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John Richards from KEXP was there MCing and of course Secret Machines were what we came to Westlake Center at noon on a Monday to see, but neither of those were the highest-priced talent that Microsoft would throw up on stage for their first Zune launch event yesterday. None other than the wizard king of Redmond Bill Gates himself stood before us to extol the wonders of the Microsoft mp3 player and pantomime a demonstration of its song beaming technology. Who knows, maybe he really sent a song from his Zune magically through the air to John's Zune - Regardless, it would be more visually exciting to stand there and watch Bill's brain grow.

The Secret Machines show we mentioned on Wednesday will go down at Westlake Center on Monday at 11:50am, just in time for you to rock over there for a while during lunch. It's a Seattle Zune Launch Party and we're hoping there will be a few of Microsoft's iPod killers on hand for us to poke and prod at with our greedy little gadget-loving fingers, but remember: music first, tech toys second. We'll see you there.

Someone from the Zune marketing borg emailed last week and asked if Seattlest wanted to be assimilated announce a show. And, hell yeah, of course we do, so much so that we even have some amateur Zune ad copy prepared: "Once you go brown..." Well, that's all we've got so far. We're working on it. So the band for this free and public show is Secret Machines from the Lone Star State, which happens to be a band we dig. You might remember them from their recent happening at the Showbox where they eschewed the whole stage thing that so many bands accept with lemming-like resignation and played in the round. Uh, Shakespeare style...

Tuesday 17th

Tonight, if you aren't going to see DJ-AM (you fool!), your best bet is Beck and Le Tigre at the Paramount. We know that Beck is a Scientologist, but at least he didn't yell at Matt Laurer (or if he did, it was in private).