Category Archives: Bumbershoot

The Lonely Forest at Bumbershoot 2009

photos by Dan Muller
review by RJ Cubarrubia
I’ll be honest: with all the talk of Anacortes’ The Lonely Forest, I felt like a complete dumbass for never having heard their music (it got really bad when I read in Sound that they were “Seattle’s next great band”). After having the pleasure of introducing them on our [...]

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More Bumbershoot photos

Another view of the Bumbershoot 2009 Music and Arts Festival by photographer by Dan Muller, who braved the rowdy fans of Modest Mouse on Monday night:

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Live Video: The Cave Singers at Bumbershoot Music Lounge

Another great session from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge: The Cave Singers played a mesmerizing set for the full theater audience, including songs from their excellent new album, Welcome Joy, and familiar favorites from Invitation Songs. Although the plastic cage around percussionist Marty Lund for a moment distracted singer Pete Quirk and guitarist Derek Fudesco, adding [...]

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Live Review: Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head at Bumbershoot 2009

photos by Dan Muller
review by RJ Cubarrubia
Bumbershoot 2009 was a fairly wet and wild affair, but no band could’ve prepared for the weekend weather better than Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. Sporting a nautical theme complete with a posse of inflatable dolphins, NPSH ripped through an hour-long dance party to an absurd army of kids shouting [...]

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Live Video: Metric at Bumbershoot Music Lounge

The most anticipated session of the Music Lounge series at Bumbershoot this year had to Metric. Fans were lined up an hour before the event, waiting to find space in the intimate theater. Metric’s Emily Haines and James Shaw took the stage for a stripped down set featuring songs mostly from their recent album, Fantasies, [...]

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Bumbershoot 2009 photos

Several KEXP photographers roamed of the grounds of the Bumbershoot 2009 Music and Arts Festival, capturing the energy of the live performances, the sometimes bizarre spectacle of the artists and fans, and the enthusiastic spirit that makes Bumbershoot one of the greatest festivals in the country. Here’s one perspective, through the eyes photographer Jim Bennett:

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Live Video: Sera Cahoone & Akron/Family at Bumbershoot Music Lounge

More live videos from KEXP’s broadcast at the Bumbershoot Music Lounge: Seattle songwriter Sera Cahoone, flanked by with Jason Kardong on the pedal steel and Jeff Fielder on banjo and acoustic guitar, performed a stripped down acoustic set of songs from her self-titled debut and her recent Sub Pop album Only As the Day Is [...]

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Bumbershoot 2009 Recap: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (And Cause No Trouble At All)

By Chris Estey
There were some telling observations my friends made about the annual Seattle Center-based festival this year — the best one was, “Franz Ferdinand are playing? Really? When?”
FF are a fine band, but Bumbershoot 2009 is noteworthy in that even a working rock group with a quality significant fan-base and memorable hits from [...]

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Live Video: Raphael Saadiq at Bumbershoot Music Lounge

During this past weekend, KEXP broadcast from the Bumbershoot 2009 Music Lounge, with exclusive and intimate live performances from 14 bands over three days, including The Cave Singers, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Common Market, Metric, and the legendary Brazilian psych rock band Os Mutantes, who performed for the very first time in Seattle. Over the [...]

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Bumbershoot Music Lounge: Metric

photos by Dave Lichterman
intro by Christy Thacker
Since dancing into the hearts of many at Bumbershoot four years ago, Metric has undergone some radical releases and revelations. After hopping between Toronto, Montreal, London, New York and Los Angeles, lead vocalist Emily Haines of the Canadian-based indie pop band finally settled down in Buenos Aires for some [...]

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