Day 2 really tired me out, after three nights in a cold tent, I decided the schedule wasn’t essential enough until around 3pm, so I stayed back at the campsite and tried to recharge my strength for the evening. Being a mostly indie rock day with the bands scheduled, I really just tried to make who I knew or had heard of. The majority of the bands before 3pm were not of these two goals, though because of the line I did miss Drive By Truckers… Meh.

Day 2 of Sasquatch, the most dance-oriented lineup of the weekend, was an early start for me because for some reason the organizers put Caribou’s set at 12:05. I had missed them when they played the day before I left in Portland, so I needed to see their show from what my Brooklyn friends claimed. So I pulled myself out of the tent, made an amazing breakfast of egg and cheese sandwiches, packed a lunch and headed off. I slipped right in though security with little trouble and headed straight over to the main stage to literally catch them as they went on stage. The band severely impressed the crowd, which was quite large for such an early set. Their dual drumming attack and overall talent of the band blew the crowd away.

The Pacific Northwest’s great annual music festival kicked off again this past Memorial Day weekend at the Gorge, three hours East of Seattle, WA. While there was a wide range of musical acts included this year as always, 2010’s lineup was significantly angled more towards the indie crowd, a far cry from the nostalgia acts [...]