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The Twenty Best Live Music Shows I Saw at Bumbershoot 2012 [Photo Gallery]

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M. Ward at Bumbershoot 2012.
Keane at Bumbershoot 2012.
The Young Evils, Bumbershoot 2012.
Unnatural Helpers at Bumbershoot 2012.
Super Geek League at Bumbershoot 2012.
Passion Pit at Bumbershoot 2012.
Eighteen Individual Eyes at Bumbershoot 2012.
Katie Kate at Bumbershoot 2012.
Prong at Bumbershoot 2012.
JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound at Bumbershoot 2012.
Ana Tijoux, Bumbershoot 2012.
Foxy Shazam at Bumbershoot 2012.
Mudhoney at Bumbershoot 2012.
THEESatisfaction at Bumbershoot 2012.
Don't Talk to the Cops at Bumbershoot 2012.
The Dirtbombs at Bumbershoot 2012.
King Khan and the Shrines at Bumbershoot 2012.
Lee Fields and the Expressions at Bumbershoot 2012.
TacocaT at Bumbershoot 2012.
Reignwolf at Bumbershoot 2012.

M. Ward sings a sad song. (photo by Tony Kay)

Tom Chaplin of Keane keeps a stiff upper lip. (photo by Tony Kay)

Mackenzie Mercer, youngest Young Evil, in action at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

Unnatural Helpers: Best band with a singing drummer since Night Ranger. (photo by Tony Kay)

If you've seen one band with mutant eyeballs and butterfly women on stilts, you've seen 'em all: Super Geek League at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

Passion Pit: Hot mess gets anthemic at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

Irene Barber, four of Eighteen Individual Eyes' eyes. (photo by Tony Kay)

Katie Kate was greaty-great at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

Lesser mortals ran like scared children from the onslaught: Tommy Victor of Prong at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

JC Brooks stops the show at the KEXP Lounge. (photo by Tony Kay)

Ana Tijoux rocks it, Chilean style. (photo by Tony Kay)

Foxy Shazam rocks the Exhibition Hall. (photo by Tony Kay)

Mudhoney's Mark Arm, still whippet-thin and dangerous. (photo by Tony Kay)

Stasia of THEESatisfaction rocks her finest roller boogie ensemble at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay).

Don't Talk to the Cops! Unless you're lost or something. (photo by Tony Kay)

Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs does some Bumber-damage. (photo by Tony Kay)

Ever the wallflower: King Khan of the Shrines holds court at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

You will never, ever be this cool: Lee Fields and the Expressions work the Tunein Stage at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

Bubbles and punk rock--they go together like, um, bubbles and punk rock: TacocaT at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay)

Reignwolf blasts the roof off the Starbucks Stage at Bumbershoot 2012. (photo by Tony Kay).

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Now that the Bumbershoot tsunami has subsided, it’s time to sift through my photos of some 41 (holy cow!) bands and offer some sort of overview of what I saw and heard.

I enjoyed all of the acts that I caught this weekend on Bumbershoot’s smaller stages, and discovered more than a few pleasant surprises (more on that later this week). But of all of the live music performances I witnessed last weekend, these twenty were the most prominent keepers for me.

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