Keeping in line with last week's rumors, the official word came in this morning that yes, Radiohead would be playing the Seattle area on August 20th, and yes, the show would take place at the middle-of-nowhere shit venue White River Amphitheatre. Expected, but still disappointing. Look, even Thom is upset. Dates and venues have been confirmed for the second leg of Radiohead's upcoming North American tour. They are: August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago,......

Tomorrow Live at KEXP Volume Three is available for purchase online and at music stores around town. Seattlest Jack has already given his play-by-play of the album. It seems that he's partial to Ghostland Observatory's "Move with Your Lover" and Lady Sovereign's "Public Warning," while we have always been a sucker for the lilting live version of Grizzly Bear's "Knife." You can read about all the CD's tracks and hear a thirty-second sample of......

Rob Gordon once said, "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules." Thanks Rob. Well said. If Rob's take......

Last night at the Moore, in a “stars – they’re just like us!” moment, we spotted the sisters of Smoosh as well as Martha Plimpton. Of course, they were just part of the sold-out crowd for the strong double-bill of Grizzly Bear and Feist. At this point, we’ve seen Grizzly Bear approximately nine million (ok, four) times, so we kinda know what to expect: the Brooklyn quartet will seem to be wearing the same......

Ah, the festival. The half-pound Gorge Burger, the ten-dollar beer, the fragrant smell of weed and clove cigarettes carried along by an occasional, much appreciated breeze. And of course, all that music. By the time our feet hit festival ground, Viva Voce were setting up at the Yeti Stage. We got our burger and a beer and settled in for a bit of Seattlest's favorite married rock couple. We hadn't seen Viva Voce live......

For once, it was actually nice weather at the Gorge for Sasquatch. Last year was all sturm und drang and the year previous was approximately the temperature of the sun, but the gods smiled down on all gathered in George, Washington yesterday afternoon, as it was a pleasant 80 degrees under partly cloudy skies. Our day started off at the Yeti Stage (where the Wookie stage used to be - when did that happen?)......

We saw it first in this month's Seattle Sound magazine, but then we misplaced it somewhere, so we grabbed the current Stranger and -- ah, there they are: The stage times for all the performers at this weekend's Sasquatch Festival along with the inevitable, unavoidable conflicts that occur at all festivals. They did a pretty good job of staggering the times, but there are still some "What do we do?!" moments. We know we're going......

Dammit! From the Sasquatch site: Unexpected delays in the processing and issuance of M.I.A.’s artist visa have forced her to cancel her appearance at this year’s Sasquatch Festival. We apologize to our fans and to the promoters of the festival and look forward to returning to the U.S. as soon as possible. This ain't the first time the awesomely hot Sri Lankan-Brit street artist/electro-ragga singer/rapper hasn't been let into the country. We guess them's......

Our daily drug of choice… Seattlest has been busy burning the midnight concert oil the past couple weekends and we’ve got some reporting to do. With all the great new releases already this year, the amazing shows, and intriguing spring concert schedule; 2007 looks to be Epic. Need proof? Our noses have been stuffy and our chests congested (it is the cold & flu season); but in the past week alone we’ve managed to......

Last year's Sasquatch line up was good, but not good enough to get us to spend three days at the Gorge. We still prefer the festival in its one-day, all-in-one-fell-swoop form, but with the lineup that's been announced for this year's two-day fest, we may just have to make the trip. Out of the two days, it was Saturday that really made us coo. Bjork *and* Arcade Fire? Consider us sold. There are still......

ART: Roq La Rue hosts Detroit's celebrated lowbrow underground artist Glenn Barr for the signing of his new hardcover book Haunted Paradise. 6-8pm // Roq La Rue, 2312 2nd Ave // Free RAWK: Tenacious D brings their over-the-top metal spectacular to the Paramount for one night only. 8pm // The Paramount // $37.50 MUSIC: Grizzly Bear at Neumo's. Yellow House is a great album (among the best from last year), but it wasn't until......

Wednesday, February 14 >>> Sparklehorse at Showbox. Sparklehorse is touring in support of their first effort in five years, with more of the same delicate, pretty songs that made them indie darlings. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter open. * sample: Song Streams available on MySpace 8:00 pm // $17 // 21+. >>> Miss Mamie Lavona the Exotic Mulatta at Conor Byrne. The last time we saw Miss Mamie she charmed us in entirely......

Ah, so now we know where the festive audiences are: seeing the Scissor Sisters or Kinky. Because they were certainly not at the sold-out Showbox Wednesday night for the Brooklyn band double feature of Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio. Kicking things off, Grizzly Bear was less grizzly than bearish, and not at all what we expected from the talented foursome. We had heard their Pitchfork-acclaimed Warp release and weren't sure exactly how they'd......

October is here! That means candy apples, inappropriate costumes, and tons of live music. Tuesday 3rd >>> Scissor Sisters at The Showbox. Final night to get your gay on with these beautiful boys and girls. 8pm doors; $30. SOLD OUT! - Looks like Craig's List might still have some though. All ages, bar w/ ID >>> Kristin Hersh with David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) at The Triple Door. Former Throwing Muses frontlady Kristin Hersh......

If you are at all like us, your formative years were spent watching the 'Transformers' and 'Thundercats.' Sure, sure our mom said we should have been 'reading' or 'doing something productive' but we said to that 'Mom, we are learning. We are learning about lasers. Oh, and about talking cats, too.'. You can only imagine how excited we are about the musical laser light show at the Pacific Science Center's Seattle Laser Dome. Grizzly Bear,......