Maybe there’s some weird voodoo curse on us, but for whatever reason, YuppiePunk World HQ simply never makes it out to all three days of Bumbershoot, Seattle’s annual music, arts and comedy festival held over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center. And this year is no exception, with us missing the festival’s first day featuring Ray LaMontagne, Presidents of the United States of America, Pentagram, STRFKR and dozens more. But we finally got it together and got off our couch for day two, having finally conquered level 8 of Bonker Jerks and consumed a four-pack of Four Loko, which gave us the motivation we needed to brave the crowds, the sun and the Butthole Surfers. Here are some highlights.

We started our day with a little Tennis, not on the court but on the stage of the KEXP music lounge, a nice way to see a band in a more intimate setting than at the rest of the festival. Denverites Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley make up the group, who won today’s award for the preppiest couple (they’re married). He was wearing loafers, she was wearing a ridiculously dense head of hair.

We went to a reading and Q&A from queen groupie Pamela Des Barres, who you can see here showing the crowd the size of Jimmy Page’s zeppelin.

Woah, the three dudes from No Means No got super old when we weren’t looking. They may have been the only band on the day to feature all members sporting gray hair. They still rocked like young whippersnappers though, blazing through a set of quirky, angular punk rock.

The Jim Jones Revue sound like what Jerry Lee Lewis might have if he were a punk. This is Jim Jones and his Gibson ES-335.

Atari Teenage Riot brought some thumping bass to accompany their futuristic German hyper-speed electro-punk mayhem. And also lasers, lots of lasers.

Portland, Oregon folkies AgesandAges played a feel-good set with lots of hand claps and lots of harmonies.

John Van Deusen of The Lonely Forest demonstrates the white man’s overbite during their acoustic set on the Toyota Free Yr Radio stage.

Activist punks Anti-Flag sang about important stuff, like woah-woahs and yeah-yeahs.

There are few things microphones fear more than Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers’ tongue.

And congratulations to Jeff Pinkus, the Butthole’s bassist, who not only had the best beard of the day, but also the best t-shirt. Amen brother, we ♥ butt drugs too.

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