[1] the national, at sasquatch this summer

The National ^[2] were far and away one of my favorite sets at Sasquatch this summer, probably because I didn’t believe that their whiskey-drenched epics could actually sound great outside. Thanks to low hanging clouds, a broken down van, and sunset I was proven insufficiently imaginative. They’ll be back in Seattle in September. Ywith Menomena (who sometimes travel with a big choir, other times with a giant saxophone to fill-in the laptop collages from their records) in support of midwest farmers whose crops were damaged by massive floods this summer. There’s a presale for the 19 September show running now [ticketmaster ^[3]]; the password, “coopsrock” refers to the Cooperative Disaster Relief Fund ^[4], but in general, co-ops do rock.

Another thing that rocks: the t-shirt tie-in fundraiser for the Obama campaign referencing their “Mr. November”. [# ^[5]]