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Q: ARE WE NOT MEN?: A: Nah, we're new wave! Get out your red plastic hat, get de-evolved, and get boogying!

TIGER LILLIES: Seattle’s Cabaret Festival kicks off tonight with the beautifully hellish Tiger Lillies. The UK trio uses accordion, ukulele, upright bass, saw, theremin, the tiniest adult drum set we’ve ever seen, and leader Martyn Jacques’ beautifully tortured falsetto to tell tales of doomed prostitutes, pressganged sailors, and the terrifically deformed. Tonight, they’re focusing on songs from Shockheaded Peter, the musical adaptation of the German fable book (Hint: the children don’t fare well), and The Gorey End, their collaboration with dark cartoonist Edward Gorey that began with some of his unpublished stories and ended with his death. We can’t wait.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? attracts a good crowd. Last night at Chop Suey, the angular British electro-rock four-piece had an audience of fans eager to dance, sing and clap along, and once (just once) send someone aloft crowd surfing. For the rest of the show, DIOYY acted as the big beats soundtrack to a dark and bangin' dance party. Morgan Quaintance provided more cowbell (see above), while singer James Rushent yelped the vocals--that is, when he wasn't singing into his Robototron 3000™ microphone, as on "We Are Rockstars." Of course, the set's highlight was their classic track "Let's Make Out" and of course, after the demands from the crowd for "one more song," they returned to the stage for their not-at-all-ironic cover of Devo's "Whip It." And then they sent us out into the cool night with a heavily accented word of "Fanks." Well played, DIOYY, well played.

Since there's a "Blogger Lounge" here at MacWorld, we figured we'd use it. What the hell.