Podcast Hotel (no pool, no HBO)

Seattle musicians, if you can tear yourselves away from scanning threeimaginarygirls.com for any mention of your name for just a second and focus here we'd appreciate it. We know you're out there. We also know you're not working and right about now you're wondering how you're going to spend the day. Man, you lazy bastards. Hit the cafe again or just go straight to the bar? Just kidding - We know you're still in bed. As soon as you wake up and see this, though, grab your guitar, that crate of jumbled cord and pedals you haul everywhere, your Marshall head and your girlfriend's ibook and start convincing one of your sucker friends that they need to leave work immediately and drive you to Portland. They'll do it! No one can deny the power of the get-back.

The reason you're Portland-bound, by the way, is because you have to get to the Podcast Hotel event ASAP. They're going to teach you to podcast down there, which just might be your only shot at hooking up with your fan base, because let's face it: Those three chicks from Richland that loved your open-mic have not been by your mom's garage in, like, weeks. Podcast Hotel will get you fixed up with everything you need to get your music on the internet in a form all the geeks are loving right now and KEXP is a sponsor so there's always the pipe dream that someone from the station will be blown away by your unorthodox tuning and know a guy who knows a guy who has another open-mic you should totally play.

For those that are more technically then musically inclined, this should be a great event for you too. Indie music is the focus but there should be a lot to learn for anyone interested in getting into podcasting. Seattle wizard Phillip Torrone of MAKE Magazine will be on loan to Portland for this event and it's worth the drive just to see his ridiculously cool presentations.

Yes, we've heard the rumors that Podcast Hotel may be making a stop in Seattle in the fall, and we have no intention of believing those deliberate lies. The limits those Portlandites will go to protect their technology and their indie rock music from us just boggles the mind. Get yourself down to PDX for this event immediately - Consider it an espionage mission from Seattlest. Better peel a musician or two off the couch to take with you as cover.

Podcast Hotel is Wednesday at Doug Fir and Thursday at Sabala's.