Burn to Shine's forthcoming Emerald City edition is quintessentially us. Like the other houses featured in the previous three Burn to Shine installments, this house was destined to be destroyed... but not before some stunning musical performances by great local performers like Tiny Vipers, Eddie Vedder, and Burn to Shine curator Benjamin Gibbard.

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While Bumbershoot and the Capitol Hill Block Party have grown to astronomical (read as: huge touring bands) proportions, The Georgetown Music Festival is keeping it local as can be, with a preliminary lineup of loads of Seattle- (and a few Portland) based bands prepared to rock South Seattle this June 2-3.

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at High Dive

Local Seattle bands The Blakes, Hopscotch Boys, Vomiting Unicorns, Partman Parthorse, & Spook the Horse rocked the High Dive for the January 2007 KEXP Audioasis showcase.

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William Grant Burton's vocals are almost (but not quite) bat-cave-gothic in their suave, inimical implication: a little Julian Cope, a little Ian McCulloch, and a bit of Bryan Ferry sometimes, maybe.

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