we all clapped our hands too! It might sound cheesy but this was a hard working American kind of show. I loved it!!! I grew up listening to old country music and the set tonight just put the biggest smile on my face and was a great way to end the rough weekend I had.

Photos courtesy of Matt Auclair.

If you pre-order A Very She & Him Christmas on CD or red vinyl LP in the Merge store you have the option of ordering the album with a knitted She & Him holiday hat and/or mittens. Physical pre-orders will include exclusive She & Him wrapping paper, while supplies last.

I am super excited about this and already pre-ordered the vinyl with the Awesome Super Cute hat and mittens!!!

CLICK HERE to pre-order your copy today!

A portion of the album’s sales will support literary organization 826 National.

The track listing for A Very She & Him Christmas is:

1. The Christmas Waltz
2. Christmas Day
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4. I’ll Be Home for Christmas
5. Christmas Wish
6. Sleigh Ride
7. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
8. Silver Bells
9. Baby, It’s Cold Outside
10. Blue Christmas
11. Little Saint Nick
12. The Christmas Song