Austra, fronted and created by Katie Stelmanis, headlined at Neumos on Friday. The Canadian band is touring in support of their critically acclaimed debut release, Feel It Break. The classically-trained Stelmanis – whose middle name is Austra – was flanked by twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman on backing vocals. Rounding out the band were drummer Maya Postepski, bassist Dorian Wolf and Ryan Wonsiak on keyboards.
This year Bumbershoot had an especially nice variety of artists to see, including Ana Tijoux, a French-Chilean rapper, musician/writer Eric Erlandson and local burlesque troupe, The Atomic Bombshells. Erlandson had his debut book of poetry, Letters to Kurt, published this year. Check out photos of these three artists by Kirk Stauffer and Nicky Andrews:
Ana Tijoux – photos by Kirk Stauffer
Eric Erlandson – photos by Nicky Andrews
Atomic Bombshells – photos by Kirk Stauffer
We’re continuing our Bumbershoot coverage tonight with photos of Fruit Bats, Bryan John Appleby and Noah Gundersen. Gunderson’s Facebook description is just this: Noah Gundersen writes songs and plays them for people. He likes to play music with his sister Abby. I think that is beautiful. Noah Gundersen will open for David Ramirez on a string of dates this fall, while Fruit Bats take a break from touring. Bryan John Appleby hits the road at the end of this week with The Head and the Heart. Not bad at all.
Fruit Bats – photos by Kirk Stauffer
Bryan John Appleby – photos by Nicky Andrews
Noah Gundersen – photos by Nicky Andrews
Fruit Bats – photos by Kirk Stauffer
Bryan John Appleby – photos by Nicky Andrews
Passion Pit and Yelawolf had spots on Bumbershoot’s TuneIn stage this year – and played to fans in the sun, and fans in the evening. In addition to having an impressive number of tattoos, Yelawolf, the Alabaman rapper, has a spot on Eminem’s label. Passion Pit’s second album, Gossamer, is out now. All photos by Kirk Stauffer!
Passion Pit
Yelawolf
Passion Pit
Yelawolf
thenewno2, a six-piece including Dhani Harrison and Jonathan Sadoff, and Seattle group Barcelona each performed at this year’s Bumbershoot. I’m thrilled photographers Kirk Stauffer and Nicky Andrews got photos of these bands – I had to miss them. If you’re in Las Vegas on September 27th you can catch Barcelona’s next show, and thenewno2 tours their latest album, thefearofmissingout, this fall.
thenewno2 – photo by Nicky Andrews
thenewno2 – photo by Kirk Stauffer
Barcelona – photos by Kirk Stauffer
thenewno2 – photos by Kirk Stauffer
thenewno2 – photos by Nicky Andrews
Barcelona – photos by Kirk Stauffer