Performing for just the third time ever without her sister, Sara, Tegan Quin shared the stage last night at New York's Housing Works Bookstore Café with author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors).

Considering Bumbershoot's ever-expanding, eclectic lineup -- not to mention other local oddities like the Green River Killer, the Sasquatch, and the Aurora Bridge's Troll -- Seattleites are certainly accustomed to a little weirdness.

Thursday night promises to be full of rare moments for Tegan Quin, half of sister duo Tegan & Sara. She'll be performing a song that she wrote to accompany the audiobook of Augusten Burroughs' A Wolf at the Table for the very first -- and possibly last -- time in front of a live audience, and she'll be appearing for only the third time without her sister, Sara.

The sad truth: Not all youngsters gallivanting under Seattle's Space Needle Monday turned out to heed SPIN deputy editor Steve Kandell's advice and catch indie rock luminaries Superchunk's rare live set in Memorial Stadium.

Sandwiched between sets from Athens, GA's, the Whigs and Minneapolis' Tapes 'n Tapes, it's easy to be overshadowed, but Glasgow rock'n'roll quartet Sons and Daughters found no trouble standing out on their own Sunday evening at the Rockstar Stage, as commanding frontwoman Adele Bethel and axeman/vocalist Scott Paterson led the band through one of the day's most energetic sets.

While fans fisted and elbowed their way to the front of Memorial Stadium Monday night for a closer look at festival-closing headliner Death Cab for Cutie, fellow Seattleites Minus the Bear mounted the Rockstar Stage across the festival grounds and -- with their decidedly different math rock sound -- showed Bumbershoot concertgoers that Ben Gibbard and crew aren't the only heavyweights in town.<