Recommended show + free tickets: Hotels CD release at Columbia City Theater this Friday {4/27}
Seattle post-punk(ish) new wave band Hotels just released their latest EP Cinemascope I, the first of a series of three EPs that the band plan…
Recommended Show(s) + free tickets: Matthew Sweet Girlfriend Tour at The Triple Door {4/25-26}
If you listened to radio at all in the 90s, you couldn't escape hearing Matthew Sweet's swirling guitar-filled, gets-stuck-in-your-head, bouncy hit "Girlfriend". And if you…
Recommended show + free tickets: We Are Augustines at the Neptune {4/9}
It seems like only yesterday that I was standing at Zilker Park in Austin, finally feeling about four percent relief from the heat post-sunset, losing…
Free ticket Friday: Andrew Bird at the Paramount {4/9}
As we mentioned back in January, here in the imaginary office we are perpetually super-stoked on all things from the Andrew Bird camp, and the…
Recommended show + free tickets: Sharon Van Etten at the Neptune {3/25}
As if the upcoming week of shows isn't good enough already -- two nights of Magnetic Fields, Mudhoney at the Tractor, and Nada Surf, just…
Recommended show + free tickets: Nada Surf at the Neptune {3/24}
Remember that time when Nada Surf brought serious amounts of rock to the stage and melted our faces off with Say Hi at the Tractor?…
Recommended show + free tickets: Allo Darlin / The Wave Pictures at Vera {5/11}
Even though I've had almost two months to let it sink in, it still hasn't hit me: Seattle will get to see Allo Darlin on…
Recommended Show + Ticket Giveaway! Win tix to Magnetic Fields at the Neptune {3/19 & 3/20}
Huzzah! The Magnetic Fields are coming to Seattle (!!!) and we've got a pair of tickets for you to win! One of the Imaginary Girls'…
Recommended Show + Ticket Giveaway! Win tix to Blue Skies for Black Hearts {3/9}
One of the excellent bands that caught my attention last year is Portland's Blue Skies for Black Hearts, who opened for Tennis Pro last summer.…
Recommended Show + Free Tickets: Eighteen Individual Eyes at the Crocodile {3/1}
If you’ve never heard of Eighteen Individual Eyes before, you may not be alone -- but if you don’t take a listen now, you soon…