Friday, Sept. 12 If Bumbershoot is the last festival of the summer, consider Chinook Fest the inaugural fest of fall….
2014 has been the year of immortalizing our nation’s favorite things in song. First Pizza Underground gave us its pizza-themed…
Coheed and Cambria might be rock’s geekiest band, and that’s meant in the best way possible. The prog-rock quartet’s extensive…
Friday, September 5 To get a sense of what makes The Stone Foxes tick, you need to do two things….
Seattle’s Exohxo does chamber pop with a special emphasis on “chamber.” It’s becoming relatively more common for groups to include…
Summer is ending, and there’s no better way to bid adieu to the season than with the bittersweet, timeless country…
Friday, August 29 The Brooklyn-based duo of Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant, collectively known as She Keeps Bees, have been…
Showcases like this make it hard to give a short answer to the question “What kind of music is it?”…
Wednesday, Sept. 3 Ken BurnsSure, you could wait until next Sunday the 14th to watch the first installment of Ken…
To hear Halie Loren sing is to glimpse the divine, and it is easy to see why this jazz vocalist…
As we began to map out this year’s Bumbershoot coverage, one act kept coming up: Mac Demarco, a Canadian songwriter…
Shaprece is one of our staff picks for Bumbershoot 2014. Photo by Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi After 16 years away, Afghan Whigs…
Friday, August 22 Pacific Northwesterners take cycling seriously—a fact we recently proved with a piece about a Seattle-made “bike of…
Ever-industrious Seattle music titan Marco Collins is behind Tag 2.0, a five-band music showcase he’s calling a “social experiment of…
Friday, Aug. 29 Finding FelaThough he outlived Bob Marley, Fela Kuti never managed to connect with Western ears in the…
If today’s music is overly manicured for your tastes, old-school Beck is like stripping off your business suit, donning some…
Friday, August 15 A common household name in rock for four decades running, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers pepper hits…
Seattle’s not short on summer music offerings—nor is it lacking in garage punk bands. Combining both, Pizza Fest, now in…
Despite forty years of evolution, rap music is still largely reluctant to adopt live instruments (unless, of course, you’re The…
Thursday, Aug. 21 Brian PosehnFor some reason, Posehn is not among the talented roster of comics at Bumbershoot this year….
