VINYL IS SO IN RIGHT NOW: DJs, music collectors, and music lovers of all sorts who also happen to own a record player should consider heading down to the powerhouse Big Dig Record Show in Eastlake tonight. You'll probably score some great deals on the vinyl you've been lusting after, and in the process you'll get the opportunity to meet (and get drunk with) fellow collectors. The truly picky passionate will need to pay an extra chunk of change to get in the doors at 3 p.m. for the best chance of finding that rare EP you can't even get on eBay. There's an official afterparty, too, featuring the Emerald City Soul Club and Mr Supreme, legendary Seattle dj and record collector extraordinaire. more ›

It seems that another year will pass without a Pearl Jam concert in Seattle. So it goes. Of no small consolation: Between trips to the studio to record their next album, the band's members will appear all over town in the coming months. Here's who, where, and when: more ›

Pearl Jam's rhythm guitarist, who recently recorded with Fags' bassist Barbara Ireland, will join the reunited local early-80s act tonight at the King Cat Theater. (Thanks for the tip, Marlow Harris.) $15 gets you in to see that band (minus original singer Charles "Upchuck" Gerra, who died of AIDS in 1991), Ginger Coyote and the White Trash Debutantes, and the Nasty Habits—and the CD Upchuck: Gone But Not Forgiven, a new collection of Gerra's notable works. Should be muy interesante. Stone's next Seattle gig? Backing Vince Mira at the Showbox on November 1. more ›

“With” isn’t exactly accurate—local Johnny Cash-channeling singer/strummer Vince Mira is headlining a show at The Living Room in New York on September 14. Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, who recruited Mira to record on his upcoming Hank Williams tribute album, is opening for the teen sensation (and his backers, the Roy Kay Trio). The show, billed as “Walk the Line for HDSA,” is "in celebration of 72-year-old Don Stevenson [a former pastor from Auburn] for walking 13,000 miles to raise awareness and funds” for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. Tickets range between $30 (standing room) and $250 (raffle entries and after-party). May we suggest the duo put on a sister show in Seattle? At the Triple Door, maybe? Just a thought. more ›

Last weekend, Seattlest revisited the other Shorewood High School for our 20-year reunion. And it's been 20 years since Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court left Lakeside High, so on our flight to Milwaukee, we got reacquainted with Cameron Crowe's Say Anything.... Singles gets the Seattle-centric attention, but Say Anything... is the movie where Seattle first caught our eye, several years before we actually moved to the land of the Gas 'n' Sip. more ›

Sup Pop is well-known for unabashed self-promotion and grandiose overstatement. Thing is, most of that (tongue-in-cheek) hyperbole is deserved. The much-touted reunion of Green River, one of the label's first signees, was no different. It truly was the highlight of Sub Pop's two-day 20th birthday bash. more ›

Without Green River in 1984, there might be no Sub Pop Records today. Without Sub Pop in 1987, there might be no Mudhoney—or even Pearl Jam—in 2008. (Green River begat Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone; MLB begat PJ.) And without either in the 80s, there likely would have been no "Seattle Sound" explosion in the early 90s. more ›

Well, not exactly. Eddie Vedder wasn't involved. And it's a "new rendition of an old-school tune"—a cover of the 1955 ditty "Rock Around the Clock." The "new rendition" doesn't amount to much more than a single-word swap; "Clock," in both title and refrain, has been replaced by "Barack." more ›

Last night there were tons of Ron Paul's people outside the Showbox Sodo. Before, during, and after Barack Obama's fundraising event/rally, the Paul supporters waved their signs and interacted with anyone who would give them the time of day. Too bad they couldn't afford tickets to the event due to the current tax structure--if only someone would abolish the IRS and the Federal Reserve.... Meanwhile, inside the venue was a crowd of teens, twenty-somethings,... more ›

Seattlest doesn't know crap about jazz. (Until we recently drank a Brother Thelonious, we thought Monk was actually a dude in an orange robe.) But staple a big-time Seattle rock drummer (above, going off solo) to a jazz act and we're interested enough to listen and learn. more ›

The Onion AV Club says Mudhoney's 1991 album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is worth a re-listen. Say they:

[EGBDF] came out two months before Nirvana's Nevermind—and in a sense, it's the Bizarro Nevermind ... Every Good Boy in hindsight sounds like the grunge that should've been: ratty, humble, punky, weird, and catchy without resorting to grunting machismo.

It’s been five years since soft-rock-but-hard-when-they-want-to-be Brad has released a proper album, and about three years since they’ve played live. Now the local quartet (Shawn Smith, Stone Gossard, Mike Berg and Regan Hagar), one of our favorite bands anywhere, is back in action—they’ve got an album in the works and they’re playing NYC and Seattle this month. more ›

In a few seasons, Seattle indie stalwart Sub Pop will shed its adolescent husk and turn 20. Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, the dudes who put Soundgarden and Nirvana in bins before major label reps stormed Seattle, will, according to this bio, celebrate "as conspicuously as they can manage." more ›

Musical hyphenate-extraordinaire Shawn Smith has been fronting bands and playing solo in Seattle for about 15 years. As recent, local music history goes, he’s as seminal a figure as Kurt Cobain—and more prolific—though not nearly as high-profile. He should be. more ›

This past Friday, Steinbrueck Park was the site of a free, four-hour concert that punctuated Pike Place Market’s Centennial Celebration. It was a great time to be a proud, passionate Seattleite. A wonderful time to be a frugal tourist. And, despite a tiny bit of Pearl Jam-overpromising by Party promoters, a perfect time to be Seattlest. more ›

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Seven years ago tomorrow, nine people died in a wet, muddy, suffocating crowd surge during a Pearl Jam show at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. This past Tuesday, the band was back to play Copenhagen for the first time since the tragedy. more ›

Chris Cornell formed Temple of the Dog along with Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Mike McCready to perform a couple of tribute songs for Chris's roommate Andrew Wood who had ODed in 1990. A couple of those guys also played in Mother Love Bone with Wood, who was previously known as Landrew the Love Child. This is a letter from Wood explaining that his presence in the band Mother Love Bone doesn't mean that an earlier project, Malfunkshun, was over. more ›

Not content to raise money by selling candy bars, Northwest School has drafted Pearl Jam, Presidents of the United States of America, Ann & Nancy Wilson (of Heart), and Bill Frisell to play a benefit March 18th at the Paramount. more ›