Day eleven in the photo countdown heads south once again to MusicFest Northwest. It held so many great moments for Morgen that she can't help but choose more than a few shots from this event. Today is a lesser known Portland-based group dubbed The Quiet Life, but they made quite an impression on our photographer. more ›

Josh Groban delighted fans at the Key Arena on Saturday with his theatrical show and operatic voice. We captured a few moments from the evening and if you are hungry for more head over to the flickr set as well. more ›

Despite the fact we had a 7 a.m, wake up time on Thursday, something powerful drove us to head north on Wednesday night for a rock show. That reason was Beirut. more ›

One of you lucky fans will win tickets to see this merry band of artists by playing along with Seattlest. Your entry has to be in by this Sunday morning at 11am. more ›

Seattlest Music shares another entry from the Doe Bay Diaries. more ›

If you haven't spent any time at Columbia City Theater lately then you have been missing some of the best shows of the year. Tonight is no exception with the long-awaited CD release from Noah Gundersen. more ›

Many, many Seattlest writers have spent considerable amounts of time in Bellingham. Morgen and Zach are not two of them--and last night, they had their first engagement with the Wild Buffalo. more ›

It was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon at the Chateau Ste Michelle. Everyone was smiling (due to the wine-driven buzz attendees were most likely donning) and delicious, if over-priced, food was served in abundance. We grabbed a fish and chips priced at a whopping $13, but you couldn't be unhappy or bitter for more than a minute with such beautiful surroundings not to mention the evenings events to come. more ›

The Seattle music scene is rife with musicians intermingling amongst bands as well as breaking off to perform solo as well. Shenandoah Davis is one of these incredibly talented artists taking part in several bands' shows, as a permanent fixture in Grand Hallway and a budding solo career. Everything she's involved in basically turns to aural gold. Being one of the very few talented accordion players in the city doesn't hurt her popularity either especially with the prominence of orchestral pop these days. more ›

Are you tired yet? We are, but ready for more music. Let's get this thing going! Saturday was fantastic: the weather, the music, the free Vitamin Water... We caught a ton of shows and took a little me time too. Did the fest meet your expectations so far? We're holding judgement to the end, but it's been crazy so far. more ›

Friday started off with a bang. We caught shows from Fresh Espresso, Fucked Up, Head and the Heart, Thurston Moore, Craft Spells, Cults and the Fresh and Onlys. We'll work on posting the other half of our shots tonight. Stay tuned! more ›

The Capitol Hill Block Party can be kind of intimidating. But no worries--Seattlest's dynamic music duo, Lily and Morgen, are ready to walk you through it. more ›

Just like almost every other weekend has been since we can all remember, it's a little dreary and you aren't sure you feel like going out and doing anything. Then you look around for what shows are going on. If you see a few you're interested in and can't really decide, let us do that for you. Tonight is the veteran musician David Bazan with his semi-new and now fully broken in band. We caught their first show together at Bumbershoot last year and it didn't seem to be their first gig together, but there you have it. Clean and beautiful from the start. The next performance was Head and the Heart (HATH) opening for them at the Showbox last year. It was an incredibly fun show with HATH right in their element with the legendary Seattle rock singer as the headliner. The entire evening meshed into this fantastic fun folk and rock groove. more ›

Many people have used the word fiery to describe Neko Case’s bright red hair but it could easily be a description of her more ›

With four bands that promised to impress, how could you go wrong? more ›

Pete Yorn did not disappoint us on Friday night. It was pretty obvious about eighty percent of the concert-goers were there to take a step back in time and hear MusicForTheMorningAfter in its entirety. That's what we were excited about and sang every note as loud as we could. Embarrassing? Maybe. Do we care? No. What ended up surprising us was Ben Kweller's incredible set starting off the evening. He put on quite a show and he had some die-hard fans up front brightening his already charming smile more than once. He has a great way of mixing acoustic easy tunes with hard-edged electric solos. Both styles performed by him with seemingly flawless transitions; we were in awe. He talked about heading to the studio for a new album and exciting times ahead after a long hiatus. You can check out more shots here from a truly stellar show. more ›

Spring and summer time is that magical few months when all our local bands go out on tour (and bands from other places grace us with their presence as well). Whether it be festivals, huge venues or tiny little crapholes, they are out there toiling away to get their music out to the masses. Admittedly, we miss them. We're used to having them around to play shows once or twice a month and now they've been callously ripped from our hands and thrust out into the world. Well, Seattlest Music is attempting to bring a little bit of them back to Seattle as they tour by being text message pals. They'll be sending photos and quotes all along the way for us to share. This is gonna be fun! more ›

We're looking forward to starting our weekend off on the right track with the help of the best band that's come out of Australia since Nick Cave: dreamy psych rockers Tame Impala. more ›

Pre-sale tickets for Arcade Fire’s return to Seattle on September 29th at the Key Arena, with the likes of Arizonian folksters Calexico, were made available for purchase today at 10 a.m., via any Ticketmaster outlet. more ›

We're reluctant to spend this absolutely glorious sunny Monday morning writing about this weekend's horrific murders down in Graham, Washington. What Seattlest would rather do is watch web cams of Northwest wildlife, and we bet that's what you'd rather think about, too. The Hancock Wildlife Foundation has two live streaming web cams of bald eagle nests in British Columbia, and a handful of other recorded segments from years past of such wonders as the Chehalis salmon run. When will Dreamworks make a movie about talking, singing bald eagles and Chinook salmon? We'd buy that DVD/BluRay combo pack. Mornings and webcams like these remind us that we have the privilege of making our home in one of the world's most bountiful, beautiful areas. Sunshine, please stay! more ›

• Capitol Hill Seattle has composed a neighborhood wish list for the holidays, including such perfectly legitimate requests as a new pair of gloves and magic beans to turn the economy around for local businesses. Good luck...
• KEXP has yet ten more reasons (read: free mp3s to stream!) for you to buy their Live At KEXP: Vol. 4. The Hold Steady, even!
• Why does it always have to be a snowman? Why not a snow-fellow, or a snow-horse-mermaid? PhinneyWood's residents get way creative.

DJ Rare Groove spins for the crowd before Atmosphere's set. more ›

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parody of a musical in the first place, with enough cheesy lines, bawdy humor and exposed flesh to sate more or less any appetite. more ›

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