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If your squeezed-by-gas-and-groceries-and-“strip club” budget doesn’t cover flying east this month to catch Pearl Jam at Bonnaroo or Madison Square Garden, may we suggest a cheaper, closer, and more summer-vacation-y alternative: VH1’s Rock Honors show in Los Angeles on July 12.

Happy Monday, Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder fans. The frontman-gone-sometimes-solo can be seen on VH1 today in the video for “Guaranteed,” his acclaimed song from the (brief, but really effing great) Into the Wild soundtrack.

Vedder’s first solo music video—for his critically lauded and Grammy-nominated Into the Wild song “Guaranteed”—airs on VH1 (and VH1.com) on Monday. Perfect timing, then, for the ever-more-famous guy to bump into his 1992 self while browsing Easy Street’s vinyl bins. Serendipity!

Have you outgrown Adam Sandler, yet long for foul-mouthed, self-effacing, Jewish-themed humor? It would be too Borscht-belt to make a yarmulke and dreidl joke here, but we'll leave to your imagination to suppose we did. Tonight at the Triple Door, Good for the Jews rocks the house. Or shtetl. If that's what a shtetl is. Oy!

Seventeen teams showed up at the Old Pequliar last night to see if our voice would give out. We managed to get through the evening without having a Peter Brady moment, but we're grateful to those of you who were willing to step up to the mic at a moment's notice.

Before she came out, walked to center stage and stole our hearts, we were lucky to have made it to the Moore in time to catch the last couple songs from the ex Moldy Peaches guitarist, Only Son. Actually it was more like two songs and a story. A story put to music, told pretty much off-the-cuff and in the first-person about a guy in a grocery store. He sees a girl. She's cute, but he's insecure and awkward and thinks maybe he should avoid the inevitable crushing rejection and just go home to his ever-loving and non-judgmental video games. It could have been one of those you-had-to-be-there moments to really appreciate it, but Only Son (Jack Dishel) was funny and charming and talented enough to win us over.

We were watching the final episode of VH-1's The Next White Rapper last night and the most ridiculous character on the show was surprisingly not one of the final two rappers (although John "King of the Burbs" Brown is pretty fucking ridiculous), but one of the celebrity music producer guest judges. We can't remember what the guy's name was so there's no way we'll be able to dig up a picture of him, but imagine a man-boy-like skeleton decked out in fat chains and a skewed mesh baseball hat. Dude, you're like 85 years old. Aren't you going to grow up before you die? The music industry is awesome and no small part of that awesomeness is directly attributable to the Peter Pan executives and producers who steal away with all the money in return for appearing in public in some hilarious get-up every now and then.

Tuesday, January 9

Not a huge week in music, but hey, it's a holiday. Stay home and eat! Then put your sweatpants on!

Jose Gonzalez - Seattlest managed to find entry into the KEXP's live broadcast area featuring Bumbershoot artists. Jose Gonzalez's set was absolutely perfect, the smaller crowd (~30 people) and intimate staging perfect for his one man, one guitar formula. It was funny to watch some of the ladies get swoony over him, and we have to admit we were getting pretty starry eyed ourselves.

This week Seattlest invites you to get your hand out of your pants and join us for some shows...

Behind perhaps only Andrew Sullivan (or Michael Musto if you live life through VH1) Dan Savage is our country's most prominent gay. From time to time in Seattle we may think of him merely as "that dude from The Stranger" but the guy is syndicated in a hell of lot of papers around the country, writes a decent book, and generally makes a lot of sense when he appears on television to discuss serious subjects. He's a National Voice, and we have precious few of those. Because of that, it is your civic duty as a bookish Seattleite to not only purchase Dan Savage's new book "The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family," but to attend his reading tomorrow night at Bailey/Coy Books.

Do you remember that show 'Remember the 70s' on VH1? It spawned 'Remember the 80s', 'Remember the 90s’, and 'Celebrity Fit Club.' Well get ready for 'Remember the Gubernatorial Election.' It's going to be a fun time as we look back and remember the election that never really ended…oh my god, is that what we were wearing in 2004?

If you aren't going to the U2 show, we recommend in honor of our favorite holiday (sorry Arbor Day, we hate to break it to you), we would like to let you know VH1 Classic is showing 'Matzo and Metal: A Very Classic Passover' on Sunday Apr. 24 at 7 PM. The guests include Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and JJ French and Scott Ian of Anthrax. We find this show very appropriate since there are few moments more metal in the Old Testament then Moses turning his staff into a snake. Put some spandex on him and it would look exactly like a Megadeth show. Plus, Dee Snider looks alarmingly like our late Aunt.

Sure, Modest Mouse is sold out. Bob Dylan is sold out (though for the life of us we can't understand why). If you are, however, looking for live music this evening, your best bet is KRS-One at Chop Suey. He was a member of the legendary Boogie Down Productions, which despite its embarrassing name was one of the most important hip-hop bands of the 80s (you know, the decade that VH1 likes to have shows about). He is a master of thoughtful and substanative rhymes about politics, race and culture. Really, he is the "anti-Nelly," and we can think of no better endorsement of a musician out there then being the "anti-Nelly."