The line-up for this year’s Sasquatch! festival has been announced! Go check their website. I’m playing on Sunday May 30th. Tickets go on sale Feb 20th.

Here’s an anecdote about Sasquatch: back when I was DJing for Kanye we played this festival in May of 2005. Kanye was just a few weeks away from finishing Late Registration. I hadn’t seen him in a while because he had been in the studio for so long. He was working on “Golddigger” and felt like testing it out live that day even though it wasn’t quite finished. I knew the song before it was recorded. Now that it was coming together, I told him I wanted to lay some scratches. I said “I want to scratch on ‘Get down!’ in that part where you say ‘get down girl, go ‘head get down’.” To prove my point, when we performed the song live (for the first time, with no rehearsal) I grabbed the sample and tried that scratch in front of this festival crowd of thousands. Kanye liked it, we flew to LA a few days later and the rest is history. Check my post from 2005 that shows a pic of the festival followed by a pic of me, Ye and Jon Brion in the studio.