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"Drink for the Kids" is the annual benefit for the all-ages Vera Project, the music and arts center for kids who can't drink, and we for one can't wait for an end to this scourge too soon. Imagine not being able to drink! How thirsty would you be?! We're not up on all the science, but we're happy to support the race for the cure, and that means we're off to Neumos tonight to hear fleet, foxy Robin Pecknold, Throw Me The Statue, and Grand Hallway. Tickets are $15 in advance, doors at 8 p.m.

IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN: Today's the second day of A Drink for the Kids, the 7th annual Vera Project travelling fundraiser running through Saturday's show at Neumo's with Robin Pecknold and Throw Me the Statue. Show your support for the all-ages club by ordering a Stone IPA or the designated A Drink for the Kids cocktail at one of several bars around town. Tonight the venue is Ballard's Hazlewood, a bar we love so much that we wish we could just scoop it on up and move it to the Hill. 6-10 p.m. // Hazlewood // 2311 NW Market St // as much as you drink

According to last weekend's Saturday Night Live, this Saturday's episode will be hosted by crazy Republican (in that it's crazy she's a Republican) Rosario Dawson, along with the first SNL appearance by musical guest Fleet Foxes. Claims NME, "The Seattle indie rockers will be just the sixth band from an independent label to snag the coveted spot on the legendary US television show in its more than 30-year history." No word as to whether Robin Pecknold will pull a Taylor Swift and bring his bedazzled guitar.

They've already garnered Mojo's #1 spot in the British mag's 2008 Top 50, as well as #2 in Uncut and Q and #6 in Paste (thanks to Stereogum for compiling this shit). Now the Fleet Foxes are getting some local year-end love too. In this month's Sound Magazine, Robin Pecknold and Co. didn't get Artist of the Year (that went to Jake One, thankyouverymuch), but the Fleet Foxes did win Year of the Year [RealRead Viewer], um, we guess for having an awesome year.

In this week's Rolling Stone, the annual "Hot Issue" (and yes, the one with Britney on the cover), working at the Cha's Cha's burrito kitchen gets blurbed as a "Hot Rocker Job." Citing the "kitchen staff of insanely talented musicians moonlighting as line cooks," there are a couple quotes from a certain former employee/maybe bland Fleet Foxes frontman, along with a list of other groups associated with Bimbo's: Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, the Melvins, Hole, Minus the Bear, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and Murder City Devils. So now you know which bands gave you food poisoning.

In the middle of a nostalgic discussion of Freddie Mercury and the sadly absent Great Frontmen of today's rock and roll, Spin.com's Abigail Everdell tosses a mild-to-moderate barb in the Fleet Foxes' direction: "Many talented singers today don't have the presence or style to distinguish themselves as lasting personalities. I'd group most honey-throated folk singers in here (think Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold singing for thousands while slouching in a chair)..." Zing! See what she did there? The group's eponymous debut full-length has received almost unanimous accolades in the national press, but this Seattlest has remained unconvinced that the Foxes should be granted top-tier, all-time awesome/exciting status--and it looks like Everdell agrees.

Ellen Carpenter over at SPIN.com makes a great point: plaid is so, so in these days. Look at that Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes (pictured), Tom Hobden from Noah And The Whale, or J. Tillman! Something about the gentle, guitar-stroking, whiskered man just screams "I'm humble and gruff, yet still empathetic. And I probably smell like cedar, if you get close enough." Riffs Carpenter after a Fleet Foxes show,

I could have overlooked their militantly woodsy ensembles--they are from the Pacific Northwest, after all--if half of the audience hadn’t been rocking the same look. It seemed like a joke, like one of those Improv Everywhere missions. A flash mob: Lumbercon!

The Seattle Weekly just brought this Fleet Foxes tidbit to our attention--we didn't realize this, but the Wall Street Journal has a popular music critic, one Mr. Jim Fusilli. In an effort to cross generational gaps, he wrote a story about the Brian-Wilson-flavored harmonies in vogue with the kids today (Starling Electric, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver), and even rang up the Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold for an interview. Pecknold is always interview gold. The money quote follows: "We weren't coming at it from a jazz point of view," said Mr. Pecknold, who is 22 years old. "We wanted something simple, like old folk music." Strict, structured harmonies "can sound too lush, too '70s, too 'Hall & Oatesy,'" he added. "It's better when you experiment and find different notes to sing."

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Ever since we first heard Fleet Foxes, over a year ago, we've been waiting patiently for them to come out with an official recording. Patiently! But after their concert last Friday, our granite-like indifference to the passage of time faded briefly and we wrote "Seattle's Fleet Foxes, loved by Spin, poky album putter-outers..." -- without thinking about it, carelessly!

A friend of ours at Chop Suey Saturday night told us the last time The Clientele [myspace] played Chop Suey all of 16 people showed up. Clearly the band is doing something right, because the place was bustling this time around. (Amazon's only got two copies of their last album left in stock at the moment.)