HEY LADIES! This is a quick snapshot of my two favorite female-fronted groups performing at this year's Sasquatch festival:

Little Dragon


Yukimi Nagano's sultry voice plucked straight from a neo-soul record and parachuting down into the midst of a video game soundtracked by SBTRKT. Yeah, just like that. The music moves with a low-key electro bounce and Nagano writes catchy, sexy hooks and sings like the intergalactic love child of Macy Gray and Erykah Badu. Soul tunes for space aliens.

Tune-Yards

I refuse to write the band name as it is meant to be written, capitalizing every other letter like a hyperventilating 14 year old girl. However, the music is undeniably brilliant. Tune-Yards is the brainchild of Merrill Garbus. She uses ukulele, floor tom and her substantial voice to create loops which spiral into polyrhythmic madness. Her vocals are afrobeat inspired and fearless, she bellows and shouts, one moment coarse and the next ephemeral and elegant. An uninhibited performer that carries on with childlike glee that is infectious.