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Sasquatch! Poses Possible Coachella Threat

R.E.M., the Cure, and the Flaming Lips have all been tapped for this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival. Set to jump off on the weekend of May 24 at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, WA, the rather stacked bill also includes the National, Built to Spill, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Battles, the Breeders, the Hives, Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie, M.I.A., and Crudo, a new Mike Patton/Dan the Automator collaboration. To make things extra interesting, the Lips will be performing a "U.F.O. show" (featuring a flying saucer!) and premiering their long-delayed Christmas on Mars film.

Discounted Sasquatch! Tickets go on sale March 8. They'll then be raised twice: two days later and the week of the fest. More info can be found at http://sasquatchfestival.com/2008.

The full lineup:

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

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
02.26.08