The Presidents of the United States of America, also known as PUSA for the short-of-breath, saluted their constituents in a show last Friday (Feb. 12) at The Showbox at the Market. (The group also played Feb. 13.)
Unfortunately, I was out of town and missed the concert, which included sets by People Eating People and Black Daisy, as well as an appearance by PUSA co-founder and guitarist Dave Dederer (the band’s current lineup includes singer and “basitarist” Chris Ballew, “guitbassist” and vocalist Andrew McKeag and drummer-vocalist Jason Finn).
Seattle photographer Joe Graziano captured the above photos of the typically hyper-kinetic show. (Check out Graziano’s Web site here).
PUSA — known for its clever and always humorous songs — dubbed the show PUSAfest 10 and its talking about making the multi-act concert an annual event. Read about it on the band’s Web site here. You can also find the band on MySpace.com.
Here’s an interview I did with the band in 2008 for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
And here’s a video of the song “Lump”:
I saw the Saturday night all-ages show with the Young Evils and Jonathon Coulton and it rocked! The all ages crowd was moshing and bouncing all over and singing along to all the old classic Presidents tunes, I blogged about it here and included 7 or 8 videos: http://virtualsoundnw.blogspot.com/2011/02/pusa-fest-at-showbox-feb-19-2011.html