It didn't take long for Merchandise frontman Carson Cox's dry sense of humor to set in with his band's Saturday afternoon crowd. "So we're from Florida," he deadpanned. "Can you believe it?" On a hot afternoon, the hazy qualities of Merchandise's music were brought to the forefront, an effect that might have been augmented by some substances in the crowd. ("I hear the green is good in Washington State. I'm talking about drugs. That is what this song is about. Drugs.") Now a quartet, Merchandise's new configuration didn't allow Cox to move around far from his guitar or keyboard, but when he did, he swayed his way through "Little Killer" and other highlights from last year's After The End on the Bigfoot stage's catwalk. What started as a sparsely started affair ended up as a fairly well-attended, dance-friendly set, and no one know that more than Cox. "We've got two songs left," he said with a slight pause. "But they're really fucking long."
Sylvan Esso was one of 2014's biggest and most unlikely sleeper successes, and now the left-turn electronic side project from two North Carolina folk veterans has entered 2015 as one of festival season's can't miss midcard staples, and it's clear to see why. Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn's spartan …
Anyone who's read any music journalism over the last six months already knows this, but Sleater-Kinney spent the first half of this year coming back with a fantastic new record and a ferocious live show. However, Sasquatch was their first (of two) festival headlining slots, so until Friday, it had …
