Looks like tonight's long-awaited Radiohead show at White River Amphitheater in Auburn is going to be a wet one. Reports from Auburn have included hail and a continuous downpour. While Radiohead is one of our favorite rainy-day bands, we were very much hoping not to experience that weather live tonight. But whatever. It is Thom Yorke and Radiohead, and whatever that other local blog says, Radiohead is possibly the greatest band performing today; and......

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. Dates and venues have been confirmed for the second leg of Radiohead's upcoming North American tour. They are: August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago,......

Last night at Benaroya Hall, author Richard Powers read from a new short story called "Modulation." It was classic Powers; a dense, far-reaching, and meticulously vivid tale of a computer virus that infects music player devices via filesharing sites. He weaves the story around four different individuals: a Japanese hacker recently released from prison and now employed by the RIAA to huntdown filesharers, a Brazilian journalist researching soldiers in Iraq who blast ear-crunching music from......

After months of wild speculation, the official 2008 Sasquatch lineup has finally been announced: R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / The Presidents / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers......

Wild speculation surrounding the possibility of Radiohead playing somewhere in Washington sometime in the next year has got us pissing ourselves with excitement. The P-I A P-I reader blog called Ear Candy** thinks they might headline the Sasquatch Festival at the end of May with REM and The Cure but our sources are suggesting the band will embark on a West Coast run after their European summer tour ends. As of right now, the......

That's NYC experimental group Radiohole not Radiohead. We don't bait and switch here at Seattlest. Their show Fluke is an "enigmatic riff" on Moby Dick, says the NY Times, adding: "It has always been easier to like a show by Radiohole than to understand it." On the Boards describes Fluke like so:Inspired by Melville’s leviathan epic, Fluke tosses unlikely shipmates from Captain Ahab to Tokyo Rose around on a claustrophobic, spring-loaded, jury-rigged set that......

Could we be any vaguer? No, but that doesn't mean there's still not any reason to get excited. With In Rainbows making its formal debut atop the Billboard charts, Radiohead is set to cover North America in two tour legs, one prior to and one following their recently announced European summer tour (June 6 in Dublin through July 8 in Berlin). There's no exact dates or venues just yet, but the band has confirmed......

Seattle-related only in the sense that we are but a minor gathering within the greater worldwide collection of souls who understand why Radiohead is the greatest band ever. Found this gem on the webs today. Thought it best to share, for those of us who've yet to come across it. It's a video made "for New Year's Eve, 2007" and features Radiohead performing every song from In Rainbows. Speaking of In Rainbows, color us curious.........

Joshua Roman, for those of you more concerned with what's going on at Neumo's than what's happening in Benaroya Hall, is the star cellist in Seattle Symphony. He's also 23, has hair like a young Bob Dylan, and seriously kicks ass. This Thursday, he'll be joined at Town Hall by three other instrumentalists of his choosing for what's sure to be the best thing happening in classical music this week, if not the best......

Besides being in the running for Owner of the World's Most Glamorous Name, Katjana Vadeboncoeur plays the maternal hen Aunt Julia in blahblahblahBANG at On the Boards. To make a point of it, she sips then spits up her tea into a cup, complete with birdlike neck spasms, and hands it to her beloved, coddled nephew Yorgen Tesman -- who drinks it, onstage, to an audience of wrinkled noses. If you're an Ibsen fan (blahblahblahBANG......

We never really got into Pink Floyd, but not for lack of trying. In high school we actively endeavored to enjoy the band by any means necessary. We listened to Wish You Were Here under the influence of homemade acid and moonshine, we viewed The Wall whilst freebasing peyote, we played Dark Side of the Moon simultaneous with Sister Act, and still--nothing. We gave up and found Radiohead instead. So we aren't too excited......

Silver-throated chanteuse Marissa Nadler is prone to sing a cover or two, whether it's Radiohead's "No Surprises" or something from the oeuvre of Leonard Cohen, like "Famous Blue Raincoats" (on her latest album Songs III: Bird on the Water) or "Chelsea Hotel #2" (see above). Marissa Nadler plays the Sunset Saturday night (she'll also be back in Seattle later in September, opening for Peter Bjorn and John and The Clientele at the Showbox). Seattlest......

