Last weekend, we were sitting at the bar at Solo (at 200 Roy St., where, coincidentally, Seattlest Happy Hour will be this Monday at 5 p.m.), talking with the owner, Val Kiossovski, who also happens to play guitar for Kultur Shock. We were drunkenly requesting a change in the music, and he obliged by putting on a record we've been listening to quite a lot lately: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's self-titled debut. more ›