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Wanna be a rock star? It’s time to sign up for EMP’s 2011 Sound Off! contest
The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum is accepting applications for its 2011 Sound Off! competition, now in its 10th year.
The competition for musicians 21 and under has been a launch pad for music careers. Dyme Def, Schoolyard Heroes, The Lonely Forest and Brite Futures (formerly known as Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head) are among [...]
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Bumbershoot’s final day offers soggy surprises and unexpected delights
By MIKEL TOOMBS
The final day (Monday, Sept. 6) of Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival, soggy and somewhat sparsely populated, yielded some offbeat, even unexpected delights.
What can you say about a speed-metal guitarist-singer who prompts a 60-something woman in the Center Square Stage crowd to exclaim, “He’s the best entertainer I’ve seen in three days!”?
Only that it had [...]
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Parting shots: Bumbershoot’s smaller music stages offered rich rewards
Indie rockers ruled Bumbershoot’s smaller stages on Sunday, the second day of the 40th annual festival at Seattle Center.
Here’s a gallery of photos by Seattle photographer Kam Martin of Fences, Crash Kings, Hey Marseilles, The Lonely H and Horse Feathers.
All were Northwest bands (except for Los Angeles power-pop group Crash Kings) performing on such stages [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Courtney Love and the Hole truth at Bumbershoot
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Train wreck!”
A random guy, quoting the conventional wisdom, shouted that at regular intervals during Hole’s performance Sunday (Sept. 5) at the Bumbershoot festival’s Mainstage (Memorial Stadium).
He was roundly ignored, probably because Hole’s whole reason to exist, tabloid-baiting frontwoman Courtney Love, was inimitably witty and even lucid throughout her band’s hour-plus set. And, just [...]
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Visqueen, Raveonettes, Decemberists, Neko Case rock Bumbershoot
The 40th annual Bumbershoot festival opened Saturday (Sept. 4) with a raucous lineup of performers, from 69-year-old Bob Dylan to hot Seattle band Visqueen.
Among the many acts that rocked stages throughout Seattle Center were Neko Case (opening for the craggy Dylan), Solomon Burke, Wheedle’s Groove, The Maldives, Star Anna & the Laughing Dogs, The Decemberists, [...]
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