Time magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year: According to Dante, everything else pared in comparison to Daft Punk at WaMu Theater 7/29/07. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

Our daily drug of choice… Seattlest has been busy burning the midnight concert oil the past couple weekends and we’ve got some reporting to do. With all the great new releases already this year, the amazing shows, and intriguing spring concert schedule; 2007 looks to be Epic. Need proof? Our noses have been stuffy and our chests congested (it is the cold & flu season); but in the past week alone we’ve managed to......

Rock stars are dark and mysterious, calculating and philanthropic, and almost always stylish and physically attractive. And then there are Jack Black and Kyle Gass. The collectively overweight, bad-toothed, bald, poorly dressed, and lyrically challenged duo who call themselves The Greatest Band on Earth showed Friday’s Paramount crowd how truly enigmatic rock stars can be when they twist, shout, and don’t take themselves seriously. As the house lights went down, the crowd roared, and the......

ART: Roq La Rue hosts Detroit's celebrated lowbrow underground artist Glenn Barr for the signing of his new hardcover book Haunted Paradise. 6-8pm // Roq La Rue, 2312 2nd Ave // Free RAWK: Tenacious D brings their over-the-top metal spectacular to the Paramount for one night only. 8pm // The Paramount // $37.50 MUSIC: Grizzly Bear at Neumo's. Yellow House is a great album (among the best from last year), but it wasn't until......

Seattlest got paid today. What does that mean? Off to the record store we go. On our list today: Sufjan Stevens: Songs For Christmas (for tolerable Christmas music at home this year), Built To Spill: You In Reverse (finally), Joanna Newsom: Ys (we just stumbled upon her online today), and The Shins: Phantom Limb EP (for the wife. She finds them just adorable). So what's the rest of Seattle listening to this week? Here are......

Seattlest hit the first local showing of Snakes on a Plane last night at Cinerama. It was Seattlest, our friends, and about 1,000 high-school kids. The ticket-holders line was a few hundred strong, stretching nearly the entire block betweeen Lenora and Blanchard. We slowly got drunk on clandestine vodka, and yelled at passing cars. The theater itself (doors opened at 9) was raucous. Previews were welcomed with enthusiasm--it helped that they were for the new......