After spending all day yesterday leading up to the Menomena show at the Croc singing the Muppets' menah-menah doo doo da doo doo song in our heads, we were stoked to have a band that sounds exactly like Radiohead buzzing in our ears. Or, as it were, buzzing all over our bodies. (We were standing dangerously close to the speakers.) The evening started with Siberian (the band that sounds like Radiohead and Coldplay combined).......

You should go see Balagan Theatre’s wild west version of Titus Andronicus at CHAC, but if you want a taste of what you’re getting into before you go you should check out episode 501 of Southpark. In that episode Cartman avenges a humiliation by arranging the deaths of his tormentor’s parents. Then he chops them up and tricks the kid into eating their corpses in a bowl of chili. Weak sauce? Cartman’s also arranged to......

Monday night Seattlest headed to Chop Suey for the Easy Star All-Stars performance of Radiodread, a dub-reggae version of Radiohead's OK Computer. We went in knowing of the group's previous reworking of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, filled with a morbid curiosity of whether this would be a regrettable showgoing decision (but also knowing that horrible shows are easiest to write about). We're happy to report that while the show is most definitely......

Seattle's Bluegrass scene is weirdly becoming cool lately. It seems like everyone in Ballard either plays mandolin or banjo, or has a crush on someone who does. Here on Capitol Hill, indie rock still rules; but for two hours Thursday night, bluegrass music was hoppin at our favorite little hipster Christian hangout – On The House. Okay, so Billie Burke Estate isn't bluegrass music, but he sure had on a bluegrass shirt. We loved BBE......

Poor Alex Ross. No matter that he's a high-minded music critic, no matter that during his esteemed career he's been a columnist for the New York Times and (currently) the New Yorker, no matter that he's an anti-elitist classical music lover...he's still the second-most famous fella to go by those two four-letter names. Yep, the dude who turns up first in Google and Wikipedia is the other Alex Ross, the comic book guy. It's a......

Back in 2002, the Crocodile had a perfect storm of a show, and not-yet-Seattlest was lucky enough to be in attendance for a bill whose lineup still gets followed to this day. The earnest indie rock of Mellowdrone, followed by the Brit-rock-with-tender-voices of both South and Elbow prompted Seattlest to spend more on merch at that show than has been spent since. As album release cycles go, they all still tend to hit Seattle on......

Thinking of the Red Bull Music Academy still puts a smile on Seattlest's face. While almost overwhelming with the amount of talent that came through, the fact that all of that great music came through Seattle is still mindblowing. The event left an impact on the scene too, with some people deciding to move to the area, and others ensuring that their tour plans bring them back through the Emerald City. Osunlade's appearance at tonight's......

Romeo and Juliet is one of those tales everybody knows, whether or not they've read it, seen it performed live, or watched one of the many film adaptations. So Seattlest kinda knew what to expect when we descended deep into the bowels of Center House for the play's opening night performance by the Seattle Shakespeare Company. We got the standard star-crossed lovers stuff, but director John Langs included a few modern updates, some of which......

If you aren't one of the 4 million people going to see Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge, we offer you our congratulations as well as a recommendation to see the newly reunited Dinosaur Jr. at the Showbox. Yes, we know we blogged about it before, but it's Dinosaur Jr. If you are feeling more digitally inclined, you might be interested in checking out the new Radiohead blog. It's full of cryptic posts and nighttime......

We told you last week about the local kids who'd made it to the nationals in both the Geography Bee and the Spelling Bee. First, the Geography Bee, which Seattlest watched and had the curious experience of basically not having a clue on any of the questions. Sammamish's own Max Sugarman fared well--he made the final ten, and won our hearts by announcing to Alex Trebek that he was wearing otter socks and also an......

You may be pleased to know that the entire Smashing Pumpkins catalog is available digitally for the first time. The incredible mediocrity of Corgan's Zwan and any Pumpkin's album after 'Pisces Iscariot' did an excellent job of diminishing the legacy of the band, that said we'll take 'Siamese Dream' or 'Gish' on a pure enjoyment level over Nirvana's 'Nevermind' any day of the week. (Yes, we know that 'Nevermind' is a more 'important' album). This......