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{The Posies with Star Anna at the Showbox. Photo by Jason Tang.}

We’ve been through a lot together, The Posies and I. Graduating high school and college, getting married (and then getting divorced), losing and finding myself multiple times, so many drinks I can’t count, and more tears, laughter, pain and happiness than I ever thought was possible when I first popped that freshly unwrapped Failure cassette tape into my boom box.

Through all of it, I’ve caught as many live Posies shows as I could, and each one has been amazing in its own way: from standing so close to the (old) Croc’s speakers that I could literally FEEL the music, to swaying in tandem with an appreciative crowd as Jon & Ken acoustically blew our faces off with their awesome harmonies.

The show Saturday night at The Showbox belongs on the list of the best Posies shows I’ve ever been to. Following a rockin’ set (in which Jon and Ken played) with Brendan Benson (I sadly missed Aqueduct entirely), The Posies took the stage to several enthusiastic cheers—and rightly so.

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at The Showbox at the Market

The New Pornographers packed the Showbox for a second night on August 1st to play to an all-ages crowd that was more than eager to get their dance on. Missed out on the fun? Here are some photos to recap the indie pop-rock brilliance that occured:

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Maybe with drawn-on beards and no doubt charismatically-weird, CocoRosie are coming to the Showbox at the Market this Friday night.

Sisters Sierra and Bianca's new album Grey Oceans has caused a minor fuss with those now feigning boredom with their quasi-outsider "schtick," but as someone who missed liking them when it was keen to do so, I have had a lot of fun with it. Admittedly, most of my love is for "Smokey Taboo" and "Hopscotch," the former kind of stupid but really fetching if you imagine it as tender teenage poetry set to soft bit-hop, and the latter annoying and compelling with a Shirley Temple-like sample leading into Bjork-style warbling. The rest of it alternately pleasures awkwardly and artfully, and that's damn straight-OK with me. Until someone hips me to an earlier recorded era in which they blossomed more brilliantly, I'll enjoy CocoRosie now in my late-discovery ignorance.

With Cibelle opening, CocoRosie should be fun to see live with a bellyful of absinthe or a mildly hallucinogenic brandy, but the good news is that it is an ALL AGES show as well. As long as you damned kids stay out of the bar. Venue opening up at 8 PM, $20 advance and $22 at the door.

You're probably familiar with indie rock outfit Cold War Kids through one of their hit singles, as "Hang Me Up to Dry" and "In Hospitals", both from their debut album Robbers and Cowards, have experienced heavy rotation on radio stations across America. Their singles are infectious, with lead singer Nathan Willett leading the steady song rythms by wailing his heart out with a bit of swagger and a touch of soul.

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Hey, there's peanut butter in my awesome! There's awesome in my peanut butter! Do you like cheap tickets? Do you like X? Here are 2 great tastes that taste great together!

If you act quickly TODAY ONLY, you can get TWO for ONE tickets to see LA punk legends X play at the Market Showbox on Friday, April 10th (with Steve Soto & The Twisted Hearts and The Heels), for the 21 and over set, or the all ages show on Saturday, April 11 (with Visqueen and Steve Soto & The Twisted Hearts).

To take advantage of this fabulous deal, go to www.showboxonline.com, and enter the word "wildgift".

If you are feeling democratic, go to www.xtheband.com and vote for your favorite X song to be included on the setlist for the night you are planning. Perhaps this will help prevent what I like to refer to as the "Freebird Effect," where some drunken clown shouts the same request over and over, usually right in your ear.

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It was almost like a coffee shop setting and actually made the sold-out Showbox show feel somewhat intimate. Unlike most coffee-shop shows, though, the audience was rapt with attention.

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at The Showbox at the Market

An all-ages show to support and remember the legendary Seattle musician John Spalding.

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One girl in particular became so incredibly ecstatic she whirled around and made out with a young lady behind her. It was rad to see someone experience music so completely they lose their minds for a moment.

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Minus the Bear’s headlining homecoming show was a true testament to this band’s growth over the past couple months.

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