I know the weather will be GORGEOUS this weekend, but maybe after the sun goes down y'all can get inside to see at least one of these?
' [...]Sure, maybe it's not a great adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel. Hell, it's not even that great of a movie – but it is a perfect time capsule of the 80s, from Jamie Gertz's high bangs to Andrew McCarthy's giant shoulder pads, its heavy-handed "drugs are bad" message and [...]
We have a pair of tickets to give away to a (very) lucky reader. The drill is that you need to send an e-mail to tig@threeimaginarygirls.com sometime prior to 9am on August 3rd with "FlamingLips" in the subject line. The winner will, of course, be notified shortly thereafter to give [...]
We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to one of the shows I am most looking forward to this fall: Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays playing together at the Moore. Tickets go on sale on Saturday morning, but if you're our lucky winner, you and a friend can go' [...]
Even though photographer extraordinaire William Anthony relocated from Seattle to So-Cal, he is still among our favorites. While he was in Seattle, he captured some of our finer moments as well as those of loves like Her Space Holiday.
It's no surprise then that his touching portfolio of shots taken outside [...]
The Pharmacy, a great punk dance punk band who recently moved to New Orleans at the beginning of the year, are returning to Seattle for two shows this weekend. They are playing at Vera on Friday night with a lineup that we might call "unfuckwithable": Schoolyard Heroes, Black Houses, The [...]
Seattle’s Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band’s songs are as amalgamous as the band itself. With heavy post-punk bass lines, Modest Mouse guitar lines, and Strokes-like drumming, MSHVB transcends all these things in the ways that they put them together. Using heavy drumming, keyboards and distorted guitar, and alternating loud and [...]
Came across this today and wanted to share – the 7th Annual Capitol Hill Independence Day Community Picnic is Saturday, July 4th from 12-5 at Cal Anderson Park (1635 11th Ave) and they’ve packed a lot of activity in this year. A performance from local Lo-fi Pop Duo Katharine Hepburn's' [...]
I don't know how it happened, but half the year officially is over! That means that we're half way to end of the year list time! I know that for a bunch of us, there are few things we love more than lists and mix tapes (I usually make a [...]
Seattle's Zera Marvel recently opened up for Tom Brosseau at the Tractor and I have to admit, if she wasn't so incredibly kind, I'd be quite jealous of her. Besides being quite stunning on stage, she belts out sultry sweetness taylored for sharing a stage with TomB.
Thanks to Victoria [...]
Yes, we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky fan for Pet Shop Boys' Pandemonium tour, which hits the Moore on Sunday, September 20. If you want to go (and trust me, you do) and would like the chance to go for free, send an e-mail' [...]
Over the last couple years, Tokyo's Tenniscoats and Glasgow's Pastels met up in the studio whenever Tenniscoats were in the Pastels' hometown for shows or holidays to (as the press release explains) "just to see what happens, and maybe to try to find out what it is that they have'" [...]
Last Thursday, Head Like A Kite had an open house of sorts at London Bridge Studio and invited some friends and imaginaries to come be part of the recording process. Of course we couldn't resist the invite and Jeanine Anderson was on hand to take some shots of the fun.
Nice' [...]
The folks at the Fretboard Journal are my heros. Issue after issue they pack each quarterly publication with beautiful pieces geared towards the smarty pants guitar geeks amongst us. Since I have yet to master anything with strings, reading the articles makes me feel like a fly on the wall [...]
Touring for their debut album, Rotting Slowly, released on K records this May; The Curious Mystery blends a multitude of textures. Some of their songs reveal a velvet lining, but most of the time they offer up a coarse belly for you to scratch. And much like a poorly groomed [...]
They're, if you couldn't tell by the name, a glam rock band - and they just filmed a movie. The description of the film, from the trailer's page on YouTube says:
If you thought Glam Rock died in the 1970s then let me introduce you to Glam Chops. Lead Singer Eddie [...]
If I believed in "guilty pleasures", I would have no problem saying The Veronicas were a guilty pleasure. But I don't; at least not during the eleven months of the year that Girl Scout Cookies aren't sold. Rather, we'll just have to say The Veronicas are a fine band who' [...]
