Geez, is it festival announcement season already?
Apparently, as Boise's Treefort Music Festival has rolled out its first slate of 60-some acts. Soul screamer Charles Bradley, garage vets Thee Oh Sees, goth enchantress Chelsea Wolfe, hometown hero Youth Lagoon, nu-grass jammers Leftover Salmon and underground rap cult heroes Aesop Rock and Rob Swift are among the top-of-bill highlights.
Although it takes place in Idaho, operating like a stripped-down South By Southwest, in four years the festival has established itself as a kind of showcase for emerging music from all over the Pacific Northwest, and Portland in particular. Other than Aesop Rock—a recent Portland transplant—local acts include Radiation City, Mimicking Birds, Lee Corey Oswald, Esme Patterson and, somehow, Mascaras, which must mean drummer Papi Fimbres, who's currently on a yearlong sabbatical in Germany, is coming back to the states, at least for this gig.
The complete lineup (so far) is below. Treefort takes place March 23-27 in downtown Boise. Go here for ticket information.
UPDATED LIST OF ACTS, 1/15:
Built To Spill
Nosaj Thing
Thundercat
J.Phlip
Geographer
Pictureplane
AU
La Luz
Diarrhea Planet
Acid Mothers Temple
Christopher Willits
Y La Bamba
Deep Sea Diver
Prawn
Wimps
Terror Pigeon!
Street Fever
SALES
Ural Thomas & The Pain
Hollow Wood
Tara Brooks
Dance With The Dead
Pimps of Joytime
Naytronix
Mamiffer
Honduras
RUMTUM
Hunny
Thunderpussy
LUZCID w/ Born I
The Dirty Moogs
The Crookes
Chuck Ragan
Great Grandpa
Stonefield
ORQUESTRA PACIFICO TROPICAL
Dude York
Living Hour
Magna Carda
Fog Father
Sly Moon Sutra
Lucy Dacus
Toy Zoo
Cy Dune
C.J. Boyd
El Dopamine
Paper Gates
Point Juncture, WA
Transistor Send
Everyone Is Dirty
BOYS
BAD90s
METH DAD
Unconditional Arms
River Whyless
Thomas Paul
The Easy Leaves
Hang Rounders
Light Thieves
Host
Pat Benolkin
The Western Mystics
Tamar Aphek
Lushlife
MING
The Foreign Resort
Zach Walker
The Roaring 420s
Boyfriends
The Still Tide
Baby Ghosts
J&L Defer
Ned Garthe Explosion
déCollage
Weatherbox
Enemies
Music Band
Ylti
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Naked Giants
Bud Bronson & the Good Timers
Dirty Few
Deep Creeps
The Hand
Sheep Bridge Jumpers
Dark Swallows
Foul Weather
JAWWZZ!!
Joseph Running Crane
E&J (Eleven & DJ Jason D)
Edmond Dantes
My Body
GEMS
HiHazel
Maszer
Get Wet +
Foster Body
Couches
Groggy Bikini
Ingrown
Ghost Tours
Ali Beletic
Bobby Meader Music
Edward Stumpp
Kathleen Williams
Trigger Itch
Prairie
TREEFORT 2016 INITIAL LINEUP:
Acid Dad
Adult Books
Aesop Rock w/Rob Sonic
Alex G
All Dogs
Ancient Psychic
Another Man Out the Window
Bitch'n
Brothers In Law
Bryan John Appleby
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
Chelsea Wolfe
Clarke and the Himselfs
Conan
Cool Ghouls
Crescendo
Culture Abuse
Esmé Patterson
Flaural
Freak Heat Waves
French Horn Rebellion
Go!Zilla
Great Dane
Helvetia
Hinds
Holly Macve
Honey Bucket
Howardian
Leafraker
LED
Lee Corey Oswald
Leftover Salmon
Máscaras
Methyl Ethel
Mild High Club
Mimicking Birds
Motel Radio
Mothers
Mystery Skulls
Oddisee
Play Date
Plum
Porches
Quilt
Radiation City
San Fermin
Self Defense Family
Serial Hawk
SISTERS
So Pitted
Stepbrothers
Strange Wilds
Sun Blood Stories
Tartufi
Thee Oh Sees
The Rich Hands
Thick Business
Vaadat Charigim
Wax Idols
Western Daughter
White Denim
Your Friend
Youth Lagoon
Willamette Week