As music editor for Seattlest over the last couple years, I've learned a lot. Mostly about local music but also about sharing what you love with others, the power of friendship and community and most importantly about myself. This is my goodbye (and hello) to all of you, our loyal readers. You've done more for me than I can say and hope to hear from you and speak to you in the future about the universal language of music. more ›

Bryan John Appleby is unadulterated talent, through and through. His piercing and emotionally charged voice doesn't need strength to carry it to the back of the room. He is, simply put, beautiful. His lyrics bring tears to your eyes no matter how many times you hear them. Morgen has been following his career for a couple years and couldn't think of leaving him off her countdown list. more ›

Don't worry, we're not shutting down. But there will be some changes around these parts--namely, a new captain. Or sheriff. Choose your own metaphor. more ›

Why do we suddenly have all kinds of non-Seattle content? Because Gothamist says so. more ›

As Sunday arrived, we were torn between exhaustion and not wanting to leave Portland and the musical magic we had been involved in for the past five days. Exhaustion was winning, but only by a hair. more ›

Day four of MFNW (Saturday) rolled around, and we were having trouble getting our butts out of bed. Then we realized what the day had in store and we perked up and headed over to the Doug Fir. more ›

Recapping the week that was in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Austin, Shanghai, Washington DC, New York City and Seattle. more ›

Earlier this month we announced that Seattlest Music has finally gotten the chance to put together a lineup for its very first Presents show. Not only will it be on a Friday but it's also taking place at Columbia City Theater, one of our favorite venues in the Seattle area. It would probably be an understatement to say we're excited. Ecstatic might be a bit more accurate. Ok, by now you're probably saying "Who the hell is playing already?!" We hear ya, so ask and ye shall receive. This is the first in our three part series to introduce you to our lineup starting with the opener, The Elderly. Anything but old, this group of young musicians has talent to spare and we're so excited for you to get to know them. We headed over to Bud's (William Ransom, the lead singer) house to talked to the band and grab a couple photos. It ended up being a chat with what felt to be old friends and we look forward to what they have in store for all of us in the future. more ›

DCist was on the scene as Mayor Vince Gray, six D.C. Councilmembers and 34 others were arrested by Capitol Police as part of a demonstration in support of D.C. voting rights and autonomy. One of the issues the Mayor and company were protesting -- the controversial inclusion of a rider prohibiting D.C. from spending local funds to pay for abortions for low-income women -- also spurred heated debate among readers as it went into effect. more ›

Exciting news, music lovers. Here's why you'll want to circle June 10 on your calendar. more ›

DCist had a fine time poking fun at its neighbors to the north and south this week, as a non-descript group of large white letters spelling out "LOVE"; in Dupont Circle ended up being an advertisement for Virginia tourism, Fairfax County's Board of Supervisors came up with some truly unoriginal names for several new Metro stations, and Maryland's Preakness Stakes unveiled "Kegasus" -- a marketing abomination that might just signal the end of civilization as we know it. more ›

Really it boils down to one thing: I'm crazy about food. Scouring the blogs and Twitter-waves for new information on must try dishes, restaurants in the works and expanding my culinary palate. more ›

As you may have just read, our fearless leader Allecia Vermillion is leaving the Seattlest for an incredible new gig. We are all sworn to secrecy as to what that is but we can say this, it may or may not be the CIA. Allecia has filled our inboxes for quite some time here, has helped the site move in some incredible new directions and has been an editor writers dream of having. In celebration and in mourning of her new venture in life, the Seattlest gang has all chimed in to what her tenure has meant to us. She didn't know we were doing this, so Allecia, we hope you like it! It's a love-fest, and a well deserved one at that. more ›

Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro play at the Crocodile on Saturday night in support of their 5th album, “Only Revolutions”. We can’t wait for them to bring their Foo Fighter-influenced sounds to a venue entirely too small for Foo, but could channel Nirvana-era Dave Grohl in an instant. Biffy is popular in their native UK but it’s been difficult cracking into the American market; their last tour in the States was four years ago. During the first US tour they had the pleasure of opening for Bon Jovi while this time around there are headlining, albeit in smaller venues, but headlining none the less. After scouring YouTube for live performances, we couldn’t help but be eager to see them at the Crocodile this Saturday as they engage the crowd as any band should. more ›

Once again the zombies attacked Fremont, bringing gore and horror to the streets! more ›

A look into the two day event with over 200 local wineries and restaurants. Plenty of wine, lots of food, and plenty more wine! more ›

Now you can get your Seattlest fix when you're on the gogogo! We're happy to announce the launch of Istaverse, the new iPhone app from the Gothamist Network. The app is an aggregate of all the city blogs and their most recent posts. You can select Seattle (and it remembers on relaunch) and get the latest content, in addition to browsing what's new in all the ist cities across this big bad country. more ›

We only know one person who owns a Kindle, so we often forget to mention you can subscribe to Seattlest at the Kindle Store for just $1.99. more ›

