We're as guilty as anyone else when it comes to not knowing that Nada Surf has been living a second life of sorts -- a new life, all their own, long after "Popular," the satirical high-school anthem that ruled MTV circa 1996. Nada Surf has spent the past decade recording, touring and reestablishing themselves with the North American Audience. It's a cool story, we think and not one you often hear. Band gets major label......

Tonight would be the night to dominate the jukebox at the Wildrose, because all the ladies (except for us) will be at the Paramount drinking a nice tall glass of alt.country goodness. Brandi Carlile's back in town with her hot twin-powered band and we understand she tends to pull traffic away from the corner of 11th and Pike (at least until 11 PM). We don't really get it, but whatever. We so don't get it,......

The Hugo House Literary Series kicks off Friday night with "Lost in Translation," and the program features Seattlest-favorite and monologist Mike Daisey, novelist Randall Keenan and historian Lesley Hazleton. We don't know why Seattle ever lets Daisey leave, once we've got him here. He's ours! We should just band him or do that thing like with dogs where they are electronically forbidden to leave the yard. Daisey, et al, have each produced three new pieces......

We hear Tegan & Sara's shows tonight and tomorrow night at the Triple Door are sold out. (Don't they do some kind of SRO thing there, too? Maybe check CL.) If you don't get in, the Canadian duo are playing at the Showbox on December 3. We're new to the Tegan & Sara experience ourselves -- we just thought they looked alike and were completely unaware they're youthful lesbian twin sisters from Canada. (Not that......

As a teenager, Seattlest loved posters. We plastered Miami Vice stills rock gods, Tiger Beat pages swimsuit models and sports stars on our walls with tacks, tape and that white boogery stuff. Some boys grow up and out of the phase. Others become obsessed with poster art, set up savings accounts for Flatstock, and bitch about those who “flip,”—resell high-demand gig posters—for a steep profit. (We fall somewhere in between.) Artillery Design, a new......

The oldest is only twenty, the youngest seventeen. One of them graduated high school a year early by doubling his class load. One of them dropped out. Be Your own PET are four young adults from Nashville, Tennessee with plenty of punk coursing through their young veins. It's appropriate they should open for UK brats, Arctic Monkeys tomorrow night at the Showbox. 8pm // SOLD OUT (some tix on Craig's List) We're definitely excited for......

Seattlest has an undeniable soft spot for foxy ladies on piano. There's just something genuine and fun and intriguing about the whole scene. Which is why we'll be skipping merrily to The Moore tomorrow night for Regina Spektor. 8pm // The Moore // Tix still available. $20 - $26. SOLD OUT. There's always Craig's List. Show opener Only Son should be fun too. Frontman Jack Dishel played lead guitar for The Moldy Peaches as well......

THEATER: Hey, don't tell anyone, because this could really upset the natural order of things in town, but SPF:1 - No Protection is dangerously close to a fringe theater festival. Performing tonight are Keith Hitchcock, Mary Purdy, Jonah Von Spreecken all of Seattle. 7:30pm // Theater Off Jackson // $15 MOVIE: Fanboys have already crowned this CGI behemoth the greatest thing ever to play on a hundred billion screens this week. Is it too cliche......

MUSIC: Sigh, the Shins. Curses, the Paramount. If tonight doesn't work, you get another shot on Tuesday. 8pm // The Paramount Theater// $25 SOLD OUT, scalping starting at $35 on Craigslist MUSIC: The Octopus Project are poppy, noisy, and often a bit confusing, but they're always fun - their last release has a three eyed, three armed nun on the cover, which says plenty. 9:00 pm // Chop Suey// $8 adv., 21+ GRAPHIC READING: True......

COMEDY: Sarah Silverman is the reason we tell people to see "The Aristocrats" and now the woman has a TV show and a movie of her own, where she gets to say "I like to tell people that when God gives you AIDS (and God does give you AIDS, by the way), make...lemonaids." Two shows: 6pm/9pm // The Showbox // SOLD OUT, but... MUSIC: This is turning out to be the best Sunday ever. One......

BOOKS: Like mysteries? The 17th Annual Western Mystery Fan convention continues through the 4th. For a group focused on clues and figuring things out, they spell things out incredibly well on their website. Where's the fun in that? 9am-5pm // Renaissance Seattle Hotel, 515 Madison St // $60 (day pass) YO-YO: It's the annual Pacific Northwest Yo-Yo Championship. It sounds a little odd, and it is, but it's definitely a sight to behold, with people......

Tuesday, January 30 >>> Jacob London at Baltic Room. Jacob London is known most widely for their house music releases (they've put out material on the legendary Classic Music Company label), but tonight they'll be exploring their more techno-oriented output with a live set. We don't know if that makes it more or less likely that they'll bring their microphone monkey, but expect quality music with a lot of quirky turns. 10:00 pm //......

MUSIC: Kled, with a lineup that boasts some of our favorite band names in town, including A Gun that Shoots Knives and We Wrote the Book on Connectors. 9pm // the High Dive // $5 NERDS: Flashback to your middle school days of trying to talk to girls and spending too much time in the bathroom with the JC Penney catalog (you know, the phone-book-size one with all the super hot 18-hour bras) as Wing-It......

