From the inbox, Bumbershoot lineup preview

Check it out! The first details for the 38th Annual Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, Presented by Samsung Mobile, have been announced! The full lineup won't be revealed until later in the summer, but this sneak peek gives you a glimpse at what's coming your way over Labor Day Weekend (August 30–September 1) at Seattle Center.

The lineup for this year includes:

MUSIC

Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Ingrid Michaelson, Del Tha Funky 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 and many more to be announced.

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LITERARY ARTS

This year's Literary Arts program welcomes graphic novelists Dan Clowes and Adrian Tomine, sci-fi legend William Gibson, a special edition of Starlee Kine and Arthur Jones' Post-It Note Reading Series, authors Nathan McCall, Francesca Lia-Block, Kevin Sessums, and more.

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You reach the base of the Mountain of Cultural Momentum. There appears to be an abandoned coffee house. Suddenly, you are attacked by a tribe of neo-Luddites! [...] From the coffee house ruins emerge a horde of Dire Postmodernists.

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