{Thee Emergency will be at the High Dive on Friday, September 3 with Macklemore, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground, Sol, and Curtains For You.}

"Cracka Slang" was the song you may have heard U District-based female-led psych-soul rock band Thee Emergency perform in MTV's $5 Cover Seattle, looking as sizzlingly stylish and sweaty as hell as on a great night at a small club as they always are -- and if you haven't seen Lynn Shelton's band documentary yet, go do that somehow.

Meanwhile, you've probably been wondering what Zana "Dita Vox" Geddes, Matt "Sonic Smith" Bracher, Tom "T. Drummer," and the rest of the band has been up to since their terse debut Can You Dig It? and psychotically expansive sophomore Solid swayed heads and music junkies since they gummed up and acid-overheated CD players all over the region for the past couple years.

I have The Answer: A 12" piece of golden vinyl (yes, color gold) with a download for whatever electronic device you use to not play your damned vinyl, fool. And it too is called Cracka Slang. And it is one of my albums of the year.

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"Solid" is a plush red velvet cave of Dr. Sound's Fender Rhodes woven by fingers that sound as if they grew up jamming along to Tex-Mex psych classics.

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