Finally, after five years of screwing around, making babies and whatnot, Imperial Teen are back with a new album and touring the country with their made-in-California indie pop. The not-so-teenage rockers roll into town today for a free in-store at Easy Street (Queen Anne), then on to the Crocodile. 8pm // Easy Street Records // Free! 9pm // The Crocodile Cafe // $12......

First things first: the Tegan and Sara show at the Triple Door tonight is sold out, but we did see a lot of SRO happening last night, so you might take your chances. Or simply show up at the Queen Anne Easy Street Records at 4pm today for their in-store appearance. Either way, they come highly recommended by us, and you might as well make plans to see them at the Showbox on December 3.......

In the spirit of an earlier post in which we asked you to vote for your top-five albums of 2006 via KEXP, Seattlest would now love it if you'd narrow it down to your top-five Northwest albums via Three Imaginary Girls. In addition to letting your voice be heard, the girls are promising that every ballot cast will be entered into a drawing for a "prize pack of fun imaginary goodies." We admit, this one......

Continuing on with Musical Muwednesday you should pay attention to the band with the coolest name, if not the most original sound, ever: Editors are at Easy Street for a 6:30 in-store today if you're looking to get all close and personal with the boys. The Brits absolutely crush on these guys and when have they ever been wrong. Still, you haven't made it until you've rocked Easy Street Records. I saw Editors play to......

Back in 2002, the Crocodile had a perfect storm of a show, and not-yet-Seattlest was lucky enough to be in attendance for a bill whose lineup still gets followed to this day. The earnest indie rock of Mellowdrone, followed by the Brit-rock-with-tender-voices of both South and Elbow prompted Seattlest to spend more on merch at that show than has been spent since. As album release cycles go, they all still tend to hit Seattle on......

Seattlest serves up musical jambalaya for the masses… Delicious! Monday 27th: >>Listening Party at Easy Street Records! First chance to hear The Flaming Lips’ At War With The Mystics and Built To Spill’s You In Reverse, have some drinks and win some prizes! Drink and appetizer specials on hand of course! And who knows, maybe you'll see a bunny or two... 6-8pm, all ages welcome, 21+ over in the bar >>Metric at The Showbox… Intense,......

Thursday night Norwegian Even Johansen of Magnet and Isobel Campbell of Isobel played at the Triple Door. Ah, the Triple Door! Seattlest had the mocha chocolate chip souffle, which takes about a half hour to cook up, but it's worth it. We thought a pint of Guinness might complement the one-boy-band vocal stylings of Magnet, as we were very familiar with Guinness and not at all familiar with the band. Even [sic] is touring in......

Over at the mass-market music stores like Sam Goody and FYE, the “Best-Seller” lists are occupied by those finger-puppets artists you’d expect to hear on KISS 106.1 or KUBE 93 (i.e. Black-Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, Jamie Foxx). Meanwhile, at Seattle’s two most successful indie-music shops, Easy Street Records (West Seattle, Queen Anne), and Sonic Boom Records (Ballard, Capitol Hill, Fremont), they too maintain Top-Seller lists—along with earthy atmospheres, scruffy sales clerks (many of whom are......