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 [...]
Posted in Bumbershoot, KEXP | Also tagged Champagne Champagne, Matt Braunger, Os Mutantes, Parenthetical Girls, Reggie Watts, Spencer Moody, Story Pirates, The Lonely Forest, The Whore Moans, Todd Barry, Wallpaper, Wyatt Cenac |
by Chris Estey
Yes, a couple of years ago a whole bunch of people found out they could catch all those great new “alternative” comedians all in one light-rail wreck in the rock and roll bus tunnel of Bumbershoot mayhem… or something (OK, I tried a metaphor, and it really didn’t work out; sue me). Then [...]
Posted in Bumbershoot, KEXP | Also tagged Patton Oswalt |
I am unusually excited for this week, not just because it’ll be the first time I’ll have seen USE in probably about a year and a half but shortly after that I’ll be taking my first actual vacation in well over two years. So, with any luck, next week’s column will be filed, as Eddie [...]
interview by Corbett Cummins
photos by Heather Christianson
Eugene Mirman not only defies convention, he defies it unconventionally. As a Russian immigrant he moved to Lexington MA when he was four. He earned a degree in comedy from Hampshire College thus putting him into the unconventional minority of people who use their undergraduate education in real [...]
