MUSIC FESTIVAL MANIA

Oh dear. Music festivals in the US seems to really be the thing nowadays especially when you see Madonna performing at one of them. SXSW, Coachella, Sasquatch, and the Lollapalooza Tour-turned-Music Festival that are all becoming more and more popular as the bands that are playing at some of them are becoming more and more mainstream. Coachella happening in SoCal, Sasquatch up in the Northwest, and Lollapalooza in Chicago.

COACHELLA (4/29-4/30) in Indio, CA

SATURDAY APRIL 29, 2006

Depeche Mode
Daft Punk
Franz Ferdinand
Sigur Ros
Damian Jr Gong Marley
Common
Atmosphere
Carl Cox
My Morning Jacket
TV on the Radio
Ladytron
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Tosca
Cat Power
Animal Collective
HARD-Fi
Derrick Carter
Devendra Banhart
She Wants Revenge
The Walkmen
The Juan Maclean
Imogen Heap
Audio Bullys
Lady Sovereign
Deerhoof
The Duke Spirit
Eagles of Death Metal
Lyrics Born
The New Amsterdams
The Zutons
Platinum Pied Pipers
White Rose Movement
Chris Liberator
Colette
Joey Beltram
Hybrid
Living Things
Wolfmother
The Like
Nine Black Alps
Celebration
The Section Quartet
Shy FX & T Power
Infusion

SUNDAY APRIL 30, 2006

Tool
Massive Attack
Madonna
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bloc Party
Paul Oakenfold
Scissor Sisters
Matisyahu
James Blunt
Sleater-Kinney
Mogwai
Coheed and Cambria
Wolf Parade
Gnarls Barkley
Phoenix
Coldcut
Digable Planets
Amadou & Mariam
Louie Vega
Mylo (DJ Set)
Seu Jorge
Ted Leo & Pharmacists
The Go! Team
Kaskade
Metric
Editors
Art Brut
Dungen
The Dears
Jamie Lidell
The Magic Numbers
Los Amigos Invisibles
Jazzanova
stellastarr
Michael Mayer
Murs featuring 9th wonder
Mates of State
Gilles Peterson
Infadels
Gabriel & Dresden
The Subways
Minus the Bear
OneRepublic
Be Your Own Pet
Youth Group
Giant Drag
Kristina Sky
The Octopus Project

SASQUATCH (5/26-5/28) in George, WA

Friday, May 26

Nine Inch Nails
Bauhaus
HIM
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Wolfmother

Saturday, May 27

Mainstage:
BEN HARPER & The Innocent Criminals
The Flaming Lips
The Shins
The Tragically Hip
Neko Case
Iron & Wine
Sufjan Stevens
Gomez
Rogue Wave

Wookie:
Sam Roberts
Constantines
Architecture In Helsinki
Bedouin Soundclash
Matt Costa
The Brunettes

Yeti:
Tim Seely
Korby Lenker
Common Market
Slender Means
more artists to be announced

Sunday, May 28

Mainstage:
Beck
Death Cab For Cutie
Queens of the Stone Age
Matisyahu
The Decemberists
Nada Surf
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Blue Scholars

Wookie:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Arctic Monkeys
We Are Scientists
Chad Vangaalen
The Heavenly States

Yeti:
Rocky Votolato
Laura Veirs
Mercir
The Village Green
Headphones
more artists to be announced

LOLLAPALOOZA (8/4-8/6) in Chicago, IL

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kanye West
Manu Chao
Wilco
Death Cab For Cutie
The Raconteurs
The Flaming Lips
Ween
Queens of the Stone Age
The Shins
Common
Matisyahu
Ryan Adams
Umphrey's McGee
Sonic Youth
Thievery Corporation
Sleater-Kinney
Nickel Creek
Blues Traveler
Broken Social Scene
The New Pornographers
Iron & Wine
Poi Dog Pondering
The Secret Machines
Eels
Panic! At the Disco
The Disco Biscuits
Reverend Horton Heat
The Smoking Popes
Andrew Bird
Gnarls Barkley
Stars
Cursive
Blackalicious
Editors
Lyrics Born
Lady Sovereign
Calexico
Nada Surf
Feist
Aqualung
The Frames
The Hold Steady
The Go! Team
Mates of State
Pepper
Particle
The Redwalls
Mute Math
Wolfmother
Sparta
The Subways
Of Montreal
Blue October
Jeremy Enigk
Living Things
Sound Team
The M's
Hot Chip
The Benevento-Russo Duo
Matt Costa
The New Amsterdams
deadboy & the Elephantmen
Sybris
Anathallo
The Burden Brothers
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Manishevitz
Husky Rescue
The Towers of London
Ohmega Watts
Boy Kill Boy
Jim Noir
The Standard
Be Your Own Pet
Elvis Perkins
Trevor Hall
Midlake

and more to come...