WOOT!

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1. Head Like a Kite - We Hang Our Heart from the Willows
2. Guano Apes - Oh What A Night
3. The Strokes - Heart In A Cage
4. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
5. Radiohead - Reckoner
6. Band Of Horses - The General Specific
7. Foster the People - Color the Walls (Don't Stop)
8. Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
9. The Kills - Dead Road 7
10. Spoon - Out Go The Lights
11. My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
12. The Kooks - Naïve
13. White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
14. MGMT - The Handshake
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
16. Franz Ferdinand - I'm Your Villain
17. The Black Keys - Everlasting Light
18. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
19. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
20. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
21. Passion Pit - Tonight, Tonight
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life
23. The New Pornographers - Your Hands (Together)
24. MGMT - Destrokk
25. The Breeders - Cannonball
26. Cage the Elephant - Back Against The Wall
27. Say Anything - Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat
28. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
29. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon Of Choice
30. Social Distortion - Far Behind

It’s been a while. I sure hope I remember what all these buttons do.

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1. Foster the People - Warrant
2. Tokyo Police Club - Be Good
3. Foo Fighters - For All the Cows
4. Earth, Wind & Fire - Keep Your Head To The Sky
5. Fitz and The Tantrums - Dear Mr. President
6. The Heavy - No Time
7. Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu
8. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
9. The New Pornographers - Your Hands (Together)
10. Motion City Soundtrack - Her Words Destroyed My Planet
11. The Kills - You Don't Own the Road
12. The Dead Weather - Hustle and Cuss
13. OK Go - A Million Ways
14. Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds
15. Hum - Stars
16. Guano Apes - Oh What A Night
17. Band Of Horses - Laredo
18. George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
19. Phoenix - Long Distance Call
20. Minus the Bear - Animal Backwards
21. The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
22. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen-year-old Girl
23. Portugal. The Man - When The War Ends
24. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
25. Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same
26. The Living End - Who's Gonna Save Us?
27. Cake - Sick of You
28. People In Planes - If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)
29. Nirvana - Oh, Me

Well, this is going to be a short review! I just want to say 1) despite some shortcomings – most notably moving the mainstage acts inside KeyArena this year – I love Seattle Center as a festival venue and 2) I came away from this year’s Bumbershoot with a ton of new music from bands I wasn’t familiar with who I really dug: Head Like a Kite, MarchFourth Marching Band, YACHT, and Shabazz Palaces to name a few. Of course, the bigger names came through too – The Presidents of the Unites States of America were hilariously fun on day one, Broken Social Scene carried the positive vibes through the middle day, and Fitz & the Tantrums were the only way I could end this year’s festival on day three.

(On a non-music note, I caught one of the comedy acts – The Improvised Shakespeare Company out of Chicago – and they were awesome. If you get a chance, see them!)

Here are a few videos that I think pretty well encapsulate the festival. I heard more covers at this festival than I’d heard in many other concerts put together! First, here’s Fitz & the Tantrums with “Steady As She Goes” and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”:

 

Now here’s a little Presidents of the United States of America and their improvised version of “Shout”:

 

… and a little Broken Social Scene covering Modest Mouse’s “World At Large”:

 

Finally… we can’t forget the dancing raver kid! He was maybe 8 or 9. Pretty sure he was hopped up on Ecstasy. (Kidding!) He was totally feeling the beat during Little Dragon’s set:

 

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