Seattlest may have spent Saturday sweating our asses off and getting seriously sunburned, but we managed to catch some of the best of the best of what that Bumbershoot thing had to offer. The first thing we did was head over to the mainstage to check out Olympia-based supergroup Gossip (we hear they dropped the "The"). Gossip rocked so hard we forgot to take notes - we were too busy thinking "hells yeah!" Then......

Bumbershoot sent out an email this morning announcing a bunch of acts for this year's Smaller, Better Festival. There's even more hiphop on the bill with the addition of local act Blue Scholars and Common Market and Brit chick Lady Sovereign (who we're looking forward to seeing with The Streets soon). Area indie rockers Crystal Skulls and Rocky Votolato will be there and to continue the trend of one Brit band for every couple of......

Alejandro Escovedo will be performing at the Tractor this evening. Alejandro (We like to presume that we are on a first name basis with him, even though we never met. We just like the name Alejandro.) is one of the best alt-country singers out there today. He's what Ryan Adams would like to be if Ryan Adams was actually cool. The Burning Brides are performing at El Corazon tomorrow night. Some people say they sound......