OMG! Setlist this week is so bomb-diddly-awesome that it breaks Ari and Megan’s hearts to only be able to share the experience of listening to it. Why is it so freaking awesome? Because we have a guest, the world’s most perfect human being: Eli Anderson!

Eli is the assistant booker at Crocodile Cafe, and on this week’s Setlist he picks the bands and tells you what you have to do to get a show at the Croc (synopsis: don’t be a jerk). Tune in to listen to Ari and Megan swoon and let someone else do some of the talking for once.

Some of the bands Eli picked that you will enjoy listening to:
The Quiet Ones
The Moondoggies
Tall Birds
Fleet Foxes
Siberian
Throw Me the Statue

and much, much more (we mean it!).
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Listen in as The Stranger’s music staff—Jonathan Zwickel, Eric Grandy, Megan Seling, and Ari Spool—discuss their picks for Bumbershoot (and, of course, talk about Fergie and her urination).

You’ll hear music by Art Brut, the Whore Moans, the Avett Brothers, and many more.

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Did you know that Megan and Ari are capable of feeling old? Or that Megan has never seen the most important movie in the entire canon of comedic music films?

Do you want to win a copy of the Blakes’ new EP, Streets? Wanna listen to some sweet songs by local bands Blicky, Love Battery, Boat, the Apple War, the Green Pajamas, and the Scheme?

All this and so much more is on this week’s Setlist podcast.
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Remember, e-mail setlist@thestranger.com with your feelings, gripes, and general malaise.

Ari says this is the weirdest show we’ve ever done. Is she right? Click here to find out.

Here’s what you’ll hear:
The Little Ones - “Cha Cha Cha”
Bang the Mantra - “Endless Wanting”
The Dimes - “Forget Me”
Paris Spleen - “My Bedroom”
Sunday Night Blackout - “The Succubus”
Penetration Camp - “The Shiner”
Upwell - “Lotus”
Open Choir Fire - “Things We Have to Do”

Hey look, it’s the Dimes!

Look at this crazy line up for Setlist this week! We throw you all some curveballs with songs from…
Lama
Open Choir Fire
The Pale Pacific
Claymore
The Starlings
Iamthethorn
Blicky
Bad Dream Good Breakfast
and Branden Daniels & Everybody Gets Laid, our band of the week!

Remember, if you want your band to get played on Setlist, set up a Stranger Bands Page for your band at http://www.thestranger.com/bands. In the meantime, give these bad boys a listen!
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You can e-mail Megan and Ari, the hosts of this program, at setlist@thestranger.com. Thanks for listening!

This week join us as Megan and Ari bring the local rock straight to your computer, and from there into your ears.
This episode’s bands include:
Hollywood Lightweights
Police Teeth
The Maldives
The Lonely Forest
and more!

Remember, you can get a chance to be played on Setlist by setting up a band page at www.thestranger.com/bands, and you can send Ari and Megan an e-mail with a request or a haiku at setlist[at]thestranger.com. Thanks for listening!
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This week on Setlist:

It’s the Capitol Hill Block Party Episode!
Listen to bands playing the Block Party.

Speaker Speaker - “Loveland, CO”
Grynch - “Soft Rains”
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head - “Beard Lust”
PWRFL Power - “It’s Okay”
Boat - “I’m a Donkey for Your Love”
Gabriel Teodros - “Chili Sauce”
Sunday Night Blackout - “The Succubus”
The Moondoggies - “Keep Her On the Line”

This week on Setlist:

Paper Dolls - “Maybe Never”
K. Garrard - “Resonate”
The Apple War - “Organ Song”
Braden Daniel & Everybody Gets Laid - “Lay Low”
Lund Bros. - “Paybacks”
Priests and Paramedics - “The Paces You Keep Me In”
Hey Marseilles - “To Tavels and Trunks”
Hungry Pines - “Blood Eagle”

Also: Win tickets to the Capitol Hill Block Party!

^{Priests and Paramedics}

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Listen to local bands playing Seattle this week.

