This Month In Photos: July 2013

It's tough to go inside when the weather is so nice out. Especially if going inside means dozens of sweaty bodies packed to see a show. But sometimes those are the best shows! Maybe it's the claustrophobia? The risk of heat stroke? I'm not saying you made the wrong decision by bonfiring and camping in July instead of going to a show or two, but you did miss out on some excellent arts and entertainment.


July 9 at Heartland. Clockwise from top left: Diners; the crowd at Heartland between sets; Erin from Dogbreth and Nikki from No Goddamn Dancing; Craig Salt Peters. 

Postal Service at Key Arena. July 18. Featuring Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), and Laura Burhenn (The Mynabirds) with special vocals by Jen Wood.

The set lights were reminiscent of city lights and buildings at night.

Seattle singer-songwriter, Jen Wood

Jenny Lewis

Gibbard, running from drums to vocals, thrashing the set along the way.

Pitschouse at the Sunset Tavern. July 21.

Lucarne at the Sunset Tavern. July 21.

Blooper at the Sunset Tavern. July 21.

Capitol Hill Block Party, Sunday, July 28. A quieter crowd than was experienced on Saturday.

Black Marble at Neumos, CHBP.

Trails And Ways at Neumos, CHBP.

Cults at the Main Stage, CHBP.

Pure Bathing Culture at Neumos, CHBP. Red Bull Sound Select artists, along with the Grizzled Mighty, Eighteen Individual Eyes, and Dirty Projectors!

Capitol Hill Block Party, Around The Block Party, or Timber!?

Another weekend in Seattle, another few epic festivals and shows to check out. Life's rough, huh?

You all are aware that Capitol Hill Block Party is this weekend, right? We chatted about the line-up a while back. A few things have changed: Chromatics, Glass Candy, and Big Black Delta are no longer playing the festival, and Night Cadet, Secret Colors, and White China Gold have been added to the schedule. The Capitol Hill Neighborhood Blog has a great rundown of all the exciting changes made to make the 17th CHBP one of the best ones to date.

In case you're not ready to shell out the higher last-minute ticket prices for CHBP, or you want to avoid the 30,000 strong at CHBP, you could just go to this way cool mega-show that Chop Suey and What's Up Seattle are hosting, Around The Block Party. Their lineup is pretty sweet, and best of all, it's FREE! Free music, free BBQ burgers and hotdogs, and drink specials. You basically can't go wrong. And look! Lots of bands NGD has previously celebrated and suggested. Did I mention it's free?

When: July 28 (Sunday), starting at 3pm
Where: Chop Suey
The Lineup: Hot Victory, Haunted Horses, Dream Salon, The Exquisites, MTNS, Wimps, Child Birth, Agatha, Dude York

Oh yeah, and the first annual Timber! Festival is happening out in Carnation this same weekend. If your idea of a great weekend is to get out of the city, go camping, and see music while doing so, here's your festival. We mentioned it a while back. The lineup is full of awesome mostly-locals: The Helio Sequence, Fruit Bats, Quasi, Ivan & Alyosha, Noah Gunderson, Lemolo, Bryan John Appleby, Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers, Kithkin, Hobosexual, Baltic Cousins, S (Jenn Ghetto), Avians Alight, Vikesh Kapoor, Pablo Tucker, Ten-Speed Music, Passenger String Quartet, Jacob Miller & The Bridge City Crooners, Ben Fisher, and the Nu Klezmer Army.

Changes that have happened to the lineup since our post: the band River Giant broke up and canceled all dates it had scheduled (just 9 days before the festival...), but the guys in Ivan & Alyosha will be filling in (they're great, so that's not too sad). 

You pretty much can't go wrong, so just pick one and GO! See you out there.

Capitol Hill Block Party Schedule; 1-day Tickets Announced

CHBP announced their final daily schedule for 2013 today, as well as the link to purchase single-day tickets. We will have a breakdown post in the future, once we have a chance to listen to some of these bands we haven't heard of.

But for now...straight from their email (plus acts we love/are excited about in bold):

Friday 
Girl Talk • STRFKR • Dillon Francis • Chromatics • Danny Brown • Telekinesis • Glass Candy • Daughn Gibson • Bleached • White Lung • BellaMaine • Big Black Delta • Fly Moon Royalty *They did a great set last year, including a sexy rendition of "Baby Got Back" • Soft Metals • The Young Evils • Grave Babies • The Grizzled Mighty • Constant Lovers • Bear Mountain • William Tyler • Deadkill • Princess • The Trashies • Stickers • Kid Smpl • Heavy Petting • Iska Dhaaf • Monogamy Party 

Saturday 
Pickwick • Purity Ring • A Trak • El-P • Star Slinger • Killer Mike • Big Freedia • Rose Windows • Radiation City • Wild Cub • La Luz • Pure Bathing Culture • The Flavr Blue • Doldrums • Onuinu • 18 Individual Eyes • Country Lips • Naomi Punk • Dog Shredder • The Horde and the Harem • Land of Pines • Gaytheist • Chastity Belt • Fools Gold Club House • FF • Pony Time • S • Dave B • Youryoungbody • Vox Mod • TacocaT • Grave Matters • Spaceneedles • Rabbits • Trash Fire • JK Pop

Sunday 
The Flaming Lips • Frightened Rabbit • Cults • Hey Marseilles • Latyrx • Odesza • Ravenna Woods w/ Seattle Rock Orchestra • Sandrider • Black Marble • Trails and Ways • Poor Moon • The Comettes • Survival Knife • Katie Kate • Learning Team • Theoretics • Grenades • Unnatural Helpers • Sam Lachow + Raz Simone • Ubu Roi • Tomten • Jarv Dee • Nissim • Tragic Valley • Scream Queen • Old Iron • Tacos • Dutty Wilderness • Red Bull Sound Select w/ Special Guests

Capitol Hill Block Party 2013 Ticket Information 
A limited number of 3-day passes available for $95 (~$111 per day after taxes) HERE 
Single Day Passes ON SALE today for $40 (~$50 per day after taxes) HERE

See anything you're psyched about? Is there a band we should be excited for? Write us a comment below!