Bumbershoot sent out an email this morning announcing a bunch of acts for this year's Smaller, Better Festival. There's even more hiphop on the bill with the addition of local act Blue Scholars and Common Market and Brit chick Lady Sovereign (who we're looking forward to seeing with The Streets soon). Area indie rockers Crystal Skulls and Rocky Votolato will be there and to continue the trend of one Brit band for every couple of local acts Badly Drawn Boy is now scheduled. more ›

Tired of sitting around with your friends looking stupid? Of course you are! So get off your ass and check these shows out… more ›

Seattlest was outside the walls recently (Lynnwood) and we managed to catch an earful on the state of Seattle as seen by the right side of the political spectrum. "And they're even worse in Seattle. They're crazies downtown." We were talking about smoking and it was unclear who the denizens of downtown Seattle were worse than and in what fashion. Those comments were courtesy of a legit Joe On The Street, though, so whatever he meant we're taking it to heart. On the other hand you have the established punditocrasy of the right embodied by wanna-be Joe On The Streets like Jonah Goldberg who recently had a few things to say about our enclave: more ›