We've been hitting shows on the Seattle music scene for about four years now, and if there's one thing we can say with certainty, it's that Seattle doesn't need more musicians, it needs better ones. Such may be the consolation of learning that next week, the Seattle chapter of Paul Green's School of Rock opens. If Green's now famous "school" can help create a new generation of musicians whose influences go deeper than Green Day,......

Redmond native and actual Guitar Hero Carrie Brownstein did some work on the advertising of the game Rock Band. You might have seen these commercials; four rocker-lookin types sit around and cut on each other in the jaded and weary fashion of musicians on the road. That's not her work, thank god. She was on a different team pushing a different concept. Anyway, she's got an article up at Slate today about her experiences with......

While you may not be accustomed to getting music news from Seattlest that's not along the "Die, Fledermaus, Die" lines lately we do actually listen to the rock music. You, know, sometimes, when we're feeling guitar-y. We have a copy of The Lashes new CD at Seattlest HQ but we've been so busy trying to break the copy protection on it so we can distribute it to the world via our P2P of choice......