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Here it is u guyz… Winnie Cooper’s Sasquatch! 2011 review! Words by Dolly Compton.

TOP TEN SHOWS:
• MSTRKRFT
• Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
• Sleigh Bells
• The Antlers
• Ratatat
• White Arrows
• Foster the People
• !!!
• Das Racist
• Matt and Kim

DAY 1 FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS:
DFA 1979: I had to keep myself from headbanging too hard so my neck wouldn’t be too sore for the rest of the weekend.
Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl is a modern icon, and he brought out Bob Mould from Hüsker Dü who shredded like he’d risen from hell.

DAY 2 SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS:
Aloe Blacc: I need a dollar…
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The Antlers: Fantastic performance in broad daylight! The sunshine made their set more powerful and surreal than they’ve been at indoors venues in the past.

Washed Out: Ernest Greene tapped into the house market with a booming four-to-the-floor that overpowered the twinkling melodies and pillow-talk vocals.
The Glitch Mob: 3 iPad nerds geeking out on some heavy synth and drum machine apps and putting on a better show than Bassnectar (due2power)

Matt and Kim: They sampled every hip hop great and Kim did a handstand while shaking her booty like you would not believe.

Sleigh Bells: Alexis Krauss is the hottest bitch on the planet! Combining everything you could want: bangin’ beats and metal.

Robyn: Sasquatch! 2011 had so many amazing female performers. Robyn ate a banana on stage and, as one of my friends put it, was dancing “like she was from another planet.”

DAY 3 SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS:

Beach House: Another female babe, Victoria Legrand commanded the hearts of every girl and the loins of every boy in the audience. It was sunny and beautiful during their set and I wept during “Take Care.”

Cold War Kids: My friends were passed out drunk in front of City and Colour so I went to the mainstage where Cold War Kids were surprisingly great!
Flogging Molly: Everyone caught a second wind for this set and jumped around dancing to Irish punk.

Das Racist: They pulled off the best audience interaction all weekend, making people choose between laughing and dancing. A white girl in a red bikini flashed them and Dap told her to “Eat something.”

Gold Panda: Money set in the Banana Shack dance tent. Expected nothing less.

Flying Lotus: A huge crowd came for Flying Lotus and you could tell he was just as stoked as they were.

MSTRKRFT: #FrenchHouse! I felt like I couldn’t dance hard enough for how good this show was.

Ratatat: Amazing visuals. They had a giant 3-D parrot that was hanging out on the side of the stage. The audience all looked like they were having out of body experiences.

DAY 4 MONDAY HIGHLIGHTS:
Black Mountain: Vancouver’s own! Dark, dance-able rock. So so good.
White Arrows: All these guys are babes. The crowd quadrupled during their set.
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings: Soul good on the mainstage. Sharon wore a royal blue flapper dress and had everyone on their feet getting down to soul jams like this or this.

Foster the People: Every Sasquatch bro’s summer anthem
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!!! (“Chk Chk Chk”): Lead singer Nic Offer was gyrating like Prince, strutting into the crowd to ham and steal the audience’s clothing. Glad I saw it!
Skrillex: Dub-step sweetheart Skrillex opened the door from a room of brostep euphoria LFOs into some hallways of dnb roots, dancehall, and not enough French house.

Major Lazer: Diplo and Switch ended Sasquatch! 2011 with a rager in the dance tent, narrowly avoiding a bum-rush after inviting ten girls onstage, and telling the audience that they were going to “F*ck everybody.”

THE ONE TO WATCH:
DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid: Portland bollyhood DJs who played an unprecedented all four days! Catch them in Portland before they get too big!

NAUGHTY LIST:
Yeasayer: Somewhere along the line these guys decided they wanted to be a boring indie rock band. They played mostly their new album with a neutered version of “O.N.E.” and you could tell they were bored. At least change your name if you’re going to be a completely different band.
Best Coast: Expectedly sarcastic, unexpectedly boring.

Back in Vancouver for a few days now. I have almost recovered. Slept for 12hours last night. Think i’m getting sick. I miss Austin, drinking all day, sleeping little and most of all “being shitty” which we decided the upside down peace sign is the international symbol for. Spread the good word.

Apologies to anyone who wasn’t at SXSW that I pissed off with my drunk tweets.  Thank god, I had my camera and my twitter account or I would have no idea what happened.

Without further adoo-doo.

Day 1. PS I Love You (Kingston, ON) at Canada House.

