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WAMU'S KRAUSS PLANT: Tonight's the night: some old dude named Robert Plant is appearing with the angelically voiced Alison Krauss. They're touring for the album Raising Sand, which Rolling Stone praised for its "relaxed, smoky harmonies and reverbed midtempo rockabilly." All ages. Or you could go see Great Big Sea with all these people.

This week, we're tempted by David "Fathead" Newman's Tuesday and Wednesday gigs -- a tenor saxman who used to play with the Ray Charles Band, Newman is said to belong in the company of Coltrane and Getz. But Saturday night we were at the Triple Door for the Rocco DeLuca/Sierra Swan bill.

Just like Saturday's Wilderness show, last night at Neumo's was a major sausage fest, this time for the 70's folk-tinged psychedelic rock of Swedish boys Dungen. Not much has changed since we saw the band last fall: they still insist on singing in their native tongue; lead singer Gustav Ejstes continues to remind us of Robert Plant (though his hair's a little shorter now); they again played a relatively brief set (only ten songs), primarily from 2004's highly-acclaimed Ta Det Lungt; the band is still prone to ending their songs with the extended hippie jam; and Ejstes remains in command of an arsenal of instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, keyboard, organ, flute, and his near-constantly used tambourine.

For the second time in a week, Seattlest found ourselves enjoying some live music, even though we didn't have a clue as to what the songs meant. Last Wednesday it was Sigur Ros, and yesterday it was Dungen (pronounced "doon-yun"), a Swedish band that plays what everybody's terming "folkrockpsych" due to its decidedly '70s throwback feel. Hipsters and hippies alike have been drooling over this album for a while now, which the diverse crowd at Neumo's reflected completely. The mostly male audience was full of white belts *and* dreadlocks, as well as a smattering of old dudes and music nerds who just wanted to hear some hardcore jamming. They would not go home disappointed.