Setlist! Yes!

Here’s what you’ll hear:

Half Acre Day-“Dead Man’s Hill”
Biography of Ferns- “The Charmer”
Last Slice of Butter-“Lumberjack”
Novy Mir-“What the Hell’s Going On”
Patience Please-“Unpublished”
Tea Cozies-“Stir the Cup”
In Caves-“Tomato”
1-2-1-2-“Firm Eye Flex”
Black Bear-“In the Arboretum”

Also, win tickets to the Capitol Hill Block Party! Listen to find out how.

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Join Megan and Ari as they listen to local bands that are playing shows this week. Also, learn how you can win tickets to Fresh Fest ‘07 featuring Beyond Reality, Gabriel Teodros, Dyme Def, and Piece. The whole show is hosted by Choklate and it’s all ages, so anyone can enter the contest. You have to enter by Monday, July 2, so make sure to listen to the podcast now to find out how to enter!

Here’s the bands those weird, weird ladies play this week:
Grynch—That’s Hip Hop
The Divorce—Yes
Abyssinian Creole—Southside
Greenriver Thrillers—Sweat Stash
Mulally—First Glance, Best Chance
The Capillaries—Why Should I?
The Levitations—Get Your Feet off the Ground
Library Science (this week’s Band of the Week)—Key Note Speaker
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Setlist!

They playlist goes like this:
Vindaloo - “Electromatik Lunatik Dance”
Open Choir Fire - “Candle”
Fort Hell - “Sister”
Tall Birds - “The Sky is Falling”
The Fucking Eagles - “Baby, I’m Coming Home”
Lucy Bland - “Streaker”
Mono in VCF - “Spider Rotation”
Pwrfl Power - I forget the name of the song… Sorry.

Also! You’re gonna wanna listen to the whole goddamn show because somewhere in there we give you the scoop on how to win FREE tickets to the upcoming Divorce shows at the Crocodile (on June 30). The band’s breaking up, it’ll be their last show ever, and you don’t wanna miss it. Listen, enter, win.

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And now, here’s a picture of Lucy Bland:

Setlist! Hooray!

This week we play all eight Block Star finalists—the eight bands chosen straight from The Stranger’s Bands Page to compete for a slot on the Capitol Hill Block Party’s mainstage, as well as a bunch of other swag like a Verizon phone, a rehearsal PA, and a song featured in a national Esurance commercial. Sweet, right? Yeah, we know.

Here’s who you’ll hear:

Grynch - “That’s Hip Hop”
Lonely Forest - “Idiocy”
Neezie Pleaze - “Consecutive Heat”
Optimus Rhyme - “Train in Vain”
Pwrfl Power - “Tomato Song”
Skullbot - “Lookout”
Speaker Speaker - “We Won’t March”
The Sutures - “Oh So Wrong”

So click. Listen. Ari Spool was drinking Wired while recording, so girl’s hilariously hyper.

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Ok, nerds. Here’s the new Setlist. In it, we talk about the Noise for the Needy Festival, squaredancing, and men in their underwear. It’s pretty rad! Here’s the track list!

HEAD LIKE A KITE - CIRCUS KITE
PLEASUREBOATERS - ELLIPTICAL REALISM
GHOST STORIES - THE LOWER FIVE
PRETTY GIRLS MAKES GRAVES - ALL MEDICATED GENIUSES
DEVOIRS - BLIND
THE TALLBOYS - TRACK 2
PARTMAN PARTHORSE - HEMORRHAGE

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This week Ari Spool and Megan Seling give love and attention to this weekend’s Georgetown Music Fest. Featuring over 40 bands in two days, the festival is highlighting some great talent in the city, so we wanted to give y’all a taste of what you’ll hear.

Playlist goes like this:

The Kindness Kind - “Midnight Flights”
Hungry Pines - “Blood Eagle”
The Sea Navy - Arctic Advice
Phobophobe - “High Treason”
Skullbot - “Lookout”
Patient Patient - “Without Arms”
Open Choir Fire - “Things You H” (Yeah, we dunno what the H stands for either…)
The Lonely Forest - “Stars and Moons”
Tart - “California”
White Nights - “Shore Song”

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This is a picture of Open Choir Fire… hiiii-YA!

