After a brief spell of rain, the sun returned to Seattle Center Monday on the final day of the 2008 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, allowing an apt closure to what has been an action packed Labor Day weekend.

After spending the summer traveling from music festival to music festival, SPIN.com has finally reached the final -- and arguably the best -- event in the summer circuit: Seattle's Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival.

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Every band you like owes them a debt.
Now entering their 20th (!) year, this Chapel Hill quartet virtually invented everything about indie rock worth emulating: economic self-sufficiency, creativity unchecked by careerism, perfect pop hooks, and songwriting chops that have matured at the same rate the band and their audience themselves.

Officials for the 2008 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival have completed the festival's lineup, adding Death Cab For Cutie, Tapes ‘n Tapes, Superchunk, Two Gallants, and the Weakerthans, among others, to a bill featuring Beck, the recently reunited Stone Temple Pilots, and Neko Case. The festival convenes at Seattle, WA's Seattle Center from Aug. 30-Sept. 1.

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