By the time you read this, you better already be on your way to the Block Party, or else your totally gonna be missing shit!

However, our final Block Party Bands of the Day are Cribs and the Pop Machine! You have to make the decison NOW about which one you are gonna be seeing!

The Pop Machine Number of Myspace Friends: 1,323

One time I saw this band practicing. I was wandering around in Ballard (don’t ask me why, I have no idea why I went there either), and of course, when in Ballard, you better get into Bop Street Records. That place is awesome. It’s like the record stores I used to go into in Boston—it’s dirty, they have a whole Nina Hagen section, the counter clerk might be secretly getting drunk. I love it. It’s the best thing about Ballard.

Anywhoo, I was wandering through Bop Street when I heard a band playing in the basement. The basement is a cavern full of duplicates of what they have upstairs that they use to restock and to sell wholesale, and down there, in all the huge stacks, I found the Pop Machine. I watched them sing some songs and they were a sweaty, poppy mess. That was about three quarters of a year ago, I think, and they sure have cleaned up their act. Now, they are a sweaty, poppy, ball of fun. Go listen to their songs on Myspace. It’s fun as hell.

The Cribs Number of Myspace friends: 47,14—Also, doesn’t the guy on the right look a little like Ben Lashes?

I’ve never seen the Cribs perform in a basement, or anywhere at all. I think I even looked over the fact that they were on the schedule for Block Party in the same way you look over a word that you don’t know when you are reading a book, and then later you don’t even remember reading the word at all.

I feel less than qualified judging the Cribs. They would be less than qualified to judge me as well. I know that they released a record of poppy rock music that some guy from Franz Ferdinand produced (does that mean anything these days? Did they pay him as much as he got to do that cookbook?). I also know that they have a nice Myspace, with many many comments. I feel like those people are more qualified than me, a.k.a, they’ve heard of the Cribs, so let’s look at a selection:

“frm now on ur so much better than kasabian, and im not saying that coz im pissed off, anyway, i agree, music is rubbish right now!my bro said that u talking bout u self, he thinks u are crap and shud fuckoff this earth, he a right knobhead.!!!womans needs is best live song,i filmed it…”

I agree! Right Knobhead! Brilliant.

“great show at the trobadour it was amazing yea mon cum bak soon please ,,,n thnx fo the encore nn yea it was pretty hot in dat venue”

Yea Mon! Go see the Cribs!

(The Cribs play today at 4:15 pm on the Main Stage. The Pop Machine plays at 3 pm on the Vera Stage. I don’t know why these got set up as versus, you could totally catch both if you want to. And if you hurry!)