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Friends, family, neighbors and strangers!

Happy New Year!

We are very excited to announce the SECOND ROUND OF ARTISTS playing Treefort stages in 2017 for you!

Are you Treefort Ready? Visit the TICKETS page to secure your spot in the latest Treefort adventure.

To continue your research, we’ve highlighted some of the 106 artists from this announce below. We’re up to 180 total artists for you to get to know as you prep for the schedule to be released in mid-February. See the full FIRST and SECOND ROUND of TREEFORT ARTISTS added to the 2017 lineup over on the lineup page.

Also, relive the hilariously funny Treefort Video produced by Retroscope Media and call the Treefort Line (for real!) for more details throughout the season TMF-888-2017.

((( los angeles, california )))

“Touché Amoré have been around for just under a decade, but they’ve already ascended from stalwarts of the Long Beach punk community, to flag-bearers of the American post-hardcore renaissance, to the heaviest band managed by Roc Nation. They’ve shared stages with heavy-hitters like Converge and AFI, and even played Jay Z’s Made in America festival last month [August 2016] alongside Rihanna, Coldplay, and Lil Wayne. Anyone who’s heard Touché’s racket—a leaden mix of serrated guitar leads, head-spinning tempos, and frontman Jeremy Bolm’s impassioned screams—knows that it’s not exactly poppy; but what the band lack in a universally-adored sound, they make up for twice-over with timeless themes.” — Pitchfork (Stage Four album review, Sept 2016)

((( toronto, ontario )))

Alvvays (pronounced “Always”) is a Canadian indie pop band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2011. The band currently consists of vocalist Molly Rankin, keyboardist Kerri MacLellan, guitarist Alec O’Hanley, bassist Brian Murphy, and drummer Phil MacIsaac. Their Chad VanGaalen-produced debut album, Alvvays, was released in 2014, peaking at number one on the U.S. college charts. Rumor has it that the follow-up to that record will be released sometime in 2017. Stay tuned for that news. In the meantime, get to know their hit first album and look forward to their first appearance in Boise this March.

((( los angeles, california )))

Dead Meadow’s unique marriage of Sabbath riffs, dreamy layers of guitar-fuzz bliss, and singer Jason Simon’s high-pitched melodic croon have won over psychedelic pop/rock and stoner rock fans alike. Although the band’s members met while attending all-ages shows in and around Washington, D.C.’s punk/indie scene, the trio draws more of its sound from such classic rock legends as Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. The trio formed in the fall of 1998 out of the ashes of local indie rock bands the Impossible 5 and Coulour, with singer/guitarist Simon, bassist Steve Kille, and drummer Mark Laughlin. The three members set out to fuse their love of early-’70s hard rock and ’60s psychedelia with their love of fantasy and horror writers J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft.

((( atlanta, georgia )))

The Coathangers had a mega 2016. On top of celebrating 10 years of being a band, the Atlanta trio released ‘Nosebleed Weekend,’ toured the world from North America and Europe to Australia and New Zealand, opened for REFUSED, and made waves with their Late Night TV debut on Last Call with Carson Daly. Not only that, ‘Nosebleed Weekend’ made Billboard’s Top 200 for the first time. // “The Coathangers’ transition from raw to razor-sharp was essentially complete by 2014’s Suck My Shirt, but Nosebleed Weekend displays an even greater capacity for churning out maniacally captivating tunes. On this fifth album, The Coathangers haven’t compromised a bit of the defiant edge that made the band such subversively charming rookies. Only now, 10 years in, The Coathangers have everything nailed down tight enough to withstand a hurricane.” — Paste Magazine (#44, The 50 Best Albums of 2016)

((( london, england )))

“Kate Tempest’s refusal to recognise genre boundaries – her material nimbly regenerates itself into performance poetry, rap-style narratives against a backdrop of electronic music, a novel – might appear at odds with the consistency of her concerns. Mining the streets of south-east London, her voice androgynous and youthful but inflected with the pain of witnessing the world intensely and relentlessly, she captures the desperation – and occasional jubilation – of individual lives and then pulls the focus to reveal what holds us all in place.” — The Guardian /// And from NPR Music’s Bob Boilen : “Warning: Kate Tempest will connect you with your emotions and the cold, callous world around you. You may cry. Of all the artists I saw at SXSW this year, Tempest was the one I’ll never forget. The London hip-hop artist, playwright and poet speaks with a clarity and honesty unencumbered by code or lingo, with stories that cut to the very heart of how we try to survive and embrace our time on Earth.”

((( minneapolis, minnesota )))





((( athens, georgia )))

“Kaoru Ishibashi is a violin-playing songwriter and arranger who leads the band Kishi Bashi. After studying scoring at Berklee College of Music, he played as a sideman with Regina Spektor and Of Montreal. He formed Kishi Bashi in 2011, and the band has taken on many forms since then. His last album was made up of songs from the band’s catalog rerecorded with a string quartet. Kishi Bashi’s new album, Sonderlust, is a more groove- and pop-oriented album that draws influence from disco, with the band’s trademark strings layered with synth parts. The lyrics are colored by a separation Ishibashi was going through in his personal life.” — NPR World Cafe