The lovely Sonic Boom Records will expand and open it's brand spankin' new doors on Melrose between Pike and Pine this fall. At just about 3000 sq ft, they hope to host MANY more instore performances and live shows of all kinds.
And while you're at the new Boom, saunter over [...]
I'm almost positive none of you have any desire to see the sequel to the movie I most hated watching last year – and if for some reason you do, or you actually liked Transformers, I give you my response that always shuts everybody up once they start saying "It'" [...]
Photo by Bobb Lovett
The first time I heard about The Coathangers, a bad-ass, all girl band from Atlanta, was from music writer (for now?) Christopher Weingarten's 1000 Times Yes Twitter record review project (where he reviews a thousand records this year in 140 characters or less). His review described [...]
Looking for indie rock kicks on Saturday night? The Sunset Rubdown show at Chop Suey might just be the ticket.
Touring on the back-to-basics Dragonslayer, this show promises to be phenomenal. The combination of the intimate space of Chop Suey and the richness and intensity of Spencer Krugs' vocals seem to' [...]
There are visuals of heartbroken fans all over the telly and an avalanche "news" messages reported via the radio and the twitterverse. Today I am going to try to take in all the mourning rituals marking the passing Michael Jackson before the wave of speculation about pre-mortem weirdness and drug [...]
I have had a very long love affair with Portland's psych-pop keyboard fuzz pedal freaks Quasi. I first purchased their 1999 Up Records release Field Studies in my freshman year of high school and quickly fell in love with its dirty as hell sounding guitars and keyboards, mixed with Janet [...]
I've got nothing against a fun romantic comedy, but the thought of watching Confessions of a Shopaholic makes me all twinge-y. Well, maybe not as twinge-y as The Pink Panther 2 (Hi Steve Martin! I used to love you!).
Fortunately, they released a ton of DVDs this Tuesday, and there are' [...]
A little late on the uptake, but if you're looking for something to fill your unemployed, or otherwise bored-stiff, time there a couple of really great shows happening this week!
I covered all of this over at KEXP for their weekly Three Imaginary Girls column, and while the Kid's Dance Party' [...]
I was going to wait until it got a little closer to the event before mentioning the Doe Bay Music Festival here but I hear that tickets are selling very fast and would hate for it to sell out before any of our readers heard about this great event. As [...]
I got wind of this through various sources on Twitter today – NY Post’s POPWRAP has a preview of Tim Burton’s latest: Alice in Wonderland.
These pics prove once again that Burton can’t resist turning brunettes into platinum blondes (Hitchcock, much???), making Johnny Depp look as terrifying as possible, and sticking [...]
White Rabbits play tonight at the Crocodile in support of of their second full length, It's Frightening, notably produced by singer/guitarist Britt Daniel of Spoon.
The Brooklyn sextet (two drummers, yes!) have been around the block, touring with bands like The Walkmen and Spoon after the success of their debut, Fort [...]
I can’t even pretend to recommend the newest Sandra Bullock disaster, no matter how much I love Ryan Reynold’s body. Nor can I point you to Year One, despite my undying devotion to Michael Cera.
That said, there is one mainstream(ish) flick playing this weekend that has my interest: The Sam [...]
Just when you thought SIFF '09 was over and done, SIFF Cinema is presenting a three-day, 13-program selection of award winners and audience favorites this weekend. SIFFed out as I still am, I'm actually kinda glad, especially having missed Grand Jury Prize winners talhotblond and The Other Bank.
Anything you missed [...]
Even though there is so much goodness oozing from the Los Campesinos! blog on a nearly daily basis, I've tried to show some restraint so that I don't wear you out with my regurgitation of witty campesino-isms as posted on their blog since I discovered it months and months ago.
Sure, [...]
Just last weekend I was interviewing Art Brut's Eddie Argos and we were talking about the band working with Pixies frontman Frank Black, who produced Art Brut's excellent album Art Brut vs. Satan. In the interview, Argos recommended I check out Black's project with his wife, Grand Duchy, who just [...]
The Helio Sequence returns to the Northwest from six weeks of touring in time to help Neumos celebrate their 5 year birthday and joining them will be The Helio Sequence, Grand Hallway, and Palmer Electric Co. The show on Thursday, June 19th is free with a purchase of a drink [...]
