Photos: the Smashing Pumpkins & Bad City @ Showbox SoDo

Posted on 09/12/2010 by Dagmar

I don’t think I have talked long with a person who doesn’t like at least one song by the Smashing Pumpkins. Some bands are just like that, they just must have something that you like about them, some song you dig. I got hooked on the Smashing Pumpkins kind of late, around Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and by that time they’d already released Gish and Siamese Dream. But whenever you got into them you show impeccable taste. Photographer Alex Crick went to their Seattle show on Friday night and brought back some ace pix of Billy Corgan and company – as well as shots of openers Bad City.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Bad City

Photos: Visqueen and Solomon Burke @ Bumbershoot

Posted on 09/09/2010 by Kirk

Local favorite Visqueen and Mr. R&B, Solomon Burke, were the closers for their respective stages on Saturday evening, the first day of Bumbershoot.

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Photos: Jenny & Johnny and Laura Veirs @ Bumbershoot

Posted on 09/09/2010 by Kirk

Jenny & Johnny and Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames both had sets Monday evening at the final day of Bumbershoot.

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Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames

Photos: The Head & the Heart and Decemberists @ Bumbershoot

Posted on 09/09/2010 by BBS

Two of my all-time favorite bands both made it to Bumbershoot this year. The Head and the Heart were an amazing surprise since they weren’t originally slated to be there, but there they were at the Toyota stage early Saturday morning to start my festival weekend off the best way possible. Then a little later, it got that much better as I sang along in the crowd to the Decemberists. They played several of their yet-to-be-released songs from their upcoming album (yay!). These two shows made the weekend. Seriously. For more shots from these shows and the rest of the weekend, check out the flickr collection.

THE HEAD AND THE HEART

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THE DECEMBERISTS

Photos: Civil Twilight and Edward Sharpe @ Bumbershoot

Posted on 09/09/2010 by BBS

It’s hard to believe this post has two epic bands like Civil Twilight and Edward Sharpe, and that it was just the beginning to the lineup of Bumbershoot last weekend. They put on fantastic shows, I just wish there was more time to hang around and listen to them. For more photos of these and other bands, check out the flickr collection.