It's the weekend before Christmas which means holiday party season has kicked into high gear.  This weekend there are so many shows to choose from {it's like a mistletoe'd SXSW or something} that my eggnog'd head is spinning. Might we suggest:

***Friday, December 18***

BOAT / The Exploding High Fives / Concours d'Elegance at the Sunset Tavern
A holiday party with BOAT? I'll take that! Also on the bill is The Exploding High Fives who have a song "Since You're Not Here for Christmas" on their myspace which is Ben Folds cute and catchy.  This confirms I'll be in Ballard tonight for this show.

The Head & The Heart / Star Lake Drownings / Your Favorite Book at Conor Byrne
As you may know, Your Favorite Book is one of my favorite Seattle performers. Star Lake Drownings killed it at hour Holiday show last year. Also, YFB shows are rare, so I'm hoping to catch a wee bit of this show tonight.

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We're quite pleased to have a pair of tickets to see her next big performance event: Rosie Thomas & Friends Present: A Very Rosie Christmas! The evening's show/festivities will take place at Town Hall on (this) Sunday, December 14th.

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at The Triple Door

Everything about the evening though was wonderful. My friend and I were seated in the front row of the Triple Door, the sound was, as is par for the course at this venue, pristine (the Triple Door is seriously the best place to view a live show in Seattle), another friend opened the show and played to almost a full room and Rosie Thomas was incredibly likeable and charming and funny.

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at Town Hall

If you are against helping children reading, or against laughing or hearing good music or reading good writing, well, you’re problems go far beyond anything some writing center on Greenwood Avenue can cure.

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In addition to good times, People Talking and Singing has become one the most important – and critical – fundraising events 826 Seattle hosts each year. All proceeds directly support the writing lives of thousands of young people in Seattle.

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AstroPOP! for April 2007 features astrologically-inclined record reviews from Erin McKeown, the Makes Nice, Tim Fite, Danny Cohen, Cloud Cult, Huge Rat Attacks, Tap Tap, Birds of Wales, Rosie Thomas, Patient Patient, Lost in the Trees, and Jill Cunniff. Read, listen, and be prepared for the month ahead!

Tonight's bill at the Crocodile is a soothing alt-country flavored line up of up and coming Seattle bands

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at The Echo

The woman who is on stage singing about the intricacies of her life and relationships will still take the time to school the audience of renting porn with your parents, making balloon animals, and having the urgent need to go to the bathroom after the next song.

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Sub Pop chanteuse Rosie Thomas delivers an honest an introspective record that contains several beautiful songs all sung in a smoothly soft-spoken voice that could give any modern-day diva a run for her money.

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at The Crocodile

Sub Pop's 15th birthday party show. Good music, shirtless Thermals. I knew this night was going to be magical.

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