If you're like me -- in that you have a munchkin at home -- you know how hard it can be to rally and get out to a club. Thankfully, salvation comes for us parental folk with a hankering for rock venues this Sunday, when KEXP hosts its Fourth Annual' [...]
That subject line appeared in my inbox and I nearly wet myself. I've talked lots about how much I love The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (and I'm going to be out of town for the CHBP).
However, there's no Seattle date announced yet (though, there's a mysterious gap between [...]
Canadian songstress Julie Doiron (ex Eric's Trip) returns to Seattle tonight for what I'm sure will be a wonderful performance at the Tractor tonight! Her newest album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, has been kicking my ass lately, especially the fabulous song "Consolation Prize" (thanks, Stereogum' [...]
Well, it's about time, and I was delighted as the official news landed in my inbox this afternoon! Denton, TX's Fishboy officially have a brand new EP coming out August 18th!
The songs off the new EP, Nom, were originally written for 2007's brilliant Albatross: How We Failed to Save the [...]
This weekend was absolutely bonkers for shows! Noise for the Needy rocked all over Seattle, Shellac played two nights at the Vera Project (I saw them Thursday night and it was pretty killer), SIFF finished off with tons and tons of films, and I caught the Lemonheads at the Tractor [...]
Thanks to Hot Avocados Photography (imaginary victoria!) for this sweet Sean Nelson moment she recently caught. It's kinda a tear jerker in light of the recent news that Harvey Danger is calling it quits. But, on the sweeter side of things, Sean celebrated is birthday just last Friday (happiest of [...]
If you remember reading about Seattle's own Shane Curry in the Stranger last year, you may be wondering where this Band of the Week has been all this time. Well, the answer is, off making incredible new music.Mr. Shane "Brown Eyes" Curry
Mr. Curry is back with a new band, The [...]
This may be a little early. And I'm definitely too excited about this. But, Beach House, The Cave Singers first mp3 for their album coming out this August, is up on Matador's website. Ever since I heard some of their new songs live at Neumos in February, I've been craving [...]
We've got a pair of tickets for someone lucky and a friend to catch an awesome all ages show at Neumo's on Tuesday, June 23rd with Cursive and local kids Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. School's out! Go rock out!
Just e-mail us at tig@threeimaginarygirls.com with the subject line "MtStCursive" by' [...]
Guess what? Wow, how’d you know? Another killer band from Canada is on the radar and playing Neumos tonight for Noise For The Needy. The Constantines, from Ontario, have been making rock n’ roll spin on it’s top since 1999. Believe it or not, that was ten years ago. Living [...]
All parts Oregon, Point Juncture, WA is going to rock you. Slowly. In their collectively cradled arms. And when they do, you should look at the calluses on their hands and be thankful that someone out there is working hard to provide for you. They released Heart To Elk in [...]
Hey kids, do you like sleazy little mustaches, argyle vests, and lyrics followed by exclamation points? Do you like songs about erectile dysfunction, alcoholism, and modern art? Does Eddie Argos make you want to rock out (AAAAAAAAAAGH!)?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions, come check out Art [...]
Grand Archives, a group of veteran indie rockers, is touring for the upcoming release of their second full-length album, Keep In Mind Frankenstein, due out September 15th. That’s the day before my birthday. I’ll think of it as Mat Brooke’s (Band of Horses) present to me.
If you’re enamored with the [...]
Prepare to have your everything rocked every which way but with Clint Eastwood and an orangutan who plays the keytar.
Part of the Noise for the Needy benefit, this particular show features some of the coolest and noisiest bands in the Emerald City!
The show takes place Friday, 6/12 at the [...]
Tonight is the second night of this year's Noise for the Needy festival and tonight's trifecta of shows is a great assortment of Seattle bands with some out of towners thrown in for extra buzz.
I'm particularly excited to see the Sunset Tavern show with Adam Stephens and the Finite Plain' [...]
Other bands went and other bands came, and we still can't get over Art Brut. Luckily, they're coming back to Seattle this Saturday, June 13th at Neumo's as a part of the Noise for the Needy festival! And, to sweeten the punch even more, we have tickets to give away! [...]
