This week the lineup was released for the 2015 Sasquatch! Music Festival and it is arguably the best lineup the 14 year old festival has ever seen.
Like every year I attended the Sasquatch! lineup announcement party at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle with the aim of live tweeting the lineup as it was released so that I could be one of the first to know the lineup and share with other lovers of the festival. This year though my tweeting was put on hold until the announcement video was over. I was just too impressed with the lineup to look away from the screen. Name after name I found myself saying out loud “no way!”
Not only is this the best Sasquatch! lineup I have ever seen but it is one the best lineups I have ever seen for any festival. Period. From headliners like Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant and Modest Mouse all the way down to some of the best artists western Washington has to offer like Cataldo, Smokey Brights, Rose Windows, My Goodness and many more, this lineup is pretty much just bragging.
When the video was done playing and all the bands were announced the only thing I could think of was this image of all these sad people who already have their tickets and trips booked to Indio for the Coachella Valley Music Fest but now wish they had only waited and planned a trip out to the Gorge instead. Which isn’t to say that the Coachella lineup is bad (well, ya… it is) but it just doesn’t come close to what Adam Zacks and company put together for Sasquatch! this year.
Presale is happening now and tickets will go on sale to the general public this Saturday at 10am and a four-day pass will cost $350. Even at that price this should sellout pretty quickly.
We will dive deeper into this lineup soon but for now just look below and take it all in:
Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant &The Sensational Space Shifters, Modest Mouse, Lana Del Rey, Ryan Adams, Of Monsters and Men, The Decemberists, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, Flume, Spoon, James Blake, Chromeo, Hot Chip, Sbtrkt, Schoolboy Q, The New Pornographers, The War On Drugs, The Glitch Mob, Little Dragon, Gogol Bordello, Father John Misty, Run The Jewels, Jose Gonzalez, Jenny Lewis, Milky Chance, Twenty One Pilots, Mø, Kiesza, Real Estate, Future Islands, Odesza, Royal Blood, Ab-Soul, Shovels &Rope, Glass Animals, Sohn, Jungle, Sharon Van Etten, Action Bronson, Perfume Genius, Dilated Peoples, Cashmere Cat, Sylvan Esso, Temples, Rustie, Milo Greene, Woods, Shakey Graves, Courtney Barnett, Slow Magic, St. Paul &The Broken Bones, Benjamin Booker, The Budos Band, The Knocks, King Tuff, Sam Lachow, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Fences, Phox, San Fermin, Black Pistol Fire, Alvvays, Fuzz, Strand of Oaks, Raury, Will Butler, The Districts, Twin Peaks, Ruen Brothers, Kate Tempest, Quilt, Merchandise, Hiss Golden Messenger, Nothing, Bishop Nehru, Ex Hex, Diarrhea Planet, Ought, Lizzo, Natalie Prass, Tala, Blank Range, Rose Windows, Grynch, My Goodness, The Young Evils, The Maldives, Kinski, S (Jenn Ghetto), Porter Ray, Black Whales, Cataldo, Manatee Commune, Smokey Brights, Thunderpussy, Shaprece, Vox Mod, DJAO, Ayron Jones &The Way, Murder Vibes, and more alongside comedy from Doug Benson, Leslie Jones, Pete Davidson, Cameron Esposito, Chris Gethard, Nick Thune, Emmett Montgomery and Yogi Paliwal.
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