SEATTLE -- Saturday’s MLS Summer Beat concert at Occidental Park in Seattle will prove something of a homecoming for headliner Robert DeLong, a fast-rising, electronic one-man band now based in Los Angeles. And as he returns home five or six times a year, he's noticing the crowds at shows and Sounders matches are seriously overlapping.
“With the confluence of sports and music, in Seattle, those things share a lot of the same people,” he said, recently, on a trip back to town and a walk around downtown. (That's where he'll perform, in Occidental Park, before the March to the Match where the Sounders will take on the Portland Timbers.