HIP WITH A SIDE OF HIP: sometimes you really don't want to like an indie band because they just seem too cool. With Tokyo Police Club, maybe you just need to deal with it. Tonight you can check out the Ontario natives being cool (and rocking, too) with Freelance Whales at Neumo's. more ›

EVERYBODY HAVE FUN TONIGHT bet you didn't know Wang Chung was still together, and better yet...still touring. But rejoice, they're here tonight. You hear that? WANG CHUNG TONIGHT!! Love Vigilantes opens. more ›

LOCALS ONLY now that we're a few days in to KEXP's summer drive, are you (very, very) aware of how important supporting local music is? Of course you are. Tonight The Crocodile & 107.7 The End Present: Locals Only with: Born Anchors, Campfire Ok, and The Royal Bear. more ›

IT'S REALLY A BAND NAME: ...Psychedelic Horseshit. We don't really know that much about this band, that plays The Comet tonight. But how could we pass up the opportunity to say "Hey, go see Psychedelic Horseshit!". As if that's not great enough, they're playing with Eat Skull, Wet Paint, and Eel Eater. It's like what we dreamed rock concerts would be like when we were little. more ›

Music: Cat Power, Chan (short for Charlyn) Marshall, brings her insanity-influenced act to our frozen burg. Right now she's walking around town, melting the ice with that impish smile of hers. more ›

, an examination of a remarkable woman who wrote genderbending science fiction stories while leading, in effect, a double life. Writing as James Tiptree, Jr., she led editors and readers alike to believe that she was a man for ten years. Robert Silverberg famously wrote an introduction to an anthology of her work in which he dismissed rumors about Tiptree's gender because of the 'ineluctably masculine' nature of 'his' writing. Soon afterward, Tiptree was revealed to be 'an old lady in Virginia' named Alice Sheldon. more ›

At a time when we're all asking ourselves what makes a terrorist be a terrorist--especially lately, with reports that the first set of London bombers may not have known they were on a suicide mission--comes along a novel that reimagines the 1974 Patty Hearst hoohah to address such issues. more ›