The Sasquatch! Festival Brings “120 Minutes” Back

>The latest festival-lineup announcement comes from the Sasquatch! Festival–held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, Wash., and yes, the exclamation point’s theirs–which will have R.E.M. and The Cure as its headliners, a one-two punch that will surely get the wallets of nostalgia-crazed twenty-, thirty-, and fortysomethings aflutter. The roster for the three-day fest, which takes place over Memorial Day weekend, also includes R.E.M. tourmates Modest Mouse and the National, the Flaming Lips doing a “UFO Show” that features a replica of a flying saucer and premiering their long-in-the-works film Christmas on Mars, the Breeders, and a new collaboration between Mike Patton and Dan the Automator called Crudo. I don’t know why, but for some reason this fest’s lineup seems like the most interesting one to me yet. (Perhaps it’s the lack of Slightly Stoopid and Jack Johnson?) Full lineup (via Billboard) after the jump.

R.E.M. The Cure The Flaming Lips (“U.F.O. show”) Death Cab For Cutie Modest Mouse M.I.A. Michael Franti & Spearhead Flight of the Conchords The New Pornographers The Presidents The National Tegan & Sara Built To Spill The Hives Rodrigo y Gabriela Ozomatli Cold War Kids The Breeders Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Okkervil River Dengue Fever Jamie Lidell Crudo Mates Of State Destroyer Rogue Wave Battles Fleet Foxes White Rabbits The Cave Singers Pela Grand Archives The Little Ones Thao Nguyen & the Get Down Stay Down Dead Confederate 65Daysofstatic The Heavenly States Kinski David Bazan Dyme Def Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio Sera Cahoone Joshua Morrison The Blakes Siberian Throw Me The Statue The Cops Say Hi The Shaky Hands J. Tillman

Sasquatch! Festival [Official site]