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Announced earlier today, the next John in the Morning at Night will take place Friday, March 7th at Neumo's. The lineup so far is the jagged blues-leaning Britrock of The Duke Spirit, the swagger-heavy post-punk of The Voom Blooms (above), and the solid psych alt-country of Tulsa. The latter two bands have never played Seattle before, so this is your first chance to catch 'em live. And who knows? When it comes to KEXP shows, another band or two could always get added to the bill.

It’s one of those Sunday mornings where the air is very still and heavy, and the dim light is giving you plenty of room to recover from Saturday night. For us, it’s the perfect time to visit the newest Victrola Coffee location on Pike Street.

When the Croc closed last December, Black Mountain was already scheduled to play the venue in early February. Luckily, Neumo's knew better than to leave the druggy psychedelic rock five-piece high and dry - they added Black Mountain to the bill of tomorrow night's show, creating a truly awesome (and diverse) bill. Along with BM's Zep-meets-Sabbath-meets-heavy, acid-laced spacerock, Thursday's lineup also includes the groovy, '70s folk-twinged Americana of Howlin Rain, the tongue-in-cheek electro-pop of the perpetually be-caped MGMT, and the complex polyrhythms and world music-leaning harmonies of buzz band Yeasayer. It's rare you find a couple good performers on a bill, let alone three or four well worth seeing live. Tomorrow night at Neumo's you just can't go wrong. We can only imagine what the crowd's going to be like.

We saw fine young Canadians Tokyo Police Club about a year ago and have been itching to see 'em headline a show ever since. Now's our chance, as the boys are back tonight at Neumo's with White Rabbits and the Virgins in tow. TPC are still working on their debut full-length for Saddle Creek, but they do have another single under their belt (the above "Your English is Good"), as well as a second EP. So altogether, they've got just shy of a dozen songs in their discography, including b-sides, only one of which cracks the three-minute mark. With that in mind, it may be a short set. Nah, we're sure the high-energy, clap-happy, uber-friendly kids will totally find a way to stretch their material to an hour. Semi-ironical covers and new songs please!

Considering this is Pride Weekend, you've got a bevy of options for live music in between bouts of sodomy, muff-diving, tina-using, and/or trips to Home Depot.

Tomorrow night, fun-time hip hop trio and sworn defenders of the Constitutionally-protected right to party™ the Saturday Knights are playing a free show (a "boozy little shindig") at Havana, along with the high-energy rock quartet the Cops.

Victrola Coffee has their new roasteria location down at Pike and Terry, up from Six Arms, and they're holding public coffee cuppings on Wednesdays to let people in on a more behind-the-roaster view of their morning bean beverage. We've done this, and it's fun, but we warn you that we left thinking hummingbirds looked old and slow. While you're there, try out the new comfy chairs for us. We only had time to snap a picture.

PUPPETS: Puppets are cute when you're a kid, but when you get older they're a bit creepy. Creepy though they may be, Drunk Puppet Night removes the kid context and serves up "mature" puppetry, which may or may not involve tales about puppets trying to make rent. Continues March 2, 3, 9, 10.

MUSIC: Dancing on the Valentine features wall-to-wall Duran Duran songs covered by local bands, including Say Hi to Your Mom, Valu-Pak, Speaker Speaker, and Peter Parker, all to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

ART: OKOK's move to Ballard has been good for them. The new space puts more focus on the art, separating it a bit from the (still great) retail. Free Parking, a new group drawing exhibit, opens today with works from ten artists.

*Sample set: Live on Mix Up Radio Australia, November 2006

SEX: Sex-positive retailer Babeland closes out 2006 with their annual three day sale, with even some of their most popular toys marked down 25%. Let's face it, the other gifts you may have received this holiday season won't provide the long-term satisfaction something you pick up here will.

DONATE: For as much as gamers earn their nerdy reputations (and thus our ridicule), Child's Play gives them a chance to both share their geek pride and help the world around them through donations to help kids in hospitals. You want to help too, right?

It's been forever since we've heard from local sketch comedy troupe Train of Thought. Alright, so it hasn't even been a month since they kicked off their participation in JibJab's Great Sketch Experiment (you can still vote on that for another week here), and they're already performing again at the Northwest Actor's Studio. While their new show is overall middling, it's peppered with moments of sheer brilliance.

When the Absurd Reality Theatre's production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) kicked things off with a recitation of the flight attendant safety speech, Seattlest buckled up for a long night. Even though the production is advertised as "3 men, 37 plays, 90 minutes," the play dragged. And we're pretty sure it's not the work as written (by Jess Borgeson, Adam Long, and Daniel Singer), since we've heard from friends who've seen other productions that it's a good show. There were a few moments with energy and wit (the PowerPoint presentation covering all of Shakespeare's comedies being the stand-out), but anytime the trio got some energy and momentum, it was quickly dashed by lame off-script bantering. There were also staging problems, in that leaving the audience staring at an empty stage for extended periods of time is never a good idea.

There was a time about a year ago, when we went to dinner at the Oasis Cafe for the first time, and, after receiving average food and abominable service, we vowed never to go there again. Fast forward to last night: we were hungry for sushi, while our companion for the evening was hungry for Thai. So we figured, what the hell, we'd give that pan-Asian Oasis another try. This time around, the food was good, and the service was a little bit better (though still terribly slow). We'd be willing to venture there again, but only if we had a lotta time to kill and were craving some gigantic sushi maki.

Do you remember the nineties, when electronic music was hailed as the "next big thing?" MTV had its show Amp, which showed nothing but videos from electronic artists (some of them absolutely amazing). The rave scene was in full swing, and glowstick shares were trading up. Of course it couldn't last, and it didn't.

There is nothing quite like finding the perfect t-shirt. The t-shirt that speaks to you on a deeper level, that makes you smile, makes you laugh, or just shows off the results of your time in the gym. There's also the self-branding involved with wearing a shirt of your favorite band, team, university, or witty phrase. Here at Seattlest, we understand the plight of the male in search for the right shirt, and we're here to help. Below is our guide to finding your own cotton/poly blend here in town. (Ladies, we think you're fine just the way you are, and since you can't throw a rock without hitting a boutique in this town, you'll have to take consolation in the fact that most of these stores cater to the fairer sex as well).