If you were looking forward to seeing the White Stripes later this month at the Paramount, you can forget it. more ›

It's Sunday night at the Crocodile Café, and the place is humming—but are people here for opener The Trucks, The Pink Mountaintops who pulled a last minute no-show, or Deadboy & The Elephantmen? The bobbing heads and sing-alongs accompanying "Introduction," The Trucks' first song, are evidence that the Bellingham girl-tet has drawn a good chunk of this Seattle crowd. And until tonight—CD release party!—they'd only issued a handful of streaming songs and a three-track demo disc. more ›