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Why should you listen to Setlist? Because this week’s episode features the following music, handpicked by Megan Seling and Ari Spool (which means it’s good):

Siberian- “Airship”
Tiny Vipers - “They Might Follow You”
The Valkries - “Lie Down and Die”
The Intelligence - “Telephone Wires”
Joy Wants Eternity - “Above the Clouds Lies Eternal Sun”
Skeletons With Flesh On Them - “Neon Lights of Reno”
80:20 - “Prussian Blue”
Devoirs - “Ssss”
Pufferfish - “Break Drum”

Click. Listen. Don’t miss out.

And what else do we talk about this week? Cute indie rockers, misleading band names, shows you shouldn’t miss, and birthdays (Ari’s is June 2; she wants an iPod).

This is a picture of Skeletons with Flesh on Them. And FYI, they are not a crust band.

Ari Spool and Megan Seling hilariously (okay, maybe not hilariously) dissect some of the best acts The Stranger’s Bands Page has to offer. We also talk about Everclear (the band, not the alcohol), cocaine (the drug, not the energy drink), and all of this week’s notable shows.

Here’s the playlist:
Velella Vellela: “Hey Cuz”
Stay Tuned: “Dukes”
Skullbot: “Lookout”
The Vomiting Unicorn: “White Rabbit”
Jacob London: “Interest Rates Just Fell Again”
Wormwood: “Descendant”
Lake of Falcons: “Pretty Little Knife”
Paris Spleen: “The Gesture”
Sleepy Eyes of Death: “Eyes Wide Open”

Thanks for listening! And apologies for the fact that Ari starts singing Creed.

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Not a Creed Cover Band

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This week Megan brings on Ari Spool for a very special challenge to the KISW Rock Girls.

This week’s podcast includes music from:

The Young Sportsmen - “The Rocks and the Stars”
Everyday Car Crash - “The Accident”
Police Teeth - “Motherfuckers Move Slow”
Bloodclots - “Outrage”
3 Way Switch - “Away”
Tiny Vipers - “Shipwreck”
The Bismarck - “Cock of the Fleet”
Smile Brigade - “Dear John”
Iceage Cobra - “We Gotta Move”

Sweet right? Right. And if you’re in a band, be sure to get your music posted at www.thestranger.com/bands, so I can feature you on an upcoming show. As always, e-mail me at megan@thestranger.com if you have something you want me to hear. I especially like loud things.

Thanks for listening this week!

This is a picture of Police Teeth.

Setlist! Hooray! This week’s show features music from some great local acts plucked straight from The Stranger’s Bands Page (www.thestranger.com/bands).

Who’s who you’ll hear:

1-2-1-2 - “The Wiz”
The Hacks - “Dirt in My Eyes”
Iceage Cobra - “We Gotta Move”
Paper Dolls - “Maybe Never”
Shorthand for Epic - “End Times”
Uglyhead - “Birds Eating Turtles”
The Divorce - “Yes”
Paris Spleen - “The Gesture”
Burdfur is Green Feathers - “Take It to the Head”

Awesome, right? That Iceage Cobra track is especially great—don’t miss it.

And if you’re in a band, head on over to the Bands Page to add your own music. I like to keep things diverse on Setlist, so I’m always looking for new music to check out and play.

Thanks for listening!

Iceage Cobra. They are good. They’re playing Saturday, April 7 at Atlas Clothing & Music.

Welcome to another installment of Setlist, where I get to pretend I’m the radio DJ I always wanted to be (you can thank Pump Up the Volume for that… or blame it, either way).

