11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. • Starbucks Stage
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Brent Amaker & the Rodeo Seattle's own Men in Black will release their new album, Please Stand By, next month; expect a strong dose of their gritty brand of Americana. Amaker's booming voice and sometimes silly, sometimes dirty, cowboy-themed lyrics combine with rock influences from Devo and Bowie to create an edgy, Kill Bill–style Western feel. —Erin K. Thompson
Noon to 1:15 • Words & Ideas
MeTube Three local artists tell the stories of their pasts, presents, and futures through compiled sets of other people's online videos. In other words, it's as self-indulgent as its name suggests. —Mary Pauline Diaz
Noon to 1 • 1 Reel Film Festival, SIFF Cinema
Portrait of the Artist Among these two shorts, the 20-minute Dig Comics shows director/narrator Miguel Cima's evident love for comic books. Here in Seattle, home of Fantagraphics, we really don't need to be sold on the medium, but Cima's geeky enthusiasm is impossible to dislike. —Brian Miller
12:30 to 1:30 • Broad Street Stage
Bobby Bare, Jr. Nominated for a Grammy at age 8 (for a song he recorded with his father), he's been making his brand of alt-rock consistently ever since. His newest release is the highly personal A Storm—A Tree—My Mother's Head. —EKT
12:30 to 1:30 • Sky Church
People Eating People Seeing Nouela Johnston pound her keyboard and belt out "I Hate All My Friends" should be more than enough motivation to shake off your Labor Day hangover and get to Seattle Center before lunch. Johnston's self-titled debut—which she re-released nationally this summer—is a powerhouse. She knows how to play the keys off against her voice, combining her piano's lowest notes with her own higher ones; the result is both sultry and strong. People Eating People is dark like Tori Amos' From the Choirgirl Hotel without the alienation—something about these songs feels warm and pleasant, even through all the sorrow. —Paige Richmond
12:30 to 1:30 • Fisher Green
Victor Shade Named for the alter ego of Marvel Comics android/superhero The Vision, the collaboration between MC RA Scion and producer MTK is steeped in hardbody beats and the conflict between good and evil. —Nick Feldman
1 to 2 • 1 Reel Film Festival, SIFF Cinema
South of the Border: Latin American Shorts Peasants battle their corporate overlords in Brazil, and a kid tries to claw his way out of the slums of Colombia. —BM
1 to 2 • Performing Arts Stage
Squonk Opera See Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
1 to 2 • Northwest Court
Brian Vogan Lots of children's music comes from onetime rockers who had kids and realized they didn't want their little ones listening to their own music, or who would just prefer to write about animals and playgrounds these days. But rock guys entering children's music can sometimes have the feel of actors entering music. Brian Vogan is actually an early-childhood educator, and a music educator, no less. In other words, he knows what's up, but parents should be warned he doesn't have quite the same adult listenability as some of those other acts (also see Caspar Babypants, Saturday, 1 p.m.). —MPD
1:15 to 2 • Fountain Lawn
Cyclecide See Saturday, 1:15 p.m. (Also 4:45 to 5:45.)
1:15 to 2:15 • Center Square Stage
JEFF The Brotherhood Several conflicting influences are at work in JEFF the Brotherhood's fuzzy stoner punk, which may or may not be the result of residual sibling rivalry between brothers-turned-bandmates Jake and Jamin Orrall. The band's most recent release, Heavy Days, is a nine-song testament to this polyamorous partnership of distorted, meandering riffs of psych; hard, clipped punk rock; and heavy metal. Not that that hasn't been done before, but what's impressive about JEFF the Brotherhood is how big and bad these two manage to sound with just a drum kit and a guitar that rarely survives a set with all its strings intact. —Sara Brickner
1:15 to 2:15 • Comedy Stage West
"Too Beautiful to Live" Live Podcast Get in line early to watch Luke Burbank put together one of his acclaimed new shows. The veteran radio host is a savvy interviewer who'll attract guests from anywhere on the Bumbershoot talent roster. Smart, dry, and self-effacing, he doesn't force his way into the conversation. Rather, in his self-described role as "imaginary radio host," he orchestrates the chat in a wide-ranging, intelligent direction. —BM
1:15 to 2:30 • Starbucks Stage
Trampled by Turtles Minnesota isn't quite a bluegrass capital, but Duluth's TBT has been charting hits in that genre for years. The quintet specializes in acoustic, string-based roots music that whirls to life with a distinct rock edge during their raw live shows. —EKT
2 to 3:15 • Theatre Puget Sound Stage
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee See Sunday, 2 p.m.
2 to 3 • Sky Church
BOAT This Seattle band makes adorable, bouncy pop with tinges of irony, singing about the strangeness of adulthood while writing instrumentals with a childlike quality. —PR
2 to 3 • 1 Reel Film Festival, SIFF Cinema
Films4Families: Family Funtime Before the "LAND" fell off L.A.'s iconic "HOLLYWOOD" sign, it was illuminated by 4,000 light bulbs, as we learn in The Caretaker, one short in this group of seven. —BM
