Bumbershoot Partial Lineup 2008

Once more, the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is bringing an eclectic spread of music and arts to the Seattle Center in Washington for your Labor Day relaxation (August 30 - September 1). Today they announce a partial lineup of confirmed acts, including Beck, M. Ward, the Walkmen, Neko Case, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Dan Deacon, Blitzen Trapper, John Vanderslice, Final Fantasy, Arthur & Yu, the stage-scorchers of !!!, and the newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots (assuming Scott Weiland hasn't yet effectuated the group's inevitable self-destruction via heroin injection and/or bitchy blog posts). All the bands we know plus ticket purchase info, below.

Beck
Stone Temple Pilots
Lucinda Williams
Neko Case
Ingrid Michaelson
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Jakob Dylan
!!!
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Saul Williams
Joe Bonamassa
M. Ward
The Walkmen
Asylum St. Spankers
Dan Deacon
MIDIval PunditZ
Blitzen Trapper
Bedouin Soundclash
Tim Finn
Dale Watson
John Vanderslice
Final Fantasy
The Fall of Troy
Orgone
Forro in the Dark
Ryan Bingham
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby
Arthur & Yu
Darondo and Nino Moschella
Pacifika

The full lineup will be announced "later this summer," but if you're ready to commit right now, three-day passes are presently on sale at bumbershoot.org. The single day ticket sales start July 15th.

Posted at 12:28 PM
Tags: Bumbershoot

7 Comments

it's del the funkEE homosapien

Posted by: obeygiant at 04/09/08 1:21 PM  | Reply
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Nice, but Coachella just added Prince.

Sorry to threadjack, but that news needs FRONT PAGE ACTION, Stereogum!

Posted by: pedro at 04/09/08 1:55 PM  | Reply
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lol @ pedro

and why are the elegant bachelors even around anymore?

Posted by: Kevin at 04/09/08 2:27 PM  | Reply
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Do people even want to see Stone Temple Pilots anymore? They are supposed to be headlining the Virgin festival here in Calgary too. But I could care less. Be interesting to see if Scott even makes it across the border.

Posted by: Music Critic at 04/09/08 2:49 PM  | Reply
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i've been waiting for beck for so long!

Posted by: jace at 04/09/08 4:10 PM  | Reply
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Scott Weiland does drugs! HA! Haven't heard that one yet!

Posted by: ElDan at 04/09/08 4:55 PM  | Reply
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uh...

Posted by: gaston monescu at 04/09/08 7:39 PM  | Reply
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