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Sasquatch 2011: Death From Above 1979, Live In Concert

NPR | By Stephen Thompson
Published May 28, 2011 at 12:44 PM EDT
Death From Above 1979 performs at the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival.
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Death From Above 1979 performs at the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival.

Language Advisory: This is a live concert recording, and may not contain language suitable for all audiences.

Death From Above 1979 has a pretty stormy history for a band with only two guys: The Toronto-based dance-rock duo of Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger has already gone through a lengthy hiatus — the pair split up in 2006 and re-formed just this year — as well as a name change brought about via a legal battle with the record label DFA. But Death From Above 1979 formally reunited in February, and is set to storm an impressive assortment of summer festivals.

Recorded live at The Gorge on Friday, May 27, Death From Above 1979 helps kick off the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival outside Seattle, Wash.

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Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
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