The Memorial Day Weekend festival in Washington state features Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, the National, Broken Social Scene, the xx, and a bunch more. It's the unofficial start to summer. Let's see what we should be seeing!
Full schedule
here. Sussed out by hot bands below, a suggested schedule via
Pitchfork:
Saturday, May 29:
12:05 Shabazz Palaces (Sasquatch Stage)
1:20 Fool's Gold (Yeti Stage)
4:30 Patton Oswalt (Rumpus-Room Stage)
5:35 Broken Social Scene (Sasquatch Stage)
6:45 WHY? (Yeti Stage)
7:00 The National (Sasquatch Stage)
7:30 The Hold Steady (Bigfoot Stage)
7:30 The Very Best (Rumpus-Room Stage)
8:30 Vampire Weekend (Sasquatch Stage)
8:40 Dam-Funk (Rumpus Room Stage)
10:00 My Morning Jacket (Sasquatch Stage)
Sunday, May 30:
12:05 Caribou (Sasquatch Stage)
1:30 Local Natives (Bigfoot Stage)
2:35 The Tallest Man on Earth (Bigfoot Stage)
3:10 tUnE-yArDs (Yeti Stage)
3:40 Cymbals Eat Guitars (Bigfoot Stage)
4:15 Avi Buffalo (Yeti Stage)
5:50 the xx (Bigfoot Stage)
7:00 LCD Soundsystem (Sasquatch Stage)
7:00 Girls (Bigfoot Stage)
7:30 YACHT (Rumpus-Room Stage)
8:15 Dirty Projectors (Bigfoot Stage)
8:30 Pavement (Sasquatch Stage)
8:40 A-Trak (Rumpus-Room Stage)
9:45 Public Enemy (Bigfoot Stage)
10:15 Massive Attack (Sasquatch Stage)
11:30 Booka Shade (Bigfoot Stage)
Monday, May 31:
3:00 Drive-By Truckers (Sasquatch Stage)
3:25 Quasi (Bigfoot Stage)
4:10 Passion Pit (Sasquatch Stage)
5:10 Japandroids (Yeti Stage)
5:20 She & Him (Sasquatch Stage)
5:40 The Mountain Goats (Bigfoot Stage)
6:15 No Age (Yeti Stage)
6:40 Band of Horses (Sasquatch Stage)
6:50 Camera Obscura (Bigfoot Stage)
8:05 MGMT (Sasquatch Stage)
8:20 The New Pornographers (Bigfoot Stage)
8:40 Neon Indian (Rumpus-Room Stage)