It's all happening!

***UPDATE***

Since this post, two stellar things have come to pass: one, Quasi and Rocky Votolato have been added to the line-up, which has taken the night from full-throttle amazing-style to absolute non-negotiable -- and two, we've got not one, but two pairs of tickets to give away to the show!

We'll be running a ticket giveaway for the next week, and all you've got to do is send us a love letter telling us why we should pick you and a friend to be our lucky free attendees! Drop that email to tig {at} three imaginary girls {dot} com with the subject line "ColdBeerAndCigarettes" sometime between now and 10a on Thursday, July 14th. We'll pull two lucky winners out of the hat and notify you by email before the end of the business day that Thursday, and you'll be on the list for the show on Saturday night. Easy as that!

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As promised, we sent imaginary photog Jason Tang out to see the Foals / Freelance Whales / Naked and Famous show earlier this week -- for what turned out to be a truly awesome sold-out show. Here's the shots to prove it!

The Naked and Famous:

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Get yr dancing shoes on, ya'll, The Gossip is comin to town. The oft alternatively-spelling Southern trio is coming to Seattle in October, bringing fatty love, fashion, and female empowerment in tow. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 31st at 10:00 AM. They are playing the Showbox, October 23rd. Tickets are $20.00 in advance and $22.00 at the door. This show will likely sell out, so if you wanna rawk with Ditto and co, it's in yr best interest to get tickets early!

The Gossip is touring on their new album Music For Men, which hits stores on October 6th. If the track "Heavy Cross" is any indicator of the quality of this new album, Ditto's fans will be in for a real treat. Again, she splashes her canvas with soul, disco, punk, and gospel, makes them her own, and completely dominates every sound to the fullest.

Find somethin frilly and foxxy, put on your brightest red lipstick and get ready to scream, sweat, and dance yr azz off with the band that says "We will nvr die + we will nvr diet."

Rawk on!

And, because it is about the hawttest thing ever put to tape, and (because it's so hawt outside and this is so cool) check out Beth Ditto and Jarvis Cocker singing "Temptation" by Heaven 17 (I'm done with the spelling,I promise...)

(Amazing photo of the Gossip at CHBP by joshc and from the TIG Flickr Photo Pool)

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The folks at the Showbox / Monqui sent us the skinny on how we can save some bucks on this Saturday's Greg Dulli / Mark Lanegan show at the Showbox (at the Market).

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Turns out Roderick had a few questions of his own for BOAT...

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If Chevrolet called and said they wanted you to design a "J-Rod," what would it look like?

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Nothing thrills our imaginary hearts like hearing new Long Winters songs are on the way... unless it's new Long Winters songs + a show + free tickets to give away to said show.

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Talib Kweli closes out a fantastic Noise for the Needy music festival. Photo by Blush Photo.

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I challenge you to find a more charismatic and talented live band who give as consistently amazing a live performance as Okkervil River.

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Hot Chip at the Showbox, photo by locash and taken from our TIG Sparkly Indie-Pop Photos pool...

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