{This is part two of a three-part Sasquatch! 2012 photo recap. Be sure to check out part one here, and part three here!}

Day three {Sunday} at this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival saw us a bit tired, a bit beat-up from the sun and the hills, and a bit gritty from the seeming "dust bowl" that was starting to kick up and cover everything with a fine dirty mist. But we forged on into the day with high spirits, knowing a slew of good bands were on tap -- and we got things started with an uppy, poppy-tight set from Hospitality and a smooth, sexy, beat-laden set from Fly Moon Royalty. While the two bands hit opposite ends of the sonic spectrum, they both shared the commonality of putting on great performances, each showcasing their respective sounds near-perfectly.

Hospitality:

Fly Moon Royalty:

Then, the rockin' boy-band part of the day got going, with alternating takes from Gardens & Villa, War On Drugs, and Deer Tick. Gardens & Villa were a nice transition from the upbeat Hospitality and played a bright, synth-y dream-sound set and the War On Drugs ramped it up a bit with a bigger, bulkier sound before Deer Tick took the stage and jammed it on out into the rock-o-sphere. It's worth noting that Deer Tick were on the Sasquatch! campus for the remainder of the weekend, and wound up filling the hole in the weekend left by Mogwai (who had visa issues coming into the US) with a covers-only set, bouncing whip-tight renditions of the Replacements and Nirvana out into a thrilled crowd as Monday night started to fade to black.

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As if the upcoming week of shows isn't good enough already -- two nights of Magnetic Fields, Mudhoney at the Tractor, and Nada Surf, just to name a few! -- it's all capped off with the best place to be on a Sunday in recent memory, with Sharon Van Etten {and special guests The War On Drugs} at the Neptune Theater. Touring on the heels of her already much-loved latest Jagjaguwar release, Tramp, an album that both 'defies and illuminates the unsteadiness of a life in flux' (not like we weren't already smitten enough with tracks like "Love More" and "One Day" off of 2010's Epic), Van Etten and band will be bringing their particular brand of sad embrace to the stage, and we want to send you and a guest to the show.

Send us an email anytime between now and 10am Friday morning {that's this Friday, the 23rd} to tig {at} three imaginary girls {dot} com with the subject line "MagicChords" so that we know it's you. We'll pick a winner Friday and notify you that you're on the guest list +1 to Sunday's show.

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at The Middle East

Steele and Jer share their thoughts on the band's recent Boston set

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