A second contender for Bumbershoot magic is Mark Pickerel from The Screaming Trees joining Mono in VCF for a Lee Hazelwood cover under a lackluster EMP light show. (He’ll be playing on Monday with his own band.) I hope that all of Bumbershoot magic entrants don’t come from folks doing covers, but there is a certain something special about good covers in general and about the collaborative feel of a live cover at a big festival.

My dream for the last few years has been to play the tambourine in a band, but Nada Surf has showed me an even better dream–playing a box with a tambourine on my foot. I hope that you caught that KEXP broadcast, because live it sounded swell.

Man Man probably wins today’s prize for being the band that frustrated the stage staff the most, showing up 10 minutes late and running onstage to immediately start playing, practically trampling the woman who was supposed to be announcing them/thanking the sponsors. Man Man is like carnies gone bad, and they careened all over the Broad Street stage knocking gear over right and left.