Wow, block party really has a good showing of seattle talent! bumbershit east! bullshit. this show sidesteps so much in order to keep up their scene.

you are a dipshit

Out of over 40 bands, so far 5 aren't from Seattle. Seems like an amazing deal. All the headliners so far charge more for a single show with them than the cost of a ticket to the festival.

Different year, same garbage. *sigh*

Amen. I'm going to Oly. THATS where the talent is. I do not understand why these bands get booked. I know we live in grungeland, but grunge is dead. I killed it.

dyme def bean one go grab a telescope

Against Me!, Leslie and the Lys, Dyme Def, Aesop Rock, Blood Brothers, The Cribs, Grand Archives, The Pharmacy?!? This shit is great. Have fun in Olympia, are there still bands there?

clap clap!

band requests, please:

danielli
megasapien or pris
the boss martians

wasn't spoon suppose to be on the list?

Olympia died in the mid-'90's, nothing left but carnage. All the good local bands have either broken up or moved onto to Portland.

what's with the "esurance" sponsorship/naming rights? i can't fathom that whoring out in such an overt way is worth the extra cash to bring in ridiculously popular out-of-town/big-big name bands. it seems like idea of a neighborhood party has been lost. which, i guess, is fine - call it progress and growth... just maybe not a block party. why is this still taking place on the streets of capitol hill and not some larger venue like volunteer park or even cal anderson?

only heard 2 songs from silversun pickups but didn't like either one. nice pick with the intellegence!

Really dig the diversity of the bands. I love hearing the same 3 chords and "Whoa is me" lyrics all damn day long. God forbid you have a band with a sax in it. Or a real musician. God forgive the transgressions of a city that has no class or intelligence to try something different, for they do not know.

scott, we should meet up at the block party and grab a beer or something. i'd love to hear more about your views on music. you'll find me at the front of the stage wearing an authentic beret from blanq olibet, one of the last true manufacturers of the french beret left in this depraved world, and fanning myself with an authentic fan from china that i got in the zhejiang province (i was there doing field recordings of fishermen fishing for the smithsonian), counting chords and wondering how it is that over the course of two days and three stages not one of the acts has one actual true musician.

Seems the Block Party hit it's peak last year and needn't continue on.

Many are still operating under the misguided assumption that people go to the Block Party for the music. It's actually just an elaborate excuse to have a drunken prelude to a fuckfest.

Like it matters who else is going to be there when Girl Talk throws the biggest summer dance party at Neumos.

yes! more hippy music, more jam bands, less beer in the street and definitely less fucking!

I for one love rock and hip hop and hate hippy bands with saxaphones. sorry all you hippies, you've got folklife, I want to get drunk and rock...and if I'm lucky it's definitely a prelude to a fuckfest - all the more reason to go.

Hey, just wanted to say that hippies love rocking out, hip hop, beer, and fuckfests just as much as the average tight-pants wearing hipster. Actually probably more. We love drugs too. And instead of our DJ's being named "fucking in the streets", we actually bone in the park.

Great lineup Block Party, sock it to em.

Seriously . . . where'd Spoon go?