You know those bands that always seem to be there for you when your heart gets mangled? The band that gets your groove back in gear? For me, that's the Wedding Present.

The wonderful thing I've come to learn over the years? The Wedding Present is *that* band for a bunch of you too!

It's a strange and glorious fact that Bizarro, the Wedding Present's classic second studio album and the one that includes our favorites like "Brassneck" and "Kennedy" (to name a couple), will turn 21 years old this year. To celebrate, Gedge and company will be playing the album live, in its entirety, at concerts across North America, Japan and Europe (full tour shed-jule below). Obviously, those of us in Seattle are counting the days until April 21 when the Wedding Present is set to play the Crocodile.

We here at Three Imaginary Girls, especially me, want to mark the occasion here as well! Let's gather forces and geek out all Bizarro stylee!

Here's the idea: Send me a few sentences, a paragraph, or a story about a favorite song from the Bizarro album.  Tell us all about why the song (or songs - feel free to take on more than one!) rules or how it has affected you. It can be short, long, quirky, solemn, desirous, uplifting or clinical (i.e why the particular chord progression is magical).

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Maybe the problem here is that the Kings of Leon have been hanging out with too many tried-and-true rockers ...

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If you're the type of person who'd be embarrassed about owning The Essential John Denver, you could always point to song 15 on disc two and say "I just bought it for the Emmylou Harris song," as Emmylou has made it into the hipster cool country class.

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The Strokes seemingly redefined themselves and their sound while at the same time raising the stakes for any copycat hipster group — from NYC or anywhere else.

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Harmonies for the Haunted is technically their second major album, but the first where they got to spend oodles of money to record the disc. This might be its Achilles' Heel.

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The Head-of-the-Bull disc is all rock and roll, heavier than their past albums, the "Nirvana-meets-Sunny Day Real Estate" lineup actually taking a cue from their past bands and making more obvious their former monikers which, up until now, have been barely discernable.

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(I'm not going to tell them about Primal Scream… I'm not going to tell them about Primal Scream… I'm not going to tell them about Primal Scream…)

This is a review about Primal Scream.

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Cope's lyrical cadence is somewhere between folk and rap; his prose depicting visceral tales of desolation, desire and drug addiction.

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igChar got a moment to hang with Cope pre-show in his RV to talk about life on the road, his inspirations and the misconceptions people have about him.

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...it probably helps that the Hotnights are four young, cute girls, that they are from Sweden (which has been referred to as the 'new Seattle' in some quarters), that they play spiky, yet staggeringly melodic, upbeat punk-influenced rock.

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