{"id":1990642,"date":"2025-09-01T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1990642"},"modified":"2025-09-01T04:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:39:26","slug":"bumbershoot-day-1-weezer-rocks-seattle-set-and-new-bands-shine-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bumbershoot-day-1-weezer-rocks-seattle-set-and-new-bands-shine-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumbershoot Day 1: Weezer rocks Seattle set \u2014 and new bands shine | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Concert review<\/h2>\n

When Bumbershoot debuted in 1971, the \u201cMayor\u2019s Festival\u201d was a delightfully weird amalgam of dance, theater, art, music and more. That spirit was still present on Saturday afternoon at Seattle Center.<\/p>\n

The original festival organizers \u2014 and current organizers New Rising Sun, running the show for the third year<\/a> \u2014 likely would’ve smiled as Say She She played a crisp soul set while pro wrestlers grappled and skateboarders flung themselves through the air on the Gravity Park half-pipe, kicking off the first half of the two-day Labor Day weekend festival.<\/p>\n

Music has increasingly taken the Bumbershoot spotlight over the years, and the main-stage heavy hitters in this year’s lineup catered to the many millennials and Gen Xers roaming Seattle Center, but the future was on display on the Mural stage.<\/p>\n

Hey, Nothing, an emo folk group from Atlanta, looked barely old enough to shave as they tore through a tight set, including the exuberant \u201cSick Dogs.\u201d And Scowl, a hardcore band out of California<\/a>, also impressed. Kat Moss growled and barked and paced around the stage, working the crowd into a lather. Hardcore punk isn\u2019t the most accessible genre, but it’s having a moment<\/a>, and it was impressive to see the band connect with a large festival crowd so quickly.<\/p>\n

There are reasons to kvetch about AI and autotune in music these days, but Bumbershoot proved that the spirit of real, live music is alive and well in 2025, even if you have to look a bit harder to find it.<\/p>\n

As the afternoon wore on, the crowd started to migrate more toward the main stage. By the time Connor Oberst\u2019s indie\/emo\/folk band Bright Eyes hit the stage at 6:30 p.m., the lawn in front of the International Fountain was packed. Oberst came out with \u201cUNMASK I.C.E.\u201d written in red tape on his guitar and launched into \u201cEl Capitan,\u201d a somber song that matched the message from Oberst.<\/p>\n

Carseat Head Rest<\/a> took over the main stage next. The Seattle-based band, which began life as Will Toledo\u2019s solo project in Virginia, brought their rock opera to Seattle, playing just six long songs and a medley.<\/p>\n

Opening with \u201cCCF (I\u2019m Gonna Stay with You),\u201d off their 2025 album \u201cThe Scholars,\u201d Carseat Head Rest provided the kind of cathartic rock-out the crowd was craving. Another new track, \u201cCatastrophe,\u201d exploded with raucous energy before giving way to deep cut \u201cThe Colossus,\u201d which loomed heavy and sinister.<\/p>\n

Few concerts allow for a quick visual-art break, but at Bumbershoot, it\u2019s perfectly reasonable to dip into an art show in the middle of a performance. As Carseat Head Rest worked their way through their set, dozens of people shuffled through an art gallery near the fountain.<\/p>\n

Weezer capped a gorgeous Day One for the festival, closing out with a blitz of feel-good nostalgia that had the crowd singing along and roaring for an encore.<\/p>\n

The band delighted fans mostly with tracks from their 1994 self-titled debut, also known as the \u201cBlue Album,\u201d but they did not play the album front to back. Instead, Weezer got things started with \u201cHash Pipe,\u201d the driving hit off their 2001 \u201cGreen Album.\u201d The intoxicating pull of nostalgia was clear on \u201cMy Name Is Jonas,\u201d led by a stellar 55-year-old Rivers Cuomo. The band played hits off their second album, “Pinkerton,” while the laid-back hit \u201cIsland in the Sun\u201d off the \u201cGreen Album\u201d had fans singing along the loudest.<\/p>\n

After mowing through about 15 songs in an hour, Weezer used the smash single \u201cSay It Ain\u2019t So\u201d to close their pre-encore set. Leaving the crowd chanting for one more song, Weezer came back out to send the people home happy. They capped off Bumbershoot by blasting through a spirited version of \u201cBuddy Holly,\u201d getting the crowd dancing and thinking about the good old days.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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