Tonight in Seattle:  

Yeasayer

Photos: Capitol Hill Block Party Friday

at Capitol Hill Block Party 2010

Photos from Capitol Hill Block Party 2010. You know the deal. Let us know what shows you have seen and what you liked in the comments!

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Latest comment by: bobby mchugh: "

I did about the same, but while watching X-Files season one on Netflix with some PBR! HA HA. 

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Yeasayer at Neumos

at Neumos

Photo by Lori Paulson

When Yeasayer finally took the stage at Neumos last Tuesday night, it was after anticipation had been building for several weeks. The show was sold out weeks in advance and on Twitter, Neumos said their guestlist was completely full. One person went so far as to offer to bake a cake in exchange for a ticket (an offer I would have gladly taken them up on had I known I had an extra ticket earlier than the same morning of the show). In short, a lot of people wanted to go to this show and they would have likely sold out a much larger club.

It’s not enough, though, to say that people wanted to see Yeasayer as we’ve seen the hype machine get way out of hand in a lot of cases. Yeasayer, though, lived up to the expectations of their show Tuesday night.

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Free tickets to Sasquatch: How big is your stomach?

I don't know a lot of details as to how an event of this magnitude will go down, but I do know that there are some free tickets at play, most likely for lucky guy or gal who can funnel massive amounts of sugar and pastry down their gullets at an incredible rate.

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Latest comment by: andrew mckirdy: "Will there be another Eating Contest this year? Where and when and I will be there. Sasquatch 2009 is coming soon and I need tickets! # 44 IFOCE Professional Eater Andrew McKirdy"

KEXP Yule Benefit: stick to the local brews

Feral Children. Photos by Rustee Pace

at Showbox at the Market

Screaming, thrashy energy poured out of the local band as they beat on a beer keg for added percussion...

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Latest comment by: dust: "my impressions: the valley were pretty generic and stooges-y, nothing too fantastic. feral children drew me in with their shoddy looseness, dead confederate sounded verrry 1994/95 at times and i will have to put yeasayer with the growing number of groups that are ...