The Week's Picks...

Seattlest serves up musical jambalaya for the masses… Delicious!

Monday 27th:

>>Listening Party at Easy Street Records! First chance to hear The Flaming Lips’ At War With The Mystics and Built To Spill’s You In Reverse, have some drinks and win some prizes! Drink and appetizer specials on hand of course! And who knows, maybe you'll see a bunny or two...
6-8pm, all ages welcome, 21+ over in the bar

>>Metric at The Showbox… Intense, lovely, capricious
8pm, $15

>>Pretty Girls Make Graves along with the Helio Sequence and DJ Child of the Dust at the Premier. –Brought to you by Filter Magazine.
8pm, 21+, Admission and beer: FREE (Last we heard, there should still be room for ye…)

Tuesday 28th:

>> We Are Scientists at the Crocodile. Three-piece rock with nice bass-lines.
(We Are Scientists also play a live/free, in-store at the Queen Anne Easy Street Records at 6pm)
$12 at the door.

>> Jason Collett (of Broken Social Scene) at the Sunset Tavern with Kimya Dawson (of the Moldy Peaches).
9pm, $10

>> the Octopus Project at the Paradox… They're from Austin, and while some would compare them to the Postal Service just because they may use similar production, that really isn't fair.
7:30pm, $7

Wednesday 29th:

>> NME's favorite band ever, Arctic Monkeys play a long sold-out show at the Croc. –We just wish we were going…
9:30pm

>>Trespassers William bring their So-Cal psychedelic folk-pop to Chop Suey for a CD release party, with Fair, Rafe Pearlman and Drive By Star, and Lucy Bland
8pm, $7

>> Seattle Symphony + Russian National Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony and Schostakovich's 5th Symphony at Benaroya Hall … glasnost, we hardly knew ye…
7:30pm, tickets: $30 to $85

>>Gogol Bordello at Neumos, watch Seattlest for show preview.
8pm, $12

Thursday 30th:

>>Silver-throated chanteuse, Feist plays with a full band at Neumo's. Stephen Fretwell opens. Seattlest says, “She's part of the broken social scene collective. 'nuff said. The fact she's got a killer set of pipes is a bonus.”
9pm, $13 advance/$15 at the door

>>Speaker Speaker at El Corazon, winner of The Stranger's Big Shot Award
8pm, $6

Friday 31st:

>>Young Sportsman on KEXP’s John in the Morning
Have a taste, then see them live and in the flesh, Saturday @ High Dive (See Below for more info on that).
9am

...Friday night... um, rent a movie or something...

Saturday, April 1st:
>>Young Sportsman with Llama and Kingsley @ High Dive
Seattlest doesn’t know the other two bands well, but Young Sportmen deliver a high-octane live show. (Even more Young Sportsmen to come later this week… )
A benefit show for Crisis Clinic
9:30pm, $6

Sunday:

>>Recover from Saturday night rock. Hello Mr. Bubble!