This week’s playlist of local luminaries includes, well… to be honest, I threw away the playlist before I remembered to post this, so I can’t remember the complete order. But there are songs by the Blakes, Smile Brigade, the Sea Navy, the Capillaries, and Jacob London. There’re more, but I was drunk when I recorded it, so I can’t remember exactly who they were. Okay—that’s a lie. I was completely sober. But I still can’t remember. Just listen, see who all made the cut this week, and be sure to add your own music at http://www.thestranger.com/bands so you can maybe be a Setlist superstar in the future.

Thanks for listening, and I love you all.

Setlist! Awesome! This week’s show features some new never-before-played tunes and a few old Setlist favorites.

Bad Dream Good Breakfast - “The Urgency of Nightlife and the Temptations That Come of It”
Petals Like Bricks - “Drums Song”
Hypatia Lake - “Fishes vs. Lines”
The Kindness Kind - “Midnight Flights”
Neon Brown - “His Knees Are Rubber”
Safer - “All Around You”
Spanish for 100 - “Go Away Come Home”
The Breakers - “Please Clarify”
Bronze Fawn - “Ten is the New Five”

E-mail me at megan@thestranger.com and let me know what you think. Or better yet, if you’re in a band, add your music to our website so you can be featured on an upcoming show. C’mon, duder, you know you want to. Just log on to www.thestranger.com/bands—it’s absolutely free.

Thanks for listening!

Petals Like Bricks

This week you can hear songs from the Prime Time Nine, the nine local bands we feature in our Musician’s Resource Directory. We handpicked exciting up-and-coming artists from the Stranger’s Bands Page, and there’s some pretty wicked talent.

Here’s the playlist:

Lake of Falcons - “Pretty Little Knife”
The Quiet Ones - “Missing the Party”
Joy Wants Eternity - “For We Had No Road”
1-2-1-2 - “The Wiz”
Black Bear - “I Believe in Immediacy”
Dirty Scientifix - “Stop Look Listen”
Sleepy Eyes of Death - “Eyes Spliced Open”
Bird Show of North America - “Great Horned Owl”
Ghost Stories - “The Lower Five”

E-mail me at megan@thestranger.com and let me know what you think. Or better yet, if you’re in a band, add your music to our website so you can be featured on an upcoming show. Thanks for listening!

Listen to some music from great local bands playing this week.

Common Market: Track 14
Tiny Vipers: “They Might Follow You”
Hart and the Hurricane: “Hard Times”
Autolite Strike: “How it Goes”
Pleasurecraft: “I Need You”
High Page Delay: “Snow Day”
Dyslexic 33: “She Must Be Gay”
The Senate Arcade: “Problems”
Man Plus: “Sister Says I’ll Love Again”

Want to get on this show? Post some songs at thestranger.com/bands.

Here’s what’s cooking on Setlist this week.

1. The Presidents of the United States of America: “Poke and Destroy”
2. “Awesome”: “Are you Aware”
3. Library Science: “Blossom to Branch”
4. Missing Players: “Drown While I Sing”
5. Iceage Cobra: “We Gotta Move”
6. Tea Cozies: “Stir the Cup”
7. Bad Dream Good Breakfast: “The Urgency of Nightlife…”
8. Ghost Stories: “The Upper Ten/The Lower Five”
9. Grand Hallway: “Darling Wife”

Want to get on this show? Put up some songs at thestranger.com/bands.

Hello everybody, and welcome to Setlist for the week of February 2nd. Let me know what you think of the show at podcasts@thestranger.com.

Here’s the rundown:

A Gun that Shoots Knives: “Every Year”
Gazebo of Destruction: “Desert Walk”
The Sea Navy: “Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived”
The Turn-Ons: “Strange as Snow”
The Feral Children: “Sympathy for the Drambuie”
PBR Street Gang: “Neon Attack”
Strait A Students: “Rushed”
The Kindness Kind: “Midnight Flights”
Schoolyard Heroes: “They Live”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of January 26. Each week I play songs from local bands who are playing in town. Listen and learn.

