Lasers! Lucinda Williams! Crazy loud music and hottie-hot KEXP DJs! What are you doing tonight? more ›

HOOT AND HOLLER: On Monday we gave readers a heads up about Hootenanny for a Healthy Gulf, a gulf coast benefit starring Duff McKagen and Pearl Jam's Mike McReady. The event benefits the non-profit organization Gulf Restoration Network, a group devoted to protecting and restoring Gulf Region resources since 1994. With the recent anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing disaster that is the BP oil spill, we are reminded that this important and vital region needs as much help today as it ever has. The night has bunches of fun planned, fun in the form of silent auctions, raffles, even an audience sing-a-long. Joining McReady and McKagen are Pete Droge, Shawn Smith, Star Anna, Mark Pickerel, Kim Virant, Justin Davis, Tim DiJulio, and many musicians. Where there's good to do and fun to be had, we'll be there. more ›

NOLLYWOOD!: Since the weather's perfect, contrarians will want to shoebox themselves inside the U District's tiny Grand Illusion Theatre to catch a documentary about Nigeria's burgeoning B-movie film industry. Nollywood Babylon, which Film Threat calls "Irresistible," is about to close, and you don't want to make a liar of Film Threat, do you? No, you do not. Also it's a Canadian documentary, and it's Canada Day. If that doesn't get you there, we throw our hands up. more ›

WaMu no more, BECU Zoo Tunes summer concert series is back again and this time with a new sponsor and a new kick-ass lineup. Bringing "Love Shack" to the Woodland Park Zoo--and presumably driving the animals crazy--the iconic B-52s will be kicking off the series on June 17. Adding two more shows to the series, this year's Zoo Tunes will also bring back 2008 fan favorites: Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, and Amos Lee. Tickets go on sale 8 a.m. Monday, May 4, at all Metropolitan Market locations. Zoo Tunes 2009 complete lineup after the jump.
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WHAT A WICKED GAME YOU PLAY: There's some pretty good national names hitting town tonight. But, since Emmylou Harris is sold out at the Zoo, perhaps you'll enjoy the warbling sounds of Chris Isaak at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. Tickets for that are still on sale. more ›

THAT'S SO DOPE: Dope Emporium is a free festival of all things hiphop: DJs, MCs, spoken word artists, graffiti artists, and more. It's going down as part of Artopia, an arts extravaganza in the extremely dope neighborhood of Georgetown, so hop on a bus and experience some of the best Seattle hiphop has to offer. Our picks: Candidt, Orbitron, B-Girl Bench, Waves of the Mind and Dim Mak. Hot! more ›

When Seattlest was just a wee lesbian growing up in a small southern town, we did what we reckon other wee small-town lesbians did: we listened to a lot of k.d. lang and the Indigo Girls. We went on long road trips across the whole state with the windows down, our other closeted friends with us, singing "Galileo" at the top of our lungs. Ah, those good ol' days of closeted small-town life. more ›

Remember how we said that ZooTunes was going to be kicking this summer? Well, Marymoor is kicking harder, at least initially. It's kicking off with a big double sucker-punch to the Zoo: Erykah Badu and The Roots. On the same night: June 5. And then it'll kind of fizz out. more ›

We've been looking forward to this day for weeks. Mainly because ZooTunes is one of our very favorite concert series. Who doesn't love an excuse to sit out on the grass at the zoo, grab a plastic cup of some local beer, a picnic dinner, and watch world class singer/songwriters have at it? more ›