Music
The best and latest music writing from The Stranger
The Stranger’s Exhaustively Comprehensive Bursting-at-the Seams Guide to Bumbershoot 2026!
What to See and What to Skip at This Year’s Festival
Phew! Another music festival? But it’s almost September! Isn’t it time to go back to school and drink hot cocoa under a cozy blanket and pretend to care about football? No! There is still summer fun to be had, as exhausted as you may be, because Bumbershoot is taking over the Seattle Center September 5…
Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Saturday
We Tell You Who to See and Who to Skip!
Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Sunday
We Tell You Who to See and Who to Skip!
Who Said It?
Edgar Allan Poe vs. Ben Gibbard
Pop Loser: Courtney Love Update, New Shabazz Palaces Single, and Three Blood Brothers Return as Evil Island
All the Music News and Events for Your Week
Pop Loser: It’s Not Right But It’s Okay That I Didn’t Get Anything From the Whitney Houston Auction
All the Music News and Events for Your Week
Block-Rockin’ Feats
Belltown Blast Celebrates the Neighborhood’s Artsy Tenacity
Exposure Therapy
Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum on Turning Grief Into Art
Everything We See at the Capitol Hill Block Party
Come Find The Stranger This Weekend… and Maybe Fall in Love?
Pop Loser: Give Yourself Over to Absolute Pleasure
Den Fest, a New Ariana Grande Album, and More Music News and Events for Your Week
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