We clued you in to this last October, but now it's official: Sub Pop Records is celebrating its 20-year existence with a three-day comedy and music festival July 11-13. And the (initial) lineup, though weighted more heavily in the hipster-ish now, features a few super acts from the label's big then. Per yesterday's press release: The SP20 activities will commence with a comedy show on July 11 at The Moore Theatre. Among the performing......

Seattle-based music magazine No Depression will cease publishing after its May-June 2008 issue. No Depression is a bi-monthly print music magazine focusing on the umbrella of American roots music - covering artists as varied as Willie Nelson to The Shins. The magazine has been offering their take on American music since 1995, when they published their first issue. In an open letter to their readers, the publishers of No Depression explain how they've come......

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." As well they should. They were the fuse to said bands’ (and others’) genre-birthing TNT, after all. And though maybe not as globally revered since the......

Rob Gordon once said, "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules." Thanks Rob. Well said. If Rob's take......

Our first taste of the 2007 Bumbershoot lineup leaves us hungry for so much more. The full-flavored list of cross-genre musical artists scheduled to perform at the 2007 Bumbershoot includes: The Shins, Wu-Tang Clan, Panic! At The Disco, Crowded House, Lupe Fiasco, Steve Earle, DeVotchKa, Devendra Banhart, Gogol Bordello, Kill Hannah, Norma Jean, Plain White T's, The Gourds, Lyrics Born, Roky Erickson & The Explosives, The Holmes Brothers, The Avett Brothers, Yungchen Lhamo, Allison......

There' a constant ebb and flow when it comes to the music we love. Sometimes it seems like there's just nothing interesting out there. Nothing to light us up when we listen at home, in our car or on the bus, eyes closed. And then sometimes we find ourselves hauling fist-fulls of new music to the counter of our favorite record store. This week we've been all about Aqueduct's Or Give Me Death, Jesse Sykes......

--Northwest stocks weren't immune from yesterday's stock downturn. The market is up so far, though. --The state 4A boys and girls tournaments tip off at 9am today. Garfield plays at 10:30am, Franklin at 8:30pm. Webcasts here. --I Make Things visits the Museum of Telecommunication on Marginal Way, which we're ashamed to say we didn't know about. --Popular councilman Peter Steinbrueck won't run for reelection, he'll form a coalition to support a surface/transit option to replace......

MARDI GRAS: Greg Vandy, who hosts KEXP's Swingin' Doors from 6-9pm on Thursdays, hosts the Sunset Tavern's 9th annual Mardi Gras ball. Promising real New Orleans food and music. 7pm // Sunset Tavern [5433 Ballard Avenue] // $5 BASKETBALL: Roosevelt, who lost a heartbreaker in OT to Garfield on Saturday night, plays Redmond in a loser-out district game tonight. 8:15pm // Juanita High School [10601 NE 132nd St., Kirkland] // $7 MUSIC: One last night......

Here at Seattlest, we yawn when you discuss the "Rose" Bowl, or the Final "Four." The moment we wait for to validate our University of Washington pride comes every January, when the Peace Corps announces which U.S. university provided the most Peace Corps volunteers. U-Dub! U-Dub! That's right! Even if we're innumerable places behind them in the NCAA basketball rankings, we finally beat out Wisconsin-Madison in the competition for being the school that sends the......

Wednesday, January 3 >>> The Intelligence at Chop Suey. We're still waiting for a new album from these local guys - hopefully one that's more Google-able than their 2005 Icky Baby. This show also includes Partman Parthorse and our personal faves the Pleasureboaters. 8pm; $6. 21+ Thursday, January 4 >>> Kled at the High Dive. Tonight's lineup boasts some of our favorite band names in town, including A Gun that Shoots Knives and We......

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......

When we lived in Los Angeles, we would spend our Saturday evenings in a small theatre watching two shows of "Beer, Shark, Mice" with, among others, the janitor on Scrubs and Champ Kind. Yeah, that show was really funny, but nothing compared to what would follow—Asssscat. We'll say it again because we don’t even give a flying fudge, Asssscat. Made up of the four original members of Upright Citizens Brigade (and this guy), Asssscat......

After the storm passed, most of the crowd reappeared for mainstage-only performances -- the two side stages were shut down. The Tragically Hip picked up where Neko had left off. (MSN Video has excerpts, and is going to be adding more from the whole concert over the week -- they're hoping for around 5 hours of video.) We're not that down with the Hip's brand of vocal stylings and improvisational soliloquizing but we have to......

Seattlest has let a day or two go by without yammering on about the Viaduct, and we're sorry. Luckily, there's new doings in the bass-ackwards transportation saga, reported in the Seattle Times: a bridge concept. Actually, Seattlest already came up with this idea months and months ago, after consuming a bottle of a "quaffable" Cotes du Rhone one evening and being thus reminded of the bridge they built over there that looks so appealing.......