Patrol: “Relax”
Martian Memo to God: “Useless Chatter”
Hart & the Hurricane: “Hard Times”
Velella Velella: “Alex Boom Selector”
Open Choir Fire: “Things you Had to Do”
The Earaches: “Screwtop Wine”
The Limbs: “54”
Marginal Way: “Black Shirts, White Socks”
The Hands: “Cold Ground (Lay Me Down)”
Clown Fist: “When Giants Return to the Earth”

^{Velella Velella}

Hello Everybody, and welcome to Setlist for the week of January 19. Each week I play songs from the Stranger’s Bands Page.

This week’s line up:

Central Services- “Song 89”
Tall Birds- “Won’t Look Back”
The Invisible Eyes- “Revelation”
Lake of Falcons- “Black and Beige”
Speaker Speaker- “I Was Wrong”
Patrol- “Relax” CCCP-“Someone Like You”
Invention-“Telephoto Love”
Jones Family Fortune- “As the Night Falls on Heaven”

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Welcome to Setlist for the week of January 12th. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.

The Drop- “Over This Now”

Grand Hallway- “Darling Wife”

Lesbian- “Black Forrest Hamm”

The Hands- “Cold Ground”

Hot Rollers- “Black Blue”

The Old Haunts- “Poison Control”

In The Empty City- “Piece of Us”

Amateur Radio Operator- “Rest Stop 112”

Patient Patient- “Amuse Oneself”

The Glasses- “Real Western Living”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of January 4th. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.

Bronze Fawn - “Ten is the New Five”
Ape City R & B - “She’s Candy Coated”
Head Like A Kite - “Circus”
The Fucking Eagles - “Baby, I’m Coming Home”
The Snakebites - “Everybody Feels It When We Get Together”
Pufferfish - “Brake Drum”
The Black Fairies - “Inflatable Lover”
Road to Ruin - “Drive Thru”
The Beautiful Clarks - “What kinda Fool”
Sera Cahoon - “Last Time”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of December 28th. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.

Schoolyard Heroes- “They Live”
The Drug Purse- “Turntable Eyes”
Golden Pig Electric Blues Band- “Born Again”
Common Market- “Track 2”
Weener- “Freedom of 76”
Slender Means- “Painless Life”
Big Business- “Stareadactyl”
Sgt Major- “Drawing Board”
The Capillaries- “Why Should I”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of December 7th. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.
The Turn-Ons- “New Jesus”
Rosyvelt- “Party”
Cantona- “So Sad, So Fine”
The Hands- “Cold Ground”
Fall City Shakedown- “Record Breakers”
Emblematic- “Autographed Photos and Slides”
Tyler Potts- “The Swale”
Uglyhead- “Birds Eating Turtles”
Betty X- “Shoot Em Up”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of November 30th. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.
The Going Rate- “Ten Feet Tall”
Awesome- “Are You Aware”
The Small Change- “Cheating a Cheat”
The Snakebites- “Where the Devil Never Goes”
Happy Ending- “Biding My Time”
Mulally- “First Glance, Best Chance”
Sera Cahoone- “Couch Song”
White Gold- “Bells Bells Bells”
The Pale Pacific- “Gravity Gets Things Done”
Diamond Cut Diamond- “My Ghost”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of November 23rd. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.
Sorry- “Orange Balloon”
The Quiet Ones- “Missing the Party”
Red Jacket Mine- “22 Rose Petal Place”
Altarego- “Vote for Me for President”
Safer- “I Could Really”
Martian Memo to God- “Useless Chatter”
Snowman Plan- “02”
The Four Colour Process- “Patience Guide”
The Abodox- “Hole”
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head- “Beard Lust”

Welcome to Setlist for the week of November 16th. Each week I play songs from local bands who have music up on the Bands Page. Listen up.

This week’s playlist:
Dolour- “Cheer Up, Baby”
The Xray Eyes- “All Talk”
Minus the Bear- “Drilling”
The Earaches- “Screwtop Wine”
Cross-Eyed Rosie- “Little Switzerland”
The Hope- “Summer”
The Hacks- “Kissed With”
North Twin-“Carol Anne”
Matthew Shaw- “Deadlines and Days Off”