The art show and performance tonight are free, so being broke is not an excuse to stay in.
It's a hard night of choice in Seattle, with Awesome! at ACT, Husbands Love Your Wives at Easy Street, and The Dirtbombs (!!) at Chop Suey...
Bumbershoot 2008 photo by Kyle Johnson
Bumbershoot is a musical extravaganza, spanning the three-day Labor Day weekend with more bands, arts, and elephant ears than anyone can possibly capture. We had a posse of imaginary writers (ChrisB, Chris Estey, imaginary elle, imaginary dana, and Cory), and photographers (Chona, Kyle, Nathan, and Andrew) all over Seattle Center, trying to capture the frenzy and mayhem of Bumbershoot 2008. Below you can see and read about our adventures during the first day, which kicked off with local electronic duo Beehive and ended with superstar Beck, and covered over 20 other bands in-between.
Enjoy!
PWRFL Power photos by Kyle Johnson
Kaz has seen the comments and said he only read the negative ones because they make him smile.
Latest comment by: nobodybrokeyourheart: "the only reason that i would ever hate pwrfl power, is that he is no longer local and thus is probably actually getting paid to play the capitol hill bloc party. sell out."
I'd hate for one review to rob their wide readership of the chance to listen a little more closely. And see for themselves that Pitchfork, in their infinite wisdom, missed the point.
Latest comment by: Gemmi: "PWRFL Power sucks.... sorry... i saw him at battle of the bands for capitol hill block party and i could never understand why he beat out the sutures!"
There is plenty of Friday and Saturday afternoon to catch the route 60, 131, 134, or 170 to catch this little festival with a big Northwest line-up.
For the keyword curious, here's the full top 50 ways folks found TIG in Google last month.
Latest comment by: Joseph Riippi: "I'm gonna have to go ahead and take credit for the "fuck photo" link. Without Music Fuck It"
PWRFL Power. Photos by Kyle Johnson.
Latest comment by: Kiri: "PWRFUL POWER was great! I think he was sick that night, at least that's what he said to me.. "
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