Tonight's recommended show: The Head and the Heart at Columbia City Theater
If you're kicking yourself about missing The Head and the Heart last month at Block Party, The Comet, and/or Sonic Boom, you're in luck: our…
God's Favorite Beefcake, Bat Country, The Mongrel Jews hit Can Can w/Dark Carnival Show {August 15}
One of the big, bushy-bearded, barrel-chested shows of the month (for a variety of reasons, including creative members all sloshing about together and playing vociferously),…
Athens Popfest countdown: Witches would be right at home in the NW
Up next in the bands I'm chomping at the bit to see at Athens Popfest are Athens locals Witches, another band I hadn't heard until…
Athens Popfest countdown: My not-so-introverted romance with P.S. Eliot
Last summer, I was on tour for 2 months, and for several weeks, we arrived in town after town (and often, to the same venue)…
Win two tickets to the 2010 No Depression Festival at Marymoor {8/21}
Check it out! We're giving away two tickets to this year's No Depression festival! On August 21st, the grounds of Marymoor Park (Redmond, WA) will…
Athens Popfest countdown: Go Sailor is my indie pop Ray of Sunshine
For this next installment of Athens Popfest hysteria, let me geek out about one of my favorite indie pop bands ever, the venerable Go Sailor,…
Tonight's recommended show: Nathaniel Rateliff at the Triple Door
Nathaniel Rateliff is playing tonight at the Triple Door. For ten dollars. As we've said so many times before, do not miss this show. Period.…
Athens Popfest countdown: Standard Fare is my new favorite band
{photographer of adorable photo unknown, but from the Bar/None website} Holy moly! Athens Popfest is just over a week away! I'm spotlighting a handful of…
Recommended for Saturday: The "K-Streets" sing "It's Your Birthday" at the Sunset {7/31}
Ah, the K-Streets... I last saw them in the winter, and I guess now is the time to see them in the summer - a…
Best news of the day: Idlewild at The Crocodile on November 20
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiV1DtfKXAA] Be still my Scottish-loving heart. One of my favorite bands --the kind I have flown over oceans to see-- Idlewild is coming to Seattle…