PS I Love You – 2012

Our cab driver didn’t know where to get any green but he did have MCat. That was a highlight of our trip.  It was particularly nice for James Blake (UK).

James Blake – Limit To Your Love (Tanzlife edit)

Cecil of Gobble Gobble (san fran / Edmonton).

Gobble Gobble – Where is My Mind (Pixies Blasphemy)

Gold Panda – You (UK)

Wolf Gang (far left and middle)(No relation to Odd Future). They are from England and are pretty chill bros.

Wolf Gang – Back To Back (Active Child Remix)

Wolf Gang – Dancing With The Devil (Outer Limits Recordings’ Coco Bongo Club remix)

DAY 2. Hot Panda (Vancouver) at Sxsw Olio, Mint Records, Music Waste Showcase. Oh man their bass player is talented / h h hot.  p p  p please do us show with us in Vancouver Hot Panda.

Hot Panda – Mindlessnesslessness

Grimes (Montreal) at the Olio, Music Waste, Mint Records showcase @ Headhunters. I still havn’t heard back about my marriage proposal to Grimes via twitter. Still open. ooo gawd.

Grimes – Feyd Rautha Dark Heart (karnheartrevisit)

Bikini (Victoria / New York) at Headhunters.

Bikini – ACheerleader

Bikini – ((())) _ Diamond’s Departure

Humans (Vancouver) @ 7-11. Yes we have 7-11′s in Canada. They don’t sell booze though.  I think this is some unreleased new Humans. Hopefully I don’t get in trouble for posting it.

Humans – Way It Happens

Black Lips (Atlanta) at a Vice party.

Black Lips – Bad Kids

DAY 3. HotTub (Oakland) at Palm Door. These guys are like on some Salt n Peppa tip.  Lol. They have a song about 4loko.

Hottub – 1-2-3-GO!

Hottub – HOTTUB (FOUR) LOKOS ONLY MOCHIPET REMIX

Miracle Fortress (Montreal).  (Not the sunglasses bro, he’s alright though)

Miracle Fortress – Maybe Lately

Miracle Fortress – Digital Love (Daft Punk Cover)

Quadron. This Danish duo were amazing.  Soul.  In Vancovuer April 12th.

Quadron – Average Fruit (10.4 Rogs Gradeschool Crush Version)

Quadron – Baby Be Mine (Michael Jackson Cover)

Quadron – Slippin

Skrillex (L.A.) was one of the most intense / fun shows I saw. Duhbbstephhhin.

Skrrillex – Do Da Oliphant

Class Actress (Brooklyn).

Class Actress – Journal Of Ardency

@tristanorchard “Dude. These kids are killing in the back yard. ? R tehy? http://t.co/Nmwrl1u” OMG they were tight and I don’t mean their buttholes. From NY via Arizona.

The Young Friends – I Wont Break Your Heart

The Young Friends – Downtown

I blogged about these guys a while back. It was pretty cool to watch them and find out who they were.  Dead Gaze (Mississippi)

Dead Gaze – This Big World

Eric our new friend from San Fran who works for Intel.

DAY 4. Big Freedia (New Orleans) at the Mess With Texas tent.  Right before everyone jumped on stage and some drunk guy pulled down his pants and showed his peen for a long ass time.

Big Freedia – Get Back

Had to jump the fence to get backstage and then sneak past security to hang off the scaffolding backstage for Odd Future (L.A.).  Some girls started fighting next to me for position and were pulling each others hair.  Diddy showed up and was hanging out backstage.  I swear he looked at me hanging of the scaffolding like a douche with my camera and gave me a lil wink, like, “Never give up kid”. Awesome. Tried to follow him to find the Kanye West penthouse party but I swear he disappeared into thin air. Might of been a hologram.

Tyler The Creator – Yonkers

Tyler The Creator – Sandwitches

Fave chill bro, Teen Daze (Vancouver) at Soho.

Teen Daze – Together

Basketball (Vancouver) at Soho.

Basketball – Suspiros de Chile

Jamie XX (London) at Barcelona.  I told my friend Becky to go ask a guy standing next to the bassbin if he was Jamie XX. Totally was! NBD right. Swoon. Too bad she lost her voice.

FaltyDL – Hip Love (Jamie XX Remix)

Vancouver peeps at an after party on the last night.

DAY 5. Last day. Hanging out in a field at a school killing time before flights home with the roommates. Party pain. Can you tell who went to bed the earliest / is the most responsible?

