Wolf Alice closed out their American tour at Sasquatch! Music Festival Friday night, leaving all venues in their rear-view in flames. The Yeti Stage was no different, as the group alternated between the heavy dissonance of their squealing guitars and the angelic pop-hooks of lead woman Ellie Roswell. The London group that started as a folk-pop two piece, took their name form an Angela Chamber story, which put a dark twist on classic fairy tales. The group lives up to their namesake, twisting dark, grimy sounds with catchy vocal cadences. It’s a sound that feels more than comfortable in the birth-state of grunge with their grimy spin on brit glam-pop, and the reactions they generated from the crowd were more than homely. As the band left the stage with the ringing melody of “Moana Lisa Smile” still in the background to a raucous crowd, it was clear Sasquatch! had served as a fitting American send off for the band.
Disclosure is not a new face to Sasquatch! Music Festival, having played the El Chupacabra stage in 2013. Since then they’ve garnered worldwide fame and accolades and influenced the sound of pop music as a whole. So when their 2015 release Caracal was not received with as much universal praise as t…
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…
