Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails Top Sasquatch Lineup

Plus Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Decemberists, Bon Iver, Of Montreal, Erykah Badu
Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails Top Sasquatch Lineup

This weekend, Trent Reznor announced on the Nine Inch Nails website that his band would tour this year with fellow Lollapalooza 1991 alums Jane's Addiction (original lineup and everything!) and that this might actually be the last Nine Inch Nails tour ever. Well, now we've got one date on that tour: the Sasquatch Music Festival, at the reportedly crazy-beautiful Gorge in Quincy, Washington.

The eighth Sasquatch Festival will jump off this Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25, and now we've got the lion's share of the lineup. Sasquatch always comes with a pretty strong lineup, but compared to previous years, this one looks particularly stacked. Among the highlights: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, Fleet Foxes, the Decemberists, TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, Bon Iver, the newly christened Santigold, Of Montreal, Grizzly Bear, M83, and the Gaslight Anthem.

Also of note: Congratulations seem to be in order for Kings of Leon, who have finally ascended to American festival-headliner status; the Sasquatch press release even mentions them before Nine Inch Nails!

And this year, Ben Harper will play the role that Jack Johnson filled last year: The guy who plays practically every festival in America, always near the top of the bill, despite the fact that most of the hipster audiences at these festivals hates his music.

Here's the lineup, with more to come:

Jane's Addiction
Kings of Leon
Nine Inch Nails
Ben Harper & Restless7
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Erykah Badu
The Decemberists
Fleet Foxes
TV on the Radio
Animal Collective
Silversun Pickups
Bon Iver
Santigold
Of Montreal
Explosions in the Sky
DeVotchKa
Peter Bjorn & John
Gogol Bordello
M. Ward
The Avett Brothers
Doves
Calexico
Grizzly Bear
M83
Girl Talk
The Gaslight Anthem
The Walkmen
Chromeo (DJ set)
Deadmau5
Mugison
Sun Kil Moon
Airborne Toxic Event
Blitzen Trapper
Shearwater
BLK JKS
The Wrens
Tobacco
Monotonix
King Khan and the Shrines
St. Vincent
Passion Pit
John Vanderslice
Bishop Allen
Blind Pilot
AA Bondy
Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Knux
Ra Ra Riot
The Dodos
Beach House
Arthur & Yu
The Submarines
Owl City
Viva Voce
James Pants
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The Builders & the Butchers
The Duchess & the Duke
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Fences
School of Seven Bells
Death Vessel
Horse Feathers
Hockey
Point Juncture WA
The Pica Beats
Loch Lomond
Vince Mira
Zach Galifiankis
Demetri Martin
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job
Todd Barry
Jon Benjamin
God's Pottery
People's Republic of Komedy

Posted by Tom Breihan on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:35pm