We didn't go to a single concert at the Showbox last year. Ok, so we saw Obama at the SoDo, but that's not nearly the same thing, even though there were bands preceding the politics. It's most unusual for us to have a Showbox-free year, that's for sure. But along with that Gutter Twins show in March, there're a few more events on the Showbox calendar that are worth buying tickets for in advance......

Time magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year: According to Dante, everything else pared in comparison to Daft Punk at WaMu Theater 7/29/07. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

This is the end, the end of free movies, care of Scion. Single tear. Via their Route film series, the youth-oriented car company has already tackled the true-to-life topics of blood diamonds in hip hop and nightclubbing in the late '80s NYC queer community. Now for something completely different: Daft Punk's Electroma is an odyssey of two robots who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become......

firefighter sculpture2 by El Gregein. Anyone else reminded of Daft Punk? Find more happy memory-evoking images in the lovely Seattlest Flickr Pool.......

It’s been just about a week and a half now since the grandmasters of interplanetary French electro-house graced Seattlest’s fine city. Now that the formerly much-anticipated Alive 2007 tour is almost over, Seattlest can only get its Daft Punk fix through the blogosphere, comparing online video posts and reading contentious hipster blogs that argue about at whom’s house the robo-duo first played. Lucky for Seattlest, The Fader’s online blog continues to publish the tour diary......

Last week, Seattlest posed the question, "Just what is WaMu Theater?" According to the comments that followed this question, WaMu Theater is an "insincere" "characterless" "uninviting" "concrete cave" with "crappy sound". Whoa, Seattle. Harsh words. In the interest of fair reporting, we accepted an invitation to speak with Andrew Roe -- Marketing Director and Talent Buyer for AEG Live. We asked Mr. Roe whether there's more to WaMu Theater than what it appears to be......

When entertainment giant AEG Live announced plans to create a new and innovative music venue inside Quest Field Events Center, we imagine a big to do with all the local press in a large room packed with music lovers on one side and bankers on the other. Wonder which side was clapping more wildly... We haven't been to WaMu Theater yet, but with the kind of high-profile shows the place has been booking (Deftones, Daft......

"Daft Punk @ WAMU Center, Seattle, WA, 7/29/2007" by Seattlest's own Donte. Looks like it was an amazing show! Big thanks to Donte and everyone else in the Seattlest Flickr Pool.......

In anticipation of French house DJs Daft Punk's show at WaMu Theatre this Sunday, head to Lower Level at the Capitol Hill Arts Center tonight for a screening of the first film directed by the electro duo: Electroma, a film made by Daft Punk, is an odyssey of two robots who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human. Their symbolic quest, which takes them from......

OMFG! Daft Punk is coming to Seattle! Air too! How do you announce those things on the same day? It's just too much. I can't breathe. I think I'm gonna go lie down until more details on ticket sales are announced. Video of Daft Punk at last year's Coachella after the jump.......

So when you commit yourself to double-booking for an evening, how do you prepare? Ordinarily Seattlest doesn't have an issue since there's a bit of a break between events, or one is low-key, the other more lively, but Monday night we made the decision to not only catch the synthy-goodness that is the Rentals at Neumos, but to catch some of New York's finest MCs at the Boot Camp Clik show at Chop Suey......

What better way to enjoy Memorial Day weekend than under a cloudless sky with a sweltering sun on the hottest day of the year? Seattlest hates hot weather (we tend to sweat easily and a lot), but we braved Saturday's exxxtreme temps to catch some outstanding music at Sasquatch. When it was all said and done, we had seen eight full acts and pieces of another three; we also managed to successfully avoid sunburn.......