Stay tuned for the video footage. Just say no kids.

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We have some photos from our NO MORE STRANGERS show last Saturday with Gobble Gobble, Slam Dunk & DBL Dragon via The Futurists.

Also, “the” Steve Louie was there with his camera.

Tony X of Half Alive and Needles and Pins has a new photoblog.  Just as the title suggests it is quite pleasant and makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

http://surfingonheroin.tumblr.com/

The best No More Strangers yet.  All our favorite people in one night.  Video footage to follow.  Big thank yous to Boogie Monster, Babe Rainbow (apparently Cam Reed’s first live show ever), Gang Violence and Basketball. If you haven’t seen Basketball yet, you have a couple more chances, Oct 27th and Dec 2nd with the Japandroids (bad ass) before they once again deprive us and head back to Europe / Barcelona. Next level Gypsy rave isht that will blow your mind. Seriously (no jokes)

No More Strangers, October 10th 2009 with Basketball, Gang Violence, Babe Rainbow & Boogie Monster photos

Photos by Adam Koebel - “I heard “I feel like I am on acid.” at least five separate times.  I think these photos may have captured that.”

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So their album is really great and all that stuff, but both times I’ve seen Grizzly Bear’s live set I almost had a little nap between the other concertgoer’s feet.

Maybe it’s just too soothing, or maybe the Commodore’s velvet curtains reminds me of the womb or maybe it was because it was tuessday, but I found myself battling to focus my attention on the stage and not the neon-clad young woman behind me who was whining “I thought you said they were ELECTRO” to her sheepish boyfriend.

They are signed to electronic label “Warp Records,” which I guess could be confusing, if you were really dumb.
It definitely wasn’t a sold out show, but there were enough people there to result in the Commodores infamous “floor of broken glass” from people just dropping their empty cups when they were finished. Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste seemed pleased with the crowd’s enthusiasm because he said he “couldn’t believe this was a Tuesday night crowd.” Their voices are super dreamy, and “Knife” got people really into the show for a bit, but I still prefer listening to them while eating toast at home.

Another thing that may have tainted my listening experience was the fact I got a nerd injury before the show (some sweet carpal tunnel in my right hand from using my keyboard too much), so at the show I couldn’t really take legible notes, and I couldn’t hold a beer. The only thing I could do was make some left handed stick drawings to give you a feel for the show.

Photos are up from the last No More Strangers.  We do it again this Saturday w/ Vancouver’s current “much talked about” buzz band, Makeout Videotape and Candles!

Photos are up from our last No More Strangers party with Keytar Warrior & Sex Party.

Next one is on Saturday with the SSRI’s & Nihilist Party!

I want to send a big shout out to the Local Natives and The Union Line for coming out and playing at our birthday party! It was a blast.

The next, NO MORE STRANGERS party is on May 9th, we have Garland and Yarn playing.  More to follow!

Photos here

Chromeo @ Fabric + Afterparty @ The Bourbon – 4/10/07

There are some new (old) photos up in Winnie’s Photo section from a Chromeo show and after-party in Vancouver from last October.  

Also some W.C. “fan” video from the concert.  I had forgotten how many girls were at this show, there was like 4 to 1 and the same thing again for their date here in April.  It must be all that talk about romance or something? 

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Chip Pop @ The Media Club 4/13/08

One of the new features of our blog is going to be a photo section!  

Its still under wraps now as we get everything html a-ok.  To tie you all over, the first installment of it is up here.  The pictures are from a Yo Majesty! & Does it Offend You, Yeah? show here in Vancouver this past Wednesday.  

Shunda K of Yo Majesty! had to do the show solo after Jwl. B wasn’t allowed into the country.  The concert was also competing with Buck 65 & Cadence Weapon show a few blocks away but Shunda still delivered to the delight of myself and the other fans there.  

I managed to hear a lot of the groups new album after the show and what I heard blew me away.  Stay tuned as i’m trying to get some snipets from some of the new material up on the site.  It definately wasn’t what I had expected, there’s quite a diverse range of songs from party stompers to ballads and the production is tight.  Watch out for the groups continued effort of saving hip hop with their new album set for an August release.  

Look for a lot more photo updates with past events soon and a revamped photo section (the photo section link doesn’t do much now).

This track was up at our old site Versus but it still bangs yo.

Yo Majesty – Kryptonite Pussy (UMYO Remix)