Tonight, everybody's favorite local chanteuse Jesse Sykes plays a free KEXP show at Seattle Center's Mural Ampitheater, featuring music from her new EP Gentleness of Nothing. (Tomorrow night, Rocky Votolato plays the Mural.) Tomorrow, the Mountain's Music Festival at Marymoor with Brandi Carlile, Jackie Greene, and Train's Pat Monahan. The less said about the latter, the better. Here's our gal Brandi performing "The Story," her Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack hit: And Seattlest's old friend Steve Winwood......

HIPPIES UNITE: Innovative guitarist/singer/songwriter Keller Williams is a mainstay on the jamfolk scene and, much like Yonder Mountain Stringband (also on the bill tonight), is responsible for inspiring throngs of hippies to bounce and twirl. We've never caught him live, but we understand he puts on quite the show. He'll be at Marymoor tonight, blowing some minds. 7 p.m. // Marymoor Park // $29.50 IT TOOK A LOT OF MONEY TO START MY HEART: If......

Road trip! The seventh annual What the Heck Fest is taking place all weekend at venues in Anacortes. Mt. Eerie is but one of the many bands set to perform. If you're staying here in town, tonight loud-ass two-piece Middle Class Rut plays King Cobra, along with Burning Brides.......

If you're planning on hitting up Sub Pop's three-day 20th anniversary celebration, you best be getting those tickets now. Friday's comedy extravaganza at the Moore (featuring funnymen David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, and Todd Barry) just sold out, and tix to Saturday's event at Marymoor Park are long gone. That leaves you with two options for Sub Pop-related revelry this weekend: the Gutter Twins and Brothers of the Sonic Cloth at the Showbox Saturday......

While the other end of Marymoor Park was packed with campers, the Velodrome hosted two biking events on Saturday: The Flying Wheels Century and the Little 100. A 100-mile bike race is plenty interesting, but Seattlest was immediately drawn to the Little 100. A cruiser bike relay race consisting of co-ed teams in costume? We. Are. Down. Team Cerveza Libre were beaten off the starting line by some eager cowboys and pushy businessmen. (That's......

It may not feel like summer in Seattle, but tomorrow afternoon is The End's Summer Camp II at Marymoor Park. It's a mix of the good (Nada Surf, MGMT), the bad (Flogging Molly, Pennywise), and the emo-ey (Armor for Sleep). Meanwhile, all weekend long Noise for the Needy marches on, raising money for Urban Rest Stop. Come tomorrow night, it's Matt and Kim, YACHT, and local band Feral Children at Neumo's. Here's a clip of......

Remember how we said that ZooTunes was going to be kicking this summer? Well, Marymoor is kicking harder, at least initially. It's kicking off with a big double sucker-punch to the Zoo: Erykah Badu and The Roots. On the same night: June 5. And then it'll kind of fizz out. Okay, so aside from three or four other artists making an appearance at the ginormous Eastside park (ahem—Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, Blackalicious, ...perhaps the......

Corteo is one of the most dynamic and creative artistic exploits of body movement that you can see in the United States. You can still buy tickets here and performances continue until May 4 at Marymoor Park in Redmond. In our interview with Alison Crawford, Corteo senior artistic director, we asked her to share her favorite Corteo scene. If we had been asked the same question, our answer would be, without a doubt, the......

Cirque Du Soleil presents Corteo under the blue and yellow big top at Marymoor Park in Redmond beginning Thursday, April 24. Corteo has captivated fans on nearly every continent, so we asked Alison Crawford, Corteo senior artistic director, to share a few secrets about what makes the show tick. Corteo is a story about a clown’s funeral, but it is also a celebration of life, Crawford said. "Everything from the set, costumes and make-up resemble......

We clued you in to this last October, but now it's official: Sub Pop Records is celebrating its 20-year existence with a three-day comedy and music festival July 11-13. And the (initial) lineup, though weighted more heavily in the hipster-ish now, features a few super acts from the label's big then. Per yesterday's press release: The SP20 activities will commence with a comedy show on July 11 at The Moore Theatre. Among the performing......

Personally, this Seattlest is stoked to see Wilco back together, making the rounds, bringing their folk-rock/alt.country stylings to the people once again. They've certainly had their fair share of band drama, but the band can still rock. We caught Jeff Tweedy solo down in Lyons, Colo., last summer at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and thoroughly enjoyed his solo set. So it is with quite a bit of fanfare that we are happy to announce......

This is a big weekend due to the Esurance® Capitol Hill Block Party alone. Tickets are not sold out yet; if nothing else, just by 'em at the door. But what to do if you want to avoid the Hill and the confluence of all those hipsters? Tonight, there's Ryan Adams at the Moore. He's no longer the junkie hot mess he used to be, so this time around he probably won't go nutso if......

Allison Krauss and Union Station are at Marymoor Park on Saturday. There was a lot of moaning and gnashing of teeth from the Seattlest camp when the Summer Nights concert series was canceled, but Marymoor seems to have picked up a lot of that slack with a decent series. Here's Allison Krauss and Union Station back when they were called Union Station and Allison Krauss. If you liked that you probably should have gone to......

Occidental Square has always been kind of awesome and uniquely Seattle, to this writer at least. It's walled in yet open, yet cluttered, yet ordered. There's a distinctive sense of wood, but the predominant building material is stone or brick. There are no people, but there are trees! Have you ever been to a square in Europe? They're great in their own quaint little way, but they're somewhat of a celebration of treelessness. "Hell yeah......

Q: What's better than a night in Seattle, having some drinks, and listening to some live music? A: A night in Seattle, having some drinks, and listening to live music that doesn't blow ass. Tuesday 15th >>> The French Kicks at Neumo's. What's post post-rock? Pop, it turns out! However, few bands have been hated on more for missing their scene's success then these scenesters. 8pm, $12 Wednesday 16th >>> Seattle Secret Music Showcase......

Now that it officially feels like spring, it's time to start thinking about summer, and more specifically, the summer concert season. While the Bumbershoot lineup has been partially announced, and Sasquatch is right around the corner, there's a whole bunch of big shows going on sale this weekend. Cast your eyes upon their collective majesty: INXS tickets for their June 3rd show went on sale earlier today. Yes, it's a US Bank-sponsored Concert at Marymoor......

Seattlest recognizes that humans are strangely drawn to track sports: horses, chariots, cars, hell even skinny little dogs chasing fake bunnies. We recommend that you suspend your worrying about the NASCAR drama, and instead visit the only velodrome in the state of Washington to satiate your desire to watch the same thing over and over again. The Group Health Velodrome in Marymoor Park offers the chance to chase a bunch of other fit people, all......

If you're a liberal, a Democrat, left-leaning, a new media person, an old media person, a fundraiser, a grassroots organizer, or a blogger or any combination of those you probably already know that some of the cool kids are in town this weekend and have plans to catch them in concert at least once. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD are going to be kicking around Seattle and the area......

I volunteered to dogsit this weekend, and I'd like to do more than just drop in and let the pooch out to pee. What are some good off-leash areas in and around Seattle? Seattlest applauds your impulse; there's nothing happier than a tired dog. The first thing to consider is how well you know the dog: Have you seen it interact with other dogs? Does it respond to your commands? It's flirting with disaster......