8th Sasquatch! Music Festival Includes Jane’s Addiction and More…

Live Nation and Adam Zacks announced the line-up for the 8th Sasquatch! Music Festival, which is set to take place May 23rd to May 25th, 2009, at the Gorge in Quincy, Washington.

Jane’s Addiction will headline with their first major show reuniting all four original band members. They are planning to tour this summer with Nine Inch Nails who is another guest of Sasquatch!

The line-up for the three-day camping festival on Memorial Day weekend includes:

Kings of Leon
Ben Harper & Relentless7
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Erykah Badu
TV On The Radio
Animal Collective
Silversun Pickups
Bon Iver
Santigold
Of Montreal
Explosions In The Sky
Devotchka
Peter Bjorn & John
Gogol Bordello
M. Ward
The Avett Brothers
Doves
Calexico
Grizzly Bear
M83
Girl Talk
The Gaslight Anthem
The Walkmen
Chromeo (dj set)
Deadmau5
Mugison
Sun Kil Moon
Airborne Toxic Event
Shearwater
BLK JKS
The Wrens
Tobacco
Monotonix
King Khan & The Shrines
St. Vincent
Passion Pit
John Vanderslice
Bishop Allen
AA Bondy
Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Knux
Ra Ra Riot
The Dodos
Beach House
The Submarines
Owl City
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele
School of Seven Bells
Death Vessel

The festival also features a plethora of Pacific Northwest local bands. Set to attend are:

The Decemberists
Fleet Foxes
Vince Mira
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
Point Juncture, WA
The Builders and the Butchers
The Dutchess & the Duke
The Pica Beats
Arthur & Yu
Horse Feathers
Loch Lomond
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Blitzen Trapper
Blind Pilot
Hockey
Fences
James Pants and Viva Voce

The Comedy line-up includes:

Zach Galifiankas
Demetri Martin
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job
Todd Barry
Jon Benjamin
God’s Pottery
People’s Republic of Komedy

In the past, it has featured such artists as Coldplay, MIA, Kanye West

The Sasquatch! festival has partnered with 1-800-QUIT-NOW for five consecutive years. This is a movement that has helped more than 105,000 people quit smoking. It has also teamed up with Esurance and Sustainable Energy Partners for three years, hoping to provide a carbon neutral music festival.

Tickets go on sale February 28th at 10 am. For the largest discount purchase before March 1st. You can find out more information at Ticketmaster and the Sasquatch Homepage..