Woo hoo! Friends of Seattlest Mean Recess are releasing a CD Saturday at Jules Mae, a release which Seattlest quite possibly personally caused to be delayed, by the way. Man Rockwell and Spanish for 100 are also playing and there's no YouTube for any of them, sadly. Also, Seattlest's own Kim Ruehl is at Cafe Bella downtown tonight at 9.
Interest conflicts out of the way, let's go to the video. One of YouTube's big accomplishments is the bigtime way it's brought back guitar wanking. Steve Vai, obviously, has a lot of videos up, but our favorite is him getting vanquished in this guitar battle with Johnny Cade.
Ugh, see? We just spent the last 8:46 watching it yet again. Vai is at the Moore on Saturday.
Everett's Paperboys are doing one of their weekend-long stints at the Tractor.
Animal Collective is at Neumos tonight. Here they are recently at the Vic Theater in Chicago:
Medeski Martin and Wood will be appearing as Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood tonight at the Moore. Scofield is this guy:
The best band ever is playing tonight and tomorrow at the Showbox. Unless the New Pornographers are too poppy for you, in which case you're wrong.



But wait there's more:
Sonic Boom is hosting A.C. Newman (of very poppy The New Pornographers) for a live DJ-set, in-store. Saturday, September 15 at 6PM at their Capitol Hill store.
You should warn people that if they scroll past these YouTube-heavy posts as fast as they can, it could induce seizures.