at Chop Suey

See the setlist and some amazing photos from last night's Exile in {Imaginary} Girlville bash!

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Practice all your moves, and mark your calendars: Celebrate TIGs sixth anniversary with us at Chop Suey on June 25!

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Chop Suey. Tonight, Wednesday night, June 25th. Doors at 8p, "6'1"" starts promptly at 9p. Come celebrate six fabulous years of TIG with us.

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We've been counting down until the magical day of TIG's 6th birthday blowout and tribute to the 15th anniversary of Liz Phair's amazing debut album Exile in Guyville in our imaginary heads for quite a while - but now let's make it official.

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Lucy Bland's themes are of sensuality in relationships, whether it be swimming lightly through social waves or complete submersion into the lives of others.

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It is with great pleasure and pride that we can say we're back to our old podcasting ways! Our brand new podcast highlights the nine amazing bands who will play at our Exile in {Imaginary} Girlville} show on June 25 at Chop Suey.

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Three Imaginary Girls will celebrate our sixth birthday with an Exile in {Imaginary} Girlville bash at Chop Suey on June 25, 2008, which will feature the music of Liz Phair's seminal debut Exile in Guyville performed in order by a bunch of our favorite Northwest bands of the moment. This podcast highlights the music of those bands. Enjoy!

The night is called "Exile in {Imaginary} Girlville," it's going down June 25th at Chop Suey, and it's going to be an INCREDIBLE party!

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What if Bjork grew up in Ballard? That is a really reductive and deceptive way of describing her sound, but Lucy Bland has an incandescent one, and it encompasses more than someone somewhat inspired by an Icelandic avant-pop airport-brawler playing synth and singing sweetly on Market Street for spare change.

Tonight Bland is playing The Comet on Cap Hill, on a bill with terrific 80s-Anglo pop-rockers Blue Skies For Black Hearts ("Siouxsie Please Come Home," anyone? That's the opening track on their new album, "Seranades and Hand Grenades." These guys are hopefully as fun live as they are on the disc).

Most of us will be still partying from KEXP day in Ballard and could use some new music both a bit sugary and substantial. Bland combines an alternately spriteful and luxuriant electronic pop sound, remarkably assisted by restrained strings (both violin and cello) and an occasional broad bass throb, with her ocean-obsessed songs about romantic engulfment and rescue.

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See what's in the stars -- and the record stores -- for you for June 2006, featuring reviews of the latest releases from the Court & Spark, Nouvelle Vague, Conner, the Village Green, CSS, and more.

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