Brooklyn's finest indie pop dance duo Matt & Kim will be headlining a show tonight at the Showbox, playing songs off of their two older releases (2006's Self Titled and 2009's Grand,) and hopefully sneaking in some songs off their November 2 release, Sidewalks. As we mentioned before, rumor has it their live shows are crazy, high energy fun, (Pitchfork said they put on "one of the most ridiculously fun live shows on the planet") and we can't wait to report back our findings. more ›

Oh, hello crazies. Mike Stark of the Huffington Post and FireDogLake chased down Republicans in D.C. to ask if they believe our President is a native-born citizen of our country. And who's that, second in the video, unwilling to call out a lunatic fringe movement? Why that would be Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), who has represented Washington's 5th District (which includes Spokane) since 2005 and "would like to see the documents." more ›

As far as we can tell, Icy Demons are neither icy nor demons. Instead, they are fronted by a guy playing upright bass and wearing panda pants who could easily be Wesley Willis' nephew. The Demons kinda remind us of The Unicorns, in that every song seems to contain bits and pieces of multiple songs from multiple genres, both hits and misses. For the final song of the Chicago band's all-over-the-place opening set, the aforementioned potentially crazy guy jumped into the Neumo's audience and got all up in our dear Donte's grill, the result of which is the photo on the left. According to Donte, he is indicating, "I want YOU to rock out to our fun, loud, weird music!" but we're pretty sure he was getting ready to attack, schizophrenic hobo-style. more ›

Travis Arket, one of the three founding members of Seattle-based Team Robot House to take part in a Himalayan rickshaw race to raise money for Mercy Corps earlier this summer, hardly knows how to begin to describe their adventure. "It was so surreal, so condensed. Think Indiana Jones meets Commando meets Ghandi meets Hotel Rwanda, mashed up into a ball and forced down your throat. Luckily we have most of it on video," he says. "Absolute insanity. Overwhelming," his teammate Matt Crabtree agrees. The team raised thousands of dollars for charity, and the donations are still rolling in. more ›

"How I spent my Sunday" by Todd Bates more ›

Last night, a besuited Crispin Hellion Glover took the stage at Broadway Performance Hall with the perfunctory greeting: "Good evening. Presently, I will read to you from eight books." And he did. more ›