The 2009 Sasquatch! Music Festival recently announced their lineup for the event coming up May 23rd – May 25th. I checked out the site and it is so littered with awesomeness that I couldn't resist blogging about it.

The list is quite extensive: The artwork above is done by one of my favorite design/illustration studios, Seattle-based Invisible Creature. And if you visit the site and click the little TV on the right, the extremely well-done animation that ensues is done by JD Hooge & Gridplane, friend of the Cubans and Portland natives. And the list of performers includes not only awesome musicians, but comedians too! I love me some stand-up comedy! Some of the musicians that leapt out at me include: Kings of Leon, Silversun Pickups, Gogol Bordello, The Decemberists, Explosions in the Sky, Devotchka and tons more, sprinkled with the comedy radness of Demetri Martin, Zach Galifianakis, and Todd Barry.

My new Portland home (which we are leaving for tomorrow night, woah!) will be relatively close but still 4+ hours away—very tempting! The addition of $50+ per day price tag should keep me away, but I will dream about how rad it would be to go. If you plan to attend, please hold up a lighter/run a circle through the mosh pit/whatever for me!