Author: Yasmin Ettobi

The night finished with everyone jumping to “Yeah Right” off of Big Fish Theory, then Staples left the stage backed by a video of recently deceased Mac Miller’s NPR Tiny Desk Performance.

Waiting in line for Seattle shows in February is no easy feat, thanks to the freezing temperatures and biting winds that come along with the winter month. Despite this, a small line formed outside of the Showbox as early as 6 AM, with fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of Nashville’s COIN.

Every time that Hippo Campus comes to Seattle, they step up their game in some way. As a band that’s always evolving musically and creatively, who knows what they have in store for the next time they journey back up to the PNW.

The mellow croonings of NYC’s Frankie Cosmos and the bubbly quirkiness of London based Kero Kero Bonito don’t seem like they would blend together very well, but the two bands proved exactly the opposite to a sold out crowd.

If you had walked into the nearly empty Showbox to the sound of old-timey country music blasting through the speakers

Many tend to praise California musician Hobo Johnson as one of the brightest and most talented young artists of this

Despite my ongoing pessimism within the time leading up to the festival, I learned an important lesson this past weekend: Bumbershoot, and I’m sure any other modern music festival for that matter, was exactly what I made of it. I could have definitely sat in the bleachers of the main stage for hours on end, grumbling about how millennials ruined what Bumbershoot ‘used to be’ and critiquing every aspect of the event from front to back.

If you had been standing by Pike Place Market at 6 PM this Tuesday, you would have seen the streets

As sweaty, glitter-clad fans exited the venue after the set, the pure joy and excitement radiating off of everyone made it apparent that MGMT succeeded in producing a memorable night of stellar music and showmanship.

The night came to end with Toledo, accompanied by only his electric guitar, crooning out a cover of Frank Ocean’s “Ivy,” and an earth-shattering performance of “Beach Life-In-Death” with the help of the full band. Some may think it unwise to end a set with a 13-minute long monster of a track, but in Car Seat Headrest’s case, nothing could have completed the night on a better note.

There wasn’t an unhappy face in the venue as Pale Waves ended the set with their breakout single, “There’s a Honey.” As a relatively new band to the popular music scene, it was inspiring to see the impact that the quartet had on the young attendees of Seattle.