We’ve got mixed feelings about the new ad from Washington’s Lottery that features a brand new song from Grizzly Bear. While we enjoy the tune and fanciful visuals that are thematically almost reminiscent of this recent, strangely psychedelic cat food commercial, we’ve got some questions about the source of the material. We were hoping that like the last great WA Lottery commercial featuring The Cave Singer’s “The Seeds of Night”, more of these state-funded ads would showcase the treasure that is our local state talent. How about it WA Lottery, by keeping it local, “whose world could you change?” more ›

Last month, The Pixies announced a tour celebrating the 20th (!) anniversary of still-awesome album Doolittle. Today, they announced the North American cities on said fall tour, and Seattle made the cut. No date or venue mentioned yet, to which we say: please two nights at the (real) Showbox or the Paramount. We love you, Pixies, and we lurrrrrve that album, but not enough to see you at the SoDo or Key Arena. more ›

In Ear Park is the latest release from Rossen and Nicolaus, and we kindly direct you to the La Blogotheque Take-Away Show above, featuring the duo wandering around NYC's Chinatown while playing a selection of tunes, including the lovely love song "No One Does It Like You." The moody, harmony-heavy album's been getting good reviews, with the New York Times praising its "sparse acoustic moments and lavishly layered pop--gorgeous and suffused with mystery," while Pitchfork gave it an 8.3. Local neo-Appalachians the Cave Singers open. more ›

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. more ›

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." more ›

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." more ›

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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. more ›

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. more ›

Dammit! From the Sasquatch site: more ›

Our daily drug of choice… more ›

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 bands to be announced, but here's how things stand as of right now: more ›

ART: Roq La Rue hosts Detroit's celebrated lowbrow underground artist Glenn Barr for the signing of his new hardcover book Haunted Paradise. more ›

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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. more ›

October is here! That means candy apples, inappropriate costumes, and tons of live music. more ›

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.'. more ›