Shut out of Coachella? You might want to consider a road trip to the Pacific

Northwest.

The Sasquatch! Music Festival goes

off Memorial Day Weekend at the Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington, featuring some

of the heavy hitters (Bjork, the Arcade Fire, Manu Chao, Interpol) who are playing

Coachella in late April.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 3. They are $55 per day for the on-sale

weekend and $65 thereafter. Camping and VIP packages are available too. The full lineup

(expect additions) for the three-stage event:

Saturday, May 26: Bjork, the Arcade Fire, Manu Chao, M.I.A., Citizen

Cope, Neko Case, the Hold Steady, Grizzly Bear, Ghostland Observatory, Electrelane, Two

Gallants, the Slip, Loney Dear, Aqueduct, the Thermals, Viva Voce the Blow and Gabriel

Teodros.

Sunday, May 27: Beastie Boys, Interpol, Michael Franti &

Spearhead, Spoon, Bad Brains, Ozomatli, the Dandy Warhols, the Black Angels, Mirah,

Tokyo Police Club, Money Mark, St. Vincent, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter,

Smoosh, Common Market, the Helio Sequence and Minus the Bear.

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Tonight’s touts: There’s not a lot of straight-on prog rock going

round these days, but L.A.’s Opus Dai,

whose album "Tierra Tragame" from last year embraced the genre in all its

sprawling glory, does prog well. The quartet headlines the Roxy. … Singer-songwriter

Matt Wertz plays the Troubadour. … DJs

extraordinaire Aurelito & Shakespeare host the Chocolate Bar party to inaugurate

the Ex Plex, the new 700-capacity room located beneath the Echo. … The Good Listeners, great last week at

the Scene in Glendale, return to the venue where they did a residency last year,

Tangier. … And a side project of Irving, Afternoons, debuts at El Cid.