The Admiral Theatre has reinvented itself from an old silent movie haunt into a 400-person show venue.

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New AAN songs, and a bold night of experimental rock at the comfy and fun Tractor. Both sound like a good deal to me!

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As of today, we're officially in the second half of 2008. Welcome! To gear you up for another fabulous six months of local Northwest releases, we here at imaginary headquarters have brainstormed an imaginary mix for all of you, containing some of our favorite songs by Northwest artists released this year to date thus far.

No promises that each of these will make our Best of 2008 Reader's Poll final list, but at least this way you have the next six months to follow-up and listen to these releases before you have to decide. To paraphrase imaginary ChrisB, we feel like this list is pretty unfuckwithable. But that doesn't mean that we didn't inadvertently overlook something great. If you have additions for our list, please chime in with your comments below.

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at Neumo's

Foals more than entertained with their breakneck tempos, high-energy antics, and tidal wave of danceable hits.

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at Chop Suey

Don’t you love when you go to a show and the band plays a string of songs that you’ve heard many times but didn't realize it was them?

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The band just emailed us with some great news. They've been in the studio for the past month and a half with Ben Kersten (Grand Archives) working on their next full-length. And {this is the best part}: They posted four new tracks to their MySpace page.

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at The Tractor Tavern

The new album "Only As The Day Is Long" dominated the set list and rightfully so. The album is truly something special to experience live.

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Just a friendly imaginary reminder: if you're heading to the Vera Project tonight, local band S is no longer on the bill (they had to cancel because of a family emergency).

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The winners in the TIG Best Northwest Releases of 2006 Readers' Poll, including BOAT, the Decemberists, the Long Winters, Band of Horses, the Thermals, and um, 45 more.

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AstroPOP! for August 2006 features tracks from Oneida, Tender Trap, Downpilot, Burn to Shine, Panda and Angel, Martian Memo to God, Miraflores, Vivian Linden, Le Volume Courbe, Old Haunts, Dept of Energy, and The Zero Points.