Rogue Wave 'Descended' On Seattle
Tucked away in the Southeast corner of the Seattle Center stood the softer side of Oakland, California (which is known more for hyphy movement hip-hop than it is for sweet pop): Rogue Wave.
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Faces of the Fest, Part One
Bumbershoot, the three-day music and arts festival surrounding Seattle's towering Space Needle, draws tons of music fans each year, and, as SPIN.com has discovered, most have hilarious ideas of what the word bumbershoot really means.
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Blondie See Green, The Purrs Delight
A helicopter could've spotted Blondie. Debbie Harry and Co. took Bumbershoot's mainstage in neon-green garb, complete with a matching sunhat. The snug get-up didn't stop the frontwoman from dancing seductively to the band's first song, "Call Me," and later into standout number "The Tide is High," and these new-wave vets still worked the crowd like they once did New York clubs.
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The Gossip Spread the Word
Heads bobbed, hands clapped, and booties definitely shook as the Gossip christened Seattle's 37th annual Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival. Playing to a small but highly enthusiastic crowd, lead singer Beth Ditto channeled her inner Aretha Franklin as she belted out dance-friendly songs from her band's latest album, Standing In the Way of Control.
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New Pornographers, Spoon Added to Bumbershoot
New Pornographers, Spoon, Blondie, Steve Miller Band, and As I Lay Dying are a few of the bands that have been added to the lineup for this year's Bumbershoot festival. The now-complete lineup also includes AFI, Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights, Lady Sovereign, Feist, A Tribe Called Quest, Metric, 3 Inches of Blood, and many others.
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Get Cheap Tickets for Seattle's Bumbershoot Fest!
Spin.com has the scoop on an exclusive discounted presale for tickets to the upcoming Bumbershoot festival in Seattle (September 2-4), which features artists like Kanye West, AFI, Metric, A Tribe Called Quest, and more. Get your hands on $18 daily tickets and $50 three-day passes with this presale.




