Get Out Saturday: The Long Winters at the Showbox

"The Long Winters 01" by Flickr user Michael Alan Goldberg

When John Roderick isn't writing hilarious lies about other musicians, he's fronting one of Seattle's best indie rock bands, The Long Winters.

When last we saw The Long Winters, roughly one year ago, it was also at the Showbox and it was one of the best shows we've ever seen there. Roderick and company had just returned home from a lengthy tour and they seemed hell bent on making this, the final show of the tour, the best. Now we didn't follow them around the country like slobbering groupies, but we can say this with some certainty: If the previous shows on this tour displayed even a fraction of the energy, charisma, and unapologetic bravado that this one did, well, that'd be like, super-human or something.

Opening the show are beloved Seattle bands Boat, and The Cops. We saw Boat open for The Presidents at last year's Pyramid Ale Get Snowed In party--they rocked the house (or the tent) with their indie pop awesomeness. And we saw The Cops at this year's Sasquatch! Festival, after which, we kicked ourselves for having waited so long to finally check them out. Rock. Rock. Rock.

8 p.m. // Showbox at the Market // $16 // 21+

Psst... The Long Winters also play tomorrow, July 4th, 7 p.m. at the 107.7 The End Beach House with End-A-Roke and The Saturday Knights.

We leave you now with this tasty nugget, in which Boat's D. Crane interviews The Long Winters' John Roderick [via Three Imaginary Girls].