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When artists quickly reach success, like becoming the number one band in the UK with a debut album (White Lies), there's a need to take a step back from the buzz and ask yourself how much of their success is based on industry hype versus talent. It's a chicken and egg sort of scenario really - are they popular because they are successful, or vice versa? I pondered this as I noticed the highly acclaimed NME Tour selling out shows from New York to Chicago, and wasn't exactly sure what to expect on Tuesday night when they reached Seattle.

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Friendly Fires are cleaning up in the New Order-y, bass-driven alt rock... and that's just what we need here in Seattle on this lovely Tuesday to kick our pants into Wednesday. Their song "On Board" has been Feist-ed by the Wii Fit commercial which is completely fair since folks love the Wii as much as they love yoga, lattes and pizza. We're only human after all.

And if you were looking for something else (the Headlights show at Nectar will be really good show as well)...check out one of these fine events as listed on TIG's show calendar.

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Critic (and undergrounder MTV) darlings, Friendly Fires and White Lies are going to be at Neumo's on Tuesday, April 7th (with The Soft Pack) and we're excited to have a pair of tickets to give away.

To enter to win the tickets, email us at tig @ three imaginary girls.com with your name and the subject line "FriendlyLiesTix" by Monday, April 6th at noon PST.

If you want to hear a bit more, Friendly Fires recently had friends Air France remix their hit "Skeleton Boy" and you can go download it for free here. Or just dance along to this video of the original version.

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NME has released a list of what it thinks the Next Big Things of 2008 and well, it is quite a list. Sure, its very UK-centric, but judge for yourself...

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