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The Quadstock XXI Lineup
Tokyo Police Club
After Ontario four-piece Tokyo Police Club’s first EP grabbed the indie blogosphere’s attention, the basement band was quickly picked up for Pop Montreal festival and ended up romping around the globe a few times before even releasing a full-length record. And once they finally did release it, “Elephant Shell” debuted at the top of Billboard’s Heatseekers charts in 2008, ringing something like Death Cab for Cutie shot up with British garage bands.
No doubt this year’s Quadstock headliner is one of the most high-profile acts to play this campus, and the rest of the summer has them playing a handful of shows in Europe and touring with Passion Pit.
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Dan Deacon
Armed with only a handful of electronic gadgets and his trademark “trippy green skull,” Dan Deacon will bring his Wham City jams to Seattle U for the 21st annual Quadstock.
A classically-trained composer and producer of futuristic, energy-centric electropop, Deacon has built up a reputation for getting bodies moving on the dance floor. His music rarely slows to less than 150 beats-per-minute, and all of his songs sound like cartoon theme songs shot through with vocoder and heart attack-inducing levels of caffeine.
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Hey Marseilles
Since the last time Hey Marseilles played on campus in February, the band did played their first shows on the east coast, hit Canadian Music Fest in Toronto and was name-dropped on NPR for a performance at South by Southwest.
Hey Marseilles stands out from the rest of the Northwest’s too-hip folk acts and growing pasture of cerebral chamber pop orchestras, not only in their complex fusion of sounds but simply because they have more fun than the rest. The seven of them show their own goofy camaraderie, and they get the audience involved, too.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Hip-hop has long been a Quadstock staple, and this year’s event will continue the trend of bringing great MCs to campus with hometown heroes Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
Born and raised on Capitol Hill, Macklemore is a local hip-hop legend with an undeniable talent for wordplay and a dazzling stage presence. He’s the kind of artist who opens shows and upstages headliners with his thumping beats and powerful lyrics. His flow is smooth but fierce, his rhymes are tight and pointed, and his sets are always high-octane.
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Beehive
David Miller of Beehive describes their live set as “octopus arms going crazy." He’ll move between bass, drums, slide guitar, while Alethea “Butterfly Beats” plays keyboard, controls a laptop and might whip out a harmonica.
But the band’s sound itself has their hands in a number of genres’ honey pots, combing together a seamless sound of seemingly opposite entities. Glossy vocals from both band members weave like a ribbon into twitchy electro beats and brazen guitar, with layers of live, organic sounds atop pristine programming.
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