Treefort Announces 2016 Acts

UPDATED: Second wave of bands includes Built to Spill, Thundercat, Diarrhea Planet and a heap of Portland bands.

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

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