In our continuing quest to get other people to do our work for us, we're accepting reader submissions for Seattlest posts. Enter, and if we select your blog post, you'll win a pair of tickets to the Tuesday (April 14) show at the new Crocodile, starring Dr. Dog, The Cave Singers, and Golden Boots. The rules are these: Enter by posting a link to your blog post in the comments section of this post. You have until 5 p.m. Monday. Then we'll pick our favorite, and reprint your post on Seattlest next week. We're leaving the topic open--just make sure it relates to Seattle in some way. PS: Make sure you didn't give us your spam email in your profile, or we won't be able to tell you you won. more ›

Dear readers, I'm breaking from the official Seattlest "we" to let you know that this is my last day with your favorite local news, events and opinion blog. I've been writing a lot about Northwest hiphop for Sound Magazine, a publication you should definitely be reading if you're interested in the Seattle/Portland/Vancouver music scene and are looking for quality long-form feature stories; I'll be working more closely with the editorial staff at Sound now, which requires me to bid adieu to the local news editorship at Seattlest. I'm also a licensed massage practitioner, and have begun to build my own Capitol Hill practice. (Joy!) more ›

Thanks, everyone who came out to the Seattlest Happy Hour at Zig Zag last night--and thanks to Ben and Autumn for pouring drinks down our thirsty gullets. We had a chance to order an Aviation, which we wanted ever since we read about creme de violette in The Atlantic. It may be impossible to convey in words how cool you feel drinking a slightly purple drink called Aviation. more ›

RSS subscription drive! Literally thousands of people follow the news on Seattlest via our Seattlest RSS feed. So come on, everyone else is doing it. Subscribe today! If RSS is too many words, you can catch headlines on our Twitter feed. We also have a mobile device site if you want to bookmark that for when you're out and about. Lastly, you can also join our Facebook group, which we use mainly to invite people to Seattlest Happy Hours. Are we missing anything? Oh, as always, if you're interested in writing for Seattlest, let us know. more ›

Hi, Seattlest readers waiting bemusedly for your Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-up. We're mixing it up and moving NN&LBR-u to the afternoon so we can deliver fresher links, rather than the day-old variety. So look for that later on today. In the meantime, you've got a few minutes, why not enjoy a doughnut? Also, this week, we've got Inauguration news coming from our sister site DCist (and the crazy kids at Chicagoist who road-tripped out)--and we've sent Seattlest Audrey off to Sundance to sneak a peek at a bunch of films that will no doubt show up later this spring at SIFF.God it's exciting. Now excuse us while we show our doughnut--a glazed old-fashioned, if you must know--who's boss. more ›

Dear readers: There comes a time in every blog's life when no matter how good things have been going--and they have been good--when you see an upgrade and you get to thinking... Well, it's an old, old story. The long and short of it is, we're going to be taking a little time off from you this weekend. We hope--we swear this is true--that it's just for a few hours, just until we get our database straight. But you know how it goes. Sometimes...things come up. Maybe you'll be there when we come out the other side. We hope you will be. We have pictures of slushy streets to share. Oh, they're really slushy. Just how you like. more ›

Speaking of membership drives, every so often we head over to the shadowy area of Seattlest HQ where the beancounters with green eyeshades are number-crunching. They tell us our Seattlest RSS subscribers are up four percent this month, but we think we can beat that number. Subscribe today! It's free, after all. And while we're at it: kids, you can follow us on Twitter or on your mobile device. We also proudly introduce a pilot program where Seattlest David comes by your home and reads his "Seahawks vs. Cooking Dish" exploits aloud, any time of the day or night. But that is not free. Contact us for details. more ›

So 2,400 of you are reading this via your RSS feed, and congratulations! You can skip the rest of this post. What a time-saver that RSS is. For those of you who haven't tried it out, all you need to experience the digest-y gloriousness of RSS is a feed reader. There's all kinds. We use Google Reader, which also integrates with our Google home page--Yahoo! has similar functionality. And then there's Newsgator and Bloglines, in addition to add-ons to Firefox. more ›

Party-planning troika Seattlest and Seattle Metblogs, and CHS want to hold a special BlogsGiving Evening (TM) around mid-November, and we're soliciting suggestions for a venue that can hold about 75-100 thirsty and slightly hungry people and their iPhones, laptops, and digital cameras. If you or a venue you know would like to be part of this evening to benefit inter-blog amity and a local food bank, please drop us a line: editor at seattlest.com. Our operators are standing by! more ›

We know it looks like them, but we assure you this is not The Fleet Foxes. Share photos of your favorite bearded Seattle musicians in the Seattlest Flickr Pool more ›

Alexa, the internetz rating service, is out with a ranking of Seattle's top 50 media websites. Not surprisingly, da Timez-&-Pee-Eye combo site, nwsource.com, is numero uno. Our good friends at Slog are in fourth place. Seattlest.com is a more-than-respectable tenth. WestSeattleBlog is 15th. Says Alex Mayer, publisher of dead-tree Belltown Messenger (#42) and live-electron Downtown Dispatch (#36), "The future of media is on the web." more ›

It's that time of year again: time to vote for the "Best of Western Washington." We must admit to being slightly miffed. In a poll that asks locals about their favorite fish market and what they consider to be the best pet couture, there isn't a single question about your favorite blog or blogger. So, King5 and Evening Magazine, we want to know--do you have something against local bloggers? Or are you just saving space and sending Seattlest the trophy? Cause that, we'd be cool with. more ›