At Sasquatch: Lumineers, Edward Sharpe, Atlas Genius, and Holy Ghost!

SASQUATCH! MUSIC FESTIVAL

Sasquatch Music Festival is taking place this weekend.

The event creator Adam Zacks and Live Nation Northwest president Jeff Trisler have both received the Governor’s Recognition Award for their outstanding accomplishments and innovative leadership in music!

Zacks and Trisler were on stage at the festival during a set by Pacific NW natives Built to Spill to receive the award with this message from Governor Jay Inslee:

The popular festival sold out in record time (90 minutes after going on sale) and it’s easy to see why: they booked the best bands. Below are some of those bands at Sasquatch this weekend:

One of the hottest bands this year is The Lumineers. You might recall that we covered the band last year in New Orleans. For a relatively ‘new’ band, I cannot believe they are playing the Target Center here in Minneapolis. This is a stadium-sized venue; very little bands that I cover can manage to pull off playing such a spacious arena.

Anyway, the Denver-based band is currently in the middle of their tour for their self-titled debut album.

PS, If you were wondering, yes, Cold War Kids was just here in Minneapolis on last month .

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS

Here is another super popular group: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

I previously covered them when they played here last year at the Cabooze. The band is returning to the Cabooze this June 26th. Expect the show to sell out, as it did last year.

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros just kicked off their North American tour last night to support their new self-titled album, coming out July 23, 2013, via Community Music. Singer Alex Ebert said that this new album is so special to him: “These songs mean everything to me. It’s the rawest, most liberated, most rambunctious stuff we’ve done.”

Check out “Better Days”:

Dates with * indicates SOLD OUT.

05/25 – Portland, OR – The Rose Festival 05/26 – Sasquatch Music Festival* 05/28 – Billings, MT – Babcock Theatre 05/29 – Jackson, WY – Pink Garter Theatre* 05/30 – Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden* 06/02 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheater* 06/04 – Council Bluffs, IA – Stir Cove 06/05 – Des Moines, IA – Simon Estes Riverfront 06/07 – Pittsburgh, PA – Three Rivers Arts Fest 06/08 Governors Ball Music Festival 06/09 – Portland, ME – State Theatre* 06/11 – Shelburne, VT – The Green 06/12 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis* 06/15 – Atlanta, GA – Candler Park (FREE) 06/13 – 06/16 – Bonnaroo Music Festival 06/18 – Chattanooga, TN – Track 29 06/19 – Knoxville, TN – Bijour Theatre 06/21 – Norfolk VA – The Norva

06/21 – 6/23 Firefly Music Festival 06/24 – Kalamazoo, MI – Kalamazoo State 06/25 – Minneapolis, MN – Cabooze 06/26 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest 06/28 – Old St. Pat’s Church Block Party 06/29 – Kansas City, KS – Kanrocksas 07/27 – Floyd, VA – Floydfest 08/01 – Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan 08/04 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl 08/17 – Sterling Heights, MI – Mo Pop Festival 08/23 – Simcoe, ON – Gentleman of the Road* 08/29 – Kennett Square, PA – Longwood 08/30 – Troy, OH – Troy Memorial* 09/01 – Aspen, CO – Snowmass 09/06 – Guthrie, OK – Cottonwood Flats * 09/07-09/08 – St. Louis, MO – Loufest 09/13 – St. Augustine, FL – Francis Field* 09/27 – 9/28 – Southern Ground Music Festival

ATLAS GENIUS

Atlas Genius is on its way back to Minneapolis for the third time on June 4, this time playing a sold out show at the Fine Line. The Australian brothers Keith and Michael Jeffery are rounding up a series of U.S. tours before heading back to Australia for just-announced tour dates in July. With impossibly catchy songs like “Trojan” and “If So” they’re the type of band you’ve heard even if you haven’t heard of them just yet. Their second album “When it was Now” released early this year and is available on iTunes.

HOLY GHOST!

How luck are Holy Ghost!???? The Brooklyn-based synthpop duo will be the special guests of New Order when they tour the U.S. this summer.

While the band is getting ready for their upcoming sophomore album, Dynamics, you can still get their 2011 “classic pop” self-titled album, which is out now.

On tour: