So Far, Bumbershoot Lineup Fails to Impress

Our first taste of the 2007 Bumbershoot lineup leaves us hungry for so much more.

The full-flavored list of cross-genre musical artists scheduled to perform at the 2007 Bumbershoot includes:

The Shins, Wu-Tang Clan, Panic! At The Disco, Crowded House, Lupe Fiasco, Steve Earle, DeVotchKa, Devendra Banhart, Gogol Bordello, Kill Hannah, Norma Jean, Plain White T's, The Gourds, Lyrics Born, Roky Erickson & The Explosives, The Holmes Brothers, The Avett Brothers, Yungchen Lhamo, Allison Moorer, Magnolia Electric Company, The Aggrolites

We'll give that a big ol' "meh." The Shins? It's their nine millionth Bumbershoot appearance and we're sooooo over it. Wu-Tang? Only if they've got a resurrected and zombiefied ODB in tow. Panic! at the Disco? Don't even get us started on that horrid emo band and their extraneous exclamation point. Gogol Bordello, DeVotchKa, and Devendra Banhart are all fine festival selections, but they're not enough to get us to deal with the Bumbershoot crowds, prices, and heat. Miranda July and Davy Rothbert are a good start for the Literary Arts program, but with no announcement yet on the comedy tip, we're gonna hold off on making a Seattle Center commitment to Labor Day weekend until we've got more to go on. For now, Bumbershoot, you're only down in pencil.

The full-festival $60 passes are all sold out, but the three-day $75 pass is still available