I love folks when great music taste and extra time futz around with iMovie. Thank you fanella55! You did a great job putting one of my favorite Fishboy songs ("Proper Name Spelling Bee") to digital video.
I recently saw someone do this sort of thing with a Tullycraft song; OldFlat24 set [...]
This year's Noise for the Needy festival starts tonight! We're so excited for the five day fest. The organizers have really put together a slew of great bills from now until Sunday.
Tonight's batch of shows kick off the festivities with a bang. I have a hard time choosing between tonight's [...]
The generous folks at SIFF have given us 3 pairs of tickets to see Rain this Saturday, June 13 at SIFF Cinema, 7pm.
Sounds great, non? Director Maria Govan is expected to attend the screening too. If you want a pair, the drill is thus: email me (lulafortune at g [...]
If you've been in any local Seattle record store lately, you've undoubtedly seen (and possibly listened to) the fabulous new release from this creative duo, A Woman a Man Walked By.
If you've somehow missed the listening station, or if you have been grooving to this great album at home for' [...]
Already released on cassette tape and CD, Rainwater Cassette Exchange came out in May of 2009 and is Deerhunter's most recent release. According to Kranky's website the vinyl version should be available by now. But my local record store manager tells me they're releasing it in the next few weeks.
I' [...]
Last night I saw the film (500) Days of Summer at SIFF - it's a romcom starring Zooey Deschanel and it's pretty cute but the film got on my good side immediately when they played the song "Us" by Regina Spektor over the title sequence. That made me think of [...]
My Suicide features music from Rocky Votolato on its soundtrack (and I hear that he will be at the screening, along with the film's director, David Lee Miller). The film screens on Wednesday, June 10 at 9:30pm at Pacific Place. If you want to see My Suicide at SIFF, just [...]
A Camp's sound is lush, gorgeous and delicate. I will surely be at the Croc on Thursday and so should you. All you need to do is send an e-mail to tig@threeimaginarygirls.com with "ACampA" in the subject line before Wednesday morning at 9am and you have a great chance of [...]
jens lekman
WOW -- this weekend (which this time we'll say started on Thursday because Thursday was *so* packed with options) will probably be voted "most packed with possibilities ever!" in this summer's yearbook.
Did anyone do a Jens Lekman double shot -- attending both Thursday and Friday? Neko Case? Metric? Camera' [...]
Sweden's Love Is All return to Seattle tonight, with indie pop party band Still Flyin (who I caught in San Francisco a few weekends ago) for a delicious indie pop dance party at Neumo's.
Last time I caught Love Is All, I really enjoyed them. To celebrate the indie pop wonders' [...]
One of the things I love about being part of the TIG family, however long-distance, is that I get to peek into a scene I wouldn't normally be exposed to living down here in LA. But I often forget that it's a 2-way road, and there are plenty of LA' [...]
I just returned home from a friend's birthday party. (Happy Birthday, Flyn!) I hopped on my computer, so I could waste some time on the internet. The first thing I see when I checked my Facebook was an acquaintence's post about the incredibly untimely demise of one of my very [...]
The Prodigy @ Wamu Theater 5.30.09
Jeanine Anderson recently caught the Prodigy at the WaMu Theater (they were in town with the Crystal Method). Looks pretty intense!
Want to see more live show shots (or have your own to add) taken around Seattle? Head over to our Sparkly Indie Pop Flickr Photo [...]
As I’m sure everyone knows by now, I am completely in love with the film True Adolescents, and I also think Director Craig Johnson and Producer Tom Woodrow are totally cool. How cool are they, you ask? They are so cool, Furnace Films is hosting a rock show/party at The [...]
Ahh, the power of Twitter. I've been SIFF'ing for almost 2 weeks now, and I’ve seen that iSIFF ad from POP several times, so the song (what you doin now/I want to be there) gets stuck in my head on a regular basis. The problem? I only knew those 2 [...]
“This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham” said Woody Allen in Bananas in a courtroom scene that, unlike anything seen in The Whole Truth, was funny. It could also describe this [...]