Sunday 12/10 @ Neumo's Juno Ted Leo + the Pharmacists Junior Boys Cold War Kids SOLD OUT! Sunday was the much ballyhooed Part Two of the sold-out KEXP Yule Benefit. These are always great shows because the crowd is diverse and the mood is chill. The bands know they are playing for KEXP music afficionados like ourselves so they also tend to put on a slightly better show. Sunday was no exception. This odd......

Here's to the ice melting away because there are some good shows this week. Tuesday 28th >>> Cat Power at the Showbox. Chan Marshall plays the piano and sings. Our heart breaks. That's just how it is. She's on NPR, too. *mp3: The Greatest 8pm doors; tickets $30 at the door. >>> The Lemonheads at The Crocodile. Evan Dando's spent the last few years focusing on drugs solo work, but now he's brought back......

These cold nights we've been having really take us back to when we were kids and we had to ruin our awesome Halloween costumes with coats and bulky sweatpants to keep warm. The kids are out there working hard this Halloween night, so don't be an ass. Cough up the candy. Tuesday 31st, Halloween Night >>>"Devo Tribute Night" at Chop Suey. Teeth and Hair, The Pleasureboaters, The Torn ACLs, A Gun That Shoots Knives.........

Wednesday, October 25 >>>Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater, 7:30-10pm. Are you afraid of the dimmed lights in a theater? A Guide to Visitors presents their annual Ghost Story night. Spooky stories about haunted office buildings and ghost quests, told by people such as the woman who leads a ghost tour of Pike Place Market. The press release says the Jewel Box is haunted, so maybe the dead will chip in a tale or two themselvs.......

Wednesday 25th >>> Cut Chemist and Lyrics Born at Neumo's. If Cut Chemist's contributions to Ozomatli are a highlight of your personal musical history, Seattlest will buy you a drink. We're just praying that Lyrics Born actually has some new material this time around, sheesh. 8pm; $18 adv/$20 door. Pigeon John opens and it's all ages, shorties. >>> Ziggy Marley at The Showbox. Bob's best-looking son does reggae just like daddy. 8pm; $30 adv/$32......

Wednesday, October 18 >>>EMP, 6pm. First The Police's Andy Summers gets interviewed by EMP Senior Curator, Jasen Emmons. Then he signs his book, One Train Later: A Memoir. You need tickets to stand in the "Don't Stand So Close To Me" book-signing line, available with purchase of the book from University Book Store. Andy will sign one piece of memorabilia per copy of his book. Did we mention he has a book out? $5......

Wednesday, October 11 >>>University Temple United Methodist Church, 7:30pm. Religious believers can be co-opted, argues distinguished biologist and secular humanist E.O. Wilson in his talk "The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion." Blah blah salvation of biodiversity blah glory of nature blah work together. We dislike this automatic Religion-and-Science connection ("Ballet and Groundskeeping: A New Unity"), but he's a smartie. Could be worth it. Suggested donation: $5 at the door. >>>UW Information School, 7:00-9:00pm.......

Tuesday 10th >>> Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at The Showbox, with Architecture in Helsinki and Takka Takka. A KEXP benefit show, playing Tuesday and Wednesday. 8pm; All ages Tuesday, 21+ Wednesday; Sold Out! (Craig's List has some for sale or trade) >>> Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez at The Tractor. alt.country would just be whiney cowboys without Chip Taylor, and the fiddle would just be a pansy cello without Carrie Rodriguez. 8pm; $12......

October is here! That means candy apples, inappropriate costumes, and tons of live music. Tuesday 3rd >>> Scissor Sisters at The Showbox. Final night to get your gay on with these beautiful boys and girls. 8pm doors; $30. SOLD OUT! - Looks like Craig's List might still have some though. All ages, bar w/ ID >>> Kristin Hersh with David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) at The Triple Door. Former Throwing Muses frontlady Kristin Hersh......

Yeah, we know you just spent all weekend at Bumbershoot. Is the wee little baby tired? Can't handle any more music? Ah, look at that poodum... Wednesday 6th >>> The Original Superstars of Jazz Fusion at The Triple Door. Everyone who survived the jazz fusion movement without a dehabilitating acid freakout assembles here to fry your mind the natural way. 7pm/10pm; $45/50. You can only buy tix for the 10pm online. >>> Boards of......

After kicking our collective asses for four consecutive days, the heat is finally backing down. So pull yourself together. Go outside again -- especially to Capitol Hill this weekend. Tuesday 25th >>> The Long Winters at Sonic Boom in Ballard. Putting The Days To Bed, the third LP from Seattle's The Long Winters, combines the lyrical intimacy and melodic complexity of the Ultimatum EP with the guitar pop rave-ups of the bands previous full lengths.......

The almost universal reaction to Howard Schultz's pathetic attempt to spin his sale of the Sonics as the best step for keeping the team in Seattle has been this: how stupid do you think we are? Art Theil: Hey Howard, We're Not Morons. Steve Kelley: Schultz Sold Out Seattle. John McGrath in the Tacoma News Tribune, calls the news conference "fake." Schultz did an interview this morning with KJR's Mitch Levy, in which he......

With the first days of summer already on us, it's a perfect time to start thinking about your summer music plans. There were two recent pre-sale ticket announcements that got the gears turning in our heads at Seattlest: Bumbershoot (Sept 2-4) and the KEXP BBQ (Aug 13). While the complete line-up for both of these events has yet to be announced (We aren't overly hyped on the initial Bumbershoot line-up!), both events will give more......