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, Eugene Mirman, Matt Braunger, Parenthetical Girls, Reggie Watts, Spencer Moody, Story Pirates, The Lonely Forest, The Whore Moans, Todd Barry, Wallpaper, Wyatt Cenac |
If you thought you were going to give your bank account a break on this short, post-Labor Day week, you are mistaken… but happily mistaken because it’s a time of happy returns as some newer and much older favorites reunite or continue to put out new albums. Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls, who just performed live on [...]
photos by Jim Bennett
intro by Carrie Rubens with Christy Thacker
It’s hard to imagine what decade it is when psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes takes stage. With their melding of Elvis and Beatles-influenced rock, samba, folk and bossa nova, Os Mutantes creates an experimental sound that seems to transcend any decade.
Os Mutantes emerged from turbulent [...]
by Chris Estey
Maybe it’s how the bands bond intimately with who they know are big fans. (Last year, Two Gallants put on one of the best performances of the festival there.) Maybe it’s the excellent sound (hey, Kevin Suggs!) in the tucked-away special venue. Perhaps it’s the posh, comfortable seats in a cool setting indoors [...]
Posted in Bumbershoot, KEXP | Also tagged Akron/Family, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Common Market, Elvis Perkins, Gang Gang Dance, Hey Marseilles, Holy Fuck, Metric, Raphael Saadiq, Sera Cahoone, Telekinesis, The Cave Singers, Vieux Farka Toure, Vivian Girls |
On Saturday, September 5, 7:30 at the Fisher Green stage, Bumbershoot attendees will get to catch elders of some of the most exotic and quixotic pop music ever created: a band called Os Mutantes.
This Brazilian band’s music was part of a revolutionary movement based in surrealism and political protest called Tropicalia, and though part [...]
If you hadn’t heard already, Bob Bogle, lead guitarist of The Ventures and master of the whammy bar, died this past weekend in Tacoma. He was 75. Bogle started The Ventures in Tacoma in 1958 with fellow masonry worker Don Wilson. The group was well known for their theme to the show Hawaii Five-O and [...]
