Tonight in Seattle:  

Lykke Li

Lykke Li at the Showbox this Friday

The Swedish pop star Lykke Li will be playing at the Showbox at the Market on Friday.

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Best of 2008: Top 10 Albums from Pete Greenberg of Chop Suey

The top 10 albums "that made my head spin (in a good way)" from Chop Suey booker Pete Greenberg.

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Latest comment by: Alex: "Great list. I should have seen Frightened Rabbit last time they came through town"

Best of 2008: Top 10 Albums from Becca Minkoff of the Triple Door

I had asked some music-related friends to send me their best of 2008 lists with the promise that I'd post them here. The first to send their list in is Becca Minkoff, the lovely and brilliant assistant marketing director and 3D webmaster for The Triple Door.

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New Lykke Li video: Breaking It Up

One of my favorite iPod obsessions has a brand new video out for her song "Breaking It Up" and it is both fantastic and below.

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Latest comment by: Imaginary Kiku: "Good news! It's always best to invest your happiness in a solo artist for exactly this reason."

"Swedish Pop Girls Tour": Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar

Photos by Katy McCourt-Basham

at The Triple Door

El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li are two very different performers but they both played great, well-received sets. I wouldn’t have minded if the night went on forever.

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Where's the great pop song of the summer?

Where is the song that can slow down time and make us like the fact that Top 40 plays the same hits over and over?

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Latest comment by: Jon Harthun: "not to toot my own horn, but I soooooo called MIA being the "song of the summer"... "

Is it Sweden Week in Seattle?

Even with pop superstar Robyn deciding she'd rather spend time with Baba Wawa and Whoopi, we are still getting plenty of love from the Swedes.

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