Bumbershoot Full Lineup Revealed
Labor Day weekend: the beaches close, but the fun (and the water?) still flows...if you're at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival in Seattle. The event, which will take place from September 2-4 at the Seattle Center, has just revealed its massive lineup in full.
The list includes Kanye West, Spoon, the New Pornographers, A Tribe Called Quest, Blondie, Atmosphere, the Gossip, Feist, Of Montreal, Metric, Mates of State, Jamie Lidell, Deerhoof, Lady Sovereign, the Blood Brothers, NOMO, Jose Gonzalez, Vashti Bunyan, Badly Drawn Boy, CocoRosie, and more.
Full lineup after the jump.
Saturday, September 2:
The Gossip, Blondie, Jamie Lidell, Deerhoof, Lady Sovereign, the Blood Brothers, NOMO, Badly Drawn Boy, Hawthrone Heights, Yellowcard, AFI, the Thermals, the Can't See, Po'okela Street Band, Dub Championz, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Erase Errata, the Epoxies, Korby Lenker, the Swains, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, Laura Veirs, Alejandro Escovedo, Shooter Jennings, Derby, Slender Means, Halou, Rogue Wave, Of Montreal, Rik Wright, p:ano, the Living Jarboe, PK & What Army?, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the Lonely Forest, the Lonely H, the Purrs, Daylight Basement, Sirens Sister, Cloud Cult
Sunday, September 3:
Kanye West, Spoon, the New Pornographers, Mates of State, Zero 7, Jose Gonzalez, Vashti Bunyan, Blue Scholars, Dengue Fever, Jeremy Enigk, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Rishi Rich Project, Common Market, Gokh-Bi System, Tor Dietrichson with Mambo Cadillac, As I Lay Dying, mewithoutYou, 3 Inches of Blood, the Fall of Troy, Great Big Sea, Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson, Matt Costa, Sonya Kitchell, Electric Shades of Blue, West Valley Highway, Crystal Skulls, the Like, Mon Frere, Jim Knapp Orchestra, Kelley Johnson Quartet, Floyd Standifer, John Bishop Group, Deadbeat, Lusine, SynthClub, Thee Emergency, New Fangs, Velella Velella, Romance
Monday, September 4:
A Tribe Called Quest, Feist, Atmosphere, Steve
Miller Band, Metric, CocoRosie, the Veronicas, Nouvelle Vague, Sparta,
Copeland, the BellRays, the Subdudes, Particle, the Village Green, the English
Beat, Yerba Buena, Breakestra, Cancer Rising, Olympic Sound Collective, the
Briefs, Speaker Speaker, Bettye LaVette, Sera Cahoone, Brett Dennen, Randy
Oxford Band, Rocky Votolato, Mountain Con, Bitter:sweet, Jacqui Naylor, the
Transmissionary Six, Johanna Kunin, Kane Hodder, the Hollowpoints, Go Like
Hell, the Invisible Eyes, Izabelle, the Saturday Knights, Macklemore,
Abyssinian Creole
In addition to the tunes, Bumbershoot features two comedy stages, including performances by Aziz Ansari, "Best Week Ever"'s Paul Scheer, "Curb Your Enthusiasm"/"Arrested Development"/"Upright Citizens Brigade" funnyman Rob Huebel, and a guest panel that will, according to the fest's official website, take an "uproarious look at chapters 6 through 12 of R. Kelly's un-ironic hip-hopera Trapped in the Closet.".
On the arts end, the Seattle International Film Festival will curate Bumbershoot's 1 Reel Film Festival. There will also be dance, theater, an "Indie Market", a literary program, a poster sale, and a roller derby. No kidding.
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