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• The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Black Ends

  21-08-2026 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city.
  On Apple, you can subscribe to the video podcast here.
  On YouTube here.
  This Week’s episode features Black Ends!We’ve loved Black Ends for years, at least
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 21–23, 2026

  21-08-2026 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Hate to break it to ya, but there’s officially only four weekends left in summer. Take advantage of our dwindling sunny days at cheap and cheerful events from Festival Sundiata’s Black Arts Fest to Hai! Japantown and from SOUK Seattle to the 16th Annual Off The Wall + 13th & Fir Mural Reveal Party. For more ideas, check out top picks of the week.FRIDAYLIVE MUSICBupp! // Treefold
  You never quite know what you’re going to get from local experimental band Bupp!, but that&rsqu
  
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• Slog AM: High-T Navy May Name Aircraft Carrier After Noted Coward, Wildfires Cost Washington $207 Million in Two Months, and After Husband Dies in Alaska, Mexican Widow Not Allowed into US 

  21-08-2026 18:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Local coffee roaster and cafe operator Starbucks is laying off 224 of its employees, including 120 people who didn’t want to relocate to Nashville and live the honky-tonk life. The affected workers live in Seattle and beyond. The company said the layoffs are the “final piece” of its global restructuring plan, reports KING 5.The price of climate denial grows: According to the Washington State Standard, fighting the 20 wildfires crisping Washington this July and August cost $207
  
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• The Stranger’s Exhaustively Comprehensive Bursting-at-the Seams Guide to Bumbershoot 2026!

  21-08-2026 01:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Phew! Another music festival? But it’s almost September! Isn’t it time to go back to school and drink hot cocoa under a cozy blanket and pretend to care about football? No! There is still summer fun to be had, as exhausted as you may be, because Bumbershoot is taking over the Seattle Center September 5 and 6 with two days of music, comedy, art, wrestling, fashion, and so much more. (Like, literally there is a mermaid???)We know how overwhelming festivals can be, and this year&r
  
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• Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Saturday

  21-08-2026 01:03 via thestranger.com
  
  KEY:
  ⭐ Don’t Miss
  📍 Local!⭐ 📍 ANTHERS
  This comparison will only resonate with maybe six people, but I’m gonna say it anyway: If you loved long-defunct Seattle punk rock noise makers pleasureboaters, go see ANTHERS and party like you’re at Healthy Times Fun Club circa 2008. Not a 40-something who lived in Seattle nearly two decades ago? Fine. Here are some more rock bona fides—ANTHERS’ latest singles, “Soup” and “Colle
  
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• Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Sunday

  21-08-2026 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  KEY:
  ⭐ Don’t Miss
  📍 Local!📍 American Flats
  If you need a break from all the modern music pummeling your eardrums, catch local American Flats, who describe themselves as “a rock and roll band with Americana and punk influences.” It’s not revelatory, it’s not perfect, but it’s a warm hug if you’re longing for those days of seeing Tom Petty at the Gorge every summer. (Upper Courtyard Stage) MEGAN SELINGATARASHII GAKKO!
  If you love J-
  
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• Every Arts District at Bumbershoot 2026

  21-08-2026 00:59 via thestranger.com
  
  ⭐ Means don’t miss it!⭐ Bumbermania
  In which local wrestling crew SOS Wrestling builds a real-deal ring in the middle of the Seattle Center, and dozens of local wrestling superstars (66, to be exact!) fight, tackle, pummel, and toss one another around for a chance at the Bumbermania belt. It’s so fun, so captivating, that I missed part of Janelle Monáe’s headlining set last year because I couldn’t look away. MEGAN SELINGCat Circus
  It is my journalist
  
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• Who Said It?

  21-08-2026 00:58 via thestranger.com
  While waiting for Death Cab for Cutie to take the stage Sunday night, see if you can guess who penned each line of morbid prose—Ben Gibbard or 19th-Century gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe!1. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”2. “Oh, how this penchant is a curse / All the way from the cradle to the hearse / And there are days when I wish you’d just become / An acqua
  
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