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Seattle native TD Sidell's rap group Big Digits have unleashed a new video epic. They will perform live at the Baltic Room on June 20. Mark your calendars.

The Big Digits performance in front of an intimate gathering of elite strangers in the basement of somebody's house in the central district last February was one of the weirdest, most intense shows we've seen this year (TD Sidell really puts the "aerobics" in "punk rock aerobics"), and their "rap battle" with arch foes Cancer Rising last year is also impossible to forget, no matter how much KUBE 93 we expose ourselves to. Tonight's spectacle at the High Dive (9:30pm; $6) will hopefully live up to these inflated expectations. Trust Seattlest as we insist this is the most important live music option for you this weekend and go forth with your hopes raised.

Now that there's a chill in the air, Seattlest has taken to closing our windows at night before curling up in a warm bed with some hot cocoa and earplugs. That's right, it's officially the fall tour season, and there's live music galore. Behold!

Will the beautiful weather stick around for our weekend? If it does, plans may change and you may see us prancing through various municipal parks. As of now, however, here's how the weekend's shaking out.

The Boston-area rap duo Big Digits will make their triumphant return to our side of the hood Saturday, nearly one year after their victorious "rap battle in Seattle" (Get it? It rhymes...) whereby their west coast rivals Cancer Rising "got served" a rap-tastic smackdown that shamed Larry Mizell into hiding. But seriously: The show Big Digits put on last May at the Lo_Fi was one of the year's best performances, particularly for the insane, indescribable dance moves of former Punk Rock Aerobics genius T.D. Sidell (see photo above), endowed with a God like kinetic energy power that would make Bruce Lee look like Richard Simmons if Lee wasn't already dead.

The perennial "east coast vs. west coast" divisions that have plagued the rap genre for eons may finally reach a dramatic climax tonight as rival rap bands Big Digits (of Boston) and Cancer Rising (representin' Seattle) converge at the Lo Fi Gallery at 429B Eastlake, a mere gold chain's toss north of beloved hip-hop hang-out REI.