Sasquatch! in 2015.
Sasquatch! in 2015. photo via Billboard

Can't make it to the Sasquatch! music festival this weekend? Don't cry, Bigfoot (your wet fur smells worse than a damp dog anyway) because it's going to be livestreamed on Yahoo. Performances from the fest's two larger stages will be shown at this link right here, and they'll include sets by M83, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, Lord Huron, Ty Segall and the Muggers, plus Alabama and some band called Shakes! [CORRECTION: Oh they mean Alabama Shakes; unfortunately country legends Alabama will NOT be at Sasquatch:( ] It's the first livestream in the Northwest music festival's history, and it'll kick off tomorrow night at 6 pm.

How do the countries of Europe stack up when it comes to metal bands? This map of metal bands per capita has been making the rounds, and—no surprise—Finland is crushing it. (What is surprising? Andorra has metal bands, apparently.) This map requires some advanced geography knowledge as the country shapes don't seem to be labeled.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' street team got a little overzealous with some promo graffiti on the St. Johns Bridge, it seems, and created a little bit of an uproar. Sharpe, whose real name is Ebert, took full responsibility; WW has the deets.

Definitely read this article from the Guardian, which tells the tale behind the new Space Echo compilation, out tomorrow on the Analog Africa label. Seems a literal boatload of synthesizers washed up onshore at Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa, in the early '70s, and the instruments were dispersed throughout the island nation, resulting in a marriage of traditional and futuristic music. A healthy dose of skepticism might be required to fully buy into this story—the boat's crew apparently vanished without a trace, which seems difficult to do, and when the ship departed New York in 1968 synthesizers were still basically the size of small rooms—but it's a fascinating read nevertheless.