Chicago's The Sea and Cake, touring in support of their 8th (!) full-length, Car Alarm, will be playing Chop Suey Saturday night. The video above for "Weekend" is a prime example of band's latest output, which sees the band reintroducing electronics and keys to their sound, locked in the groove while avoiding the annoying noodling usually associated with that phrase. The album, recorded quickly after Everybody, was meant to capture the looseness of a live setting. Going full-circle, here's your chance to see if the recorded looseness translates to the stage. more ›

Even if you're going to tonight's John in the Morning at Night, Friday's best bet is DJ/blue-eyed soul man/gold lamé bathrobe-wearer/consummate performer Jamie Lidell, along with opener Janelle Monae at Showbox. Jamie also has an instore at Easy Street Queen Anne this evening at 6:30 p.m. more ›

Tonight, drink pricey beers at the WaMu Theater (hey, they need the money!) before The Kills and The Raconteurs. You best get there early; believe us, it takes a lotta beers to make Jack White look pretty, but no drinks at all to make him sound good. more ›

Tonight's the all-ages Red Bull Big Tune Battle at Neumo's. It's a big hiphop competition (twelve producers are picked to compete, whittled down from the eighty who applied from all over the Northwest and even northern California), and the regional showdown for one of the only legit national beat battles. This year's featured guests are Detroit's Black Milk and Elzhi. more ›

Break out the hackysack and butterfly wings, because former Phish bassist Mike Gordon is at the Tractor tonight in support of his new solo record, The Green Sparrow. more ›

Tonight, everybody's favorite local chanteuse Jesse Sykes plays a free KEXP show at Seattle Center's Mural Ampitheater, featuring music from her new EP Gentleness of Nothing. (Tomorrow night, Rocky Votolato plays the Mural.) more ›

It's hard to believe, but the Dandy Warhols' sixth studio full-length (and the first on their own label) Earth To The Dandy Warhols will be out this August. The tongue-in-cheek Portland alt-rock band plays the Showbox SoDo tonight. Not sure if it would be a better or worse show if longtime frenemies Brian Jonestown Massacre crashed the gig. more ›

No, Seattle, you didn't read that headline or poster wrong. There are plans in the works to turn Seattle's venerable dive bar, the Blue Moon, into a warm and welcoming womb tomorrow night. The Blue Moon has been described as many many things--but warm, welcoming, and womb-like have probably never been used in its 70+ years of business. However, considering the guys behind this great band picture are designing the womb, we have the utmost faith that we'll have to be physically removed from the clutches of the Blue Moon tomorrow night by cold surgical hands. (Or at the very least, by Tom, the door guy.) more ›