I’ve finally worked out the bugs and we have some video from Bumbershoot 2010. It’s from the Malvides set earlier this afternoon at the Mural Amphitheatre stage.

The 40th annual Bumbershoot festival will get underway in less than an hour, with Neko Case, the Decemberists and living legend Bob Dylan among the main attractions on the main stage at Memorial Stadium today. The full schedule is here, and make sure you check back throughout the weekend for photos, video and more updates on this year’s hottest acts.

The 40th annual Bumbershoot festival will bring the usual army of chart-topping performers, cult bands, comedians, street performers, writers, poster artists and more to Seattle Center from Saturday though Labor Day.

Dylan, Drake, Hole, Neko Case and Mary J. Blige are among the big shots that’ll be causing a stir on the main stage at Memorial Stadium this year. You can find a full schedule here.

But new this year is tiered ticket pricing. Festival promoter One Reel has given local music fans the option of paying full price – $40 in advance per day, $50 at the gate – for all the sights and sounds they can cram into their festival experience. Or they can buy economy tickets, which grant access to everything but the main stage for $22 per day in advance, $30 day of.

And really, it’s a no-brainer; save your ducats, people!
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Fresh from his appearance at KUBE 93′s Summer Jam, rapper Drake has been added to the main stage at the 40th annual Bumbershoot festival, organizer One Reel announced Tuesday. He will join Mary J. Blige and J. Cole at Seattle Center’s Memorial Stadium on Sept. 6. More details here.

Rock legend Bob Dylan, Courtney Love’s Hole, ex-Tacoman Neko Case, Mary J. Blige and Weezer are among the big names One Reel just announced for the 40th annual Bumbershoot festival, which will go on from Sept. 4 to 6 at Seattle Center. The festival site is here.

BUMBERSHOOT 2010 MUSICAL ACTS
Bob Dylan / Mary J. Blige / Weezer / Hole / Rise Against / Neko Case / The Decemberists / J. Cole / LMFAO / Billy Bragg / Ozomatli / Angelique Kidjo / Solomon Burke / The Dandy Warhols / Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic

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Seattle’s EMP/SFM announced that its ninth annual Pop Conference will focus on the gizmos and tech that’s been used to compose popular music over the years, from player pianos to Autotune.

The conference will run from April 15 to 18 this year, with with panels on post-punk reverb, deconstructing Freddie Mercury, Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad and other topics. A keynote address on “Making Technology Bounce” will be presented at 7 p.m. on April 15 by producers Nile Rodgers and Joe Henry and rising Outkast protege Janelle Monae (who you can see in a …

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OK, one more installment. Hope you like watchin’ these as I like shootin’ ‘em.

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A few more of my favorite musical moments that I managed to capture in digital this year …

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Every year I put together a top albums list. Then the following year or so, I’m embarrassed by one or two albums I’ve overlooked. There’s The Hold Steady’s “Boys & Girls in America.” There’s Meshuggah’s “Catch Thirty-three.” And now “Metropolis: The Chase Suite” – the dystopian-themed 2007 sci-fi pop album by Outkast protege Janelle Monae – is one of those.
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One of the most fun things about Bumbershoot is getting the chance to check out buzz bands you’ve maybe heard a little about and stumbling onto acts you’ve never seen that turn out to be thoroughly amazing, a la Joe Lewis & the Honeybears who delivered an impressive, funktastic Memphis-style blues n’ soul set over at the Mural Amphitheatre this afternoon.
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