"rainbow power" by thedistantatlantic We're sure it's been said before, but it begs repeating--Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips is an angel. Sent from the heavens, he was, with a pink shirt and something to say. During last Monday's Sasquatch! performance, Coyne spoke of peace, of love, and of the crucial need for all of us to get off our collective ass and fix our country. This was our first time seeing the Lips. It......

Right on the heels of the announcement that the Mars Volta was added to the Sasquatch lineup, and right before tickets go on sale this Saturday, the three-day music festival has seen fit to delineate who will be playing on which day: Saturday, May 24th R.E.M. / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / The New Pornographers / The National / Ozomatli / Beirut / Dengue Fever / Fleet Foxes / The Breeders / Okkervil River......

After months of wild speculation, the official 2008 Sasquatch lineup has finally been announced: R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / The Presidents / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers......

Remember a few years back when "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" came out and the Flaming Lips were suddenly everywhere? Mitsubishi started using "Do You Realize" to hawk their cars and Justin Timberlake was dressing up in a dolphin suit and jumping on stage during Lips shows? For a few glorious moments the hipsters and frat boys were humming the same tune, and no one seemed to mind. Flash forward to early 2007 and......

Dr. Dog is a terrible name for a band. Based on that name alone, we'd expect them to be in the vein of Skynrd or perhaps really bad white guy jazz. But instead the Philly quintet make feel-good tunes that, with all the layered harmonies and old-school production, could pass as Beatles b-sides. Their last album Easy Beat contained at least four full-fledged grade-A tracks, including jangly charmer "Say Something" [mp3]. New album We All......

SPELLING: Rarely does an adult get to display a skill so mundane as spelling, and rarer still does an adult have an opportunity to engage in feats of spelling in front of an audience and within the context of a competition, but tonight at the Re-bar is just such an opportunity. We're still in negotiations withe the Re-bar rules committee to see if Seattlest's spelling stand-in FireFox 2.0 is eligible to compete. 7pm // Re-bar......

Wednesday, January 3 >>> The Intelligence at Chop Suey. We're still waiting for a new album from these local guys - hopefully one that's more Google-able than their 2005 Icky Baby. This show also includes Partman Parthorse and our personal faves the Pleasureboaters. 8pm; $6. 21+ Thursday, January 4 >>> Kled at the High Dive. Tonight's lineup boasts some of our favorite band names in town, including A Gun that Shoots Knives and We......

After the storm passed, most of the crowd reappeared for mainstage-only performances -- the two side stages were shut down. The Tragically Hip picked up where Neko had left off. (MSN Video has excerpts, and is going to be adding more from the whole concert over the week -- they're hoping for around 5 hours of video.) We're not that down with the Hip's brand of vocal stylings and improvisational soliloquizing but we have to......

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,......

Do you realize...that the definitive Flaming Lips documentary is currently showing at the Northwest Film Forum? Director Bradley Bessley followed the Lips for over a decade to make The Fearless Freaks, and somehow he had enough brain cells left to edit all his footage and put together a cohesive portrait of the band. Beesley is a long-time Flaming Lips contributor, both as the director of photography on basically all of their music videos and as......