Only two songs into the Long Beach rapper's performance and it was clear that the first big crowd of Sasquatch 2016 belonged to Vince Staples' ferocious sunset slot, Dressed in his usual onstage uniform of black pants and a white "Street Justice: Have A Taste", Staples breathlessly ran through cuts from his instant-classic debut Summertime '06 at a workmanlike pace for close twenty minutes, barely stopping to make his now-trademark onstage quips. (The man's Twitter feed is a veritable gold mine of quotables.) Staples has been running through this set since last summer and he's only gotten tighter, expanding the back half of his set with older cuts and his more recent collaborations (His locktight Flume collab "Smoke and Retribution" was the perfect balance to his riotous opening numbers.) Not unlike Haim in 2014 or Run The Jewels in 2015, Vince Staples is this year's undercard staple (sorry) that every festival should have, because there's no one else on the road right now who can quite pack as much fury and revelry into one relentless hour.
Save for the jam band-heavy lineup of the festival's inaugural year – it's weird to think about now, but in the early 2000s, jam bands were as prominent at festivals as EDM is now – Sasquatch has long been an indie rock heavy festival, and even though this year's lineup is slightly less heavy on gu…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra has not slowed down since releasing the spectacular 2015 album, Multi-Love. The band has been on an ambitious world tour since the release of the album, and solved many people’s first world problem of a lack of new UMO music last week by releasing a new single. Aptly title…
Next month we celebrate the 20th birthday of High/Low, the timeless full-length debut from New York indie rock stalwarts Nada Surf. The band celebrated the milestone in great fashion, reissuing the record on beautiful orange vinyl through Vinyl Me Please and giving it a fantastic packaging makeover…
