Thankfully, teh internets offer theoretically unlimited space to devote to worthy artists. So with a little more ado, I’d like to let you know that Subtle will be invading the Nectar Lounge tomorrow night along with Zach Hill & Peer Pressure (who are performing Necromancer) and Sleepy Eyes of Death. Expect some dramatic, twisted pop reeking of newness.

Check out this engrossing interview with Subtle front man Adam “Doseone” Drucker in The Believer.

Also note that Dose will be collaborating with Mike Patton and TV on the Radio’s Tunde on a vocal-centric project that will possibly lead to the next evolutionary development of the larynx.

Subtle performing "Mercury Craze" live

Sorry Uh Huh Her fans.

The other day, I saw a sticker affixed to a poster for tomorrow night's 2 Live Crew show at Nectar (featuring local crews Mad Rad and Champagne Champagne) that read: "This insults women." Well, no duh, right? Is there really anyone on Capitol Hill in 2008 who doesn't know that 2 Live Crew insults women? Who exactly is this sticker mobilizing? Me so confused. I almost want to make a smaller sticker to put on that sticker that reads: "This insults the media literate."

Or, as this week's New Column, "Me So Corny: Jokes 4 U by 2 Live Crew," puts it:

What up, Seattle? 2 Live Crew here, and when we’re not busy fucking bitches, or talking about fucking bitches, or making records about fucking bitches, or draggin’ our asses to court to defend our right to make records about fucking bitches, we’re cracking each other’s shit up with motherfucking buckets of yuks! FOR EXAMPLE!

Two silk worms were in a race. What was the result? A tie, motherfucker!

Do you know why anteaters never get sick? They're full of anty-bodies, you skank-ass ho!

What do you get when you cross a rooster and a duck? A bird that gets up at the quack of dawn, silly bitch!

Now we’re out of this raggedy motherfucker like last year.

Speaking of Abe Vigoda--the band's guitarist, Juan Velazquez, talked to Kurt B. Reighley for this week's story "A Big, Gay Roundtable." Reighley talked to a number of openly gay artists (also including members of Torche and These Arms Are Snakes) and asked them what it's like to be in "bands that don't speak directly to a queer sensibility or engage in lifestyle marketing—especially groups that make intense, heavy music and play to primarily young male fans."

An excerpt:

Mainstream gay media overlooks these bands. Conversely, music journalists rarely talk about their sexual preferences. Brooks estimates "less than 10 percent" of Torche buffs know he's homosexual; before a recent European tour, one well-meaning supporter e-mailed Brooks to tell him how hot Swedish chicks are. If fans hear someone in Abe Vigoda is gay, Velazquez says they often guess singer Michael Vidal. "People make the assumption, because he is a soft-spoken, nice guy. And sometimes, I'm not. I can be pretty abrasive."

Read the story here. It's an interesting piece.

Abe Vigoda play Neumos tomorrow night with Diplo, Torche also play tomorrow night at El Corazon.

There are two glaring omissions in this week's Up & Coming concert listings: Swedish hypemachine it-girl Lykke Li (pictured above, with shoes) and French hypemachine it-girl (ca. 2007) Yelle.

How did this happen? Well, somewhere between dropping acid with Of Montreal and time-travelling with Brian Wilson, these international ladies slipped through the cracks. Our apologies. But since these acts owe so much of their buzz to the Internets anyway, maybe it's only appropriate that we address them here on Line Out.

Lykke Li's Youth Novels was produced by Peter Bjorn & John's Björn Yttling, and some folks have pointed out that it kind of sounds like the female vocals from that band's "Young Folks" stretched out to album length. The album is pleasant and poppy enough, though, with a couple undeniable gems, the below, "Dance, Dance, Dance" being one of them:

But, and this is the techno-dork/DJ in me talking, where these tracks really come alive is in the remixes, specifically the Dada Life remix of "Dance, Dance, Dance," the Loving Hand remix of "Little Bit," and both the Metronomy and Fred Falke remixes of "I'm Good, I'm Gone." Also, she closes out her live shows with a cover of "Can I Kick It?" Yes, she can.

I've previously written about Yelle here and here, but basically, Yelle is a delightful, dirty-talking French electro-pop cartoon character. Observe:

Yelle plays Neumos Monday, October 27th, 8pm, $15, all-ages, w/Passion Pit, Funeral Party, & DJ Colby B

Lykke Li plays Neumos Wednesday, October 29th, 8pm, $15, all-ages, w/Friendly Fires

Psychic Ill’s Dins (2006) is one of the best rock albums of recent years. Without being blatant about it, they update the expansive, heat-mirage psychedelia of Texan '60s legends Thirteenth Floor Elevators and the Red Krayola. “What made Dins revelatory,” I wrote in another publication, “was its adept alternation between disorienting atmospheric meandering and thrusting rock motion.”

From the few tracks I’ve sampled so far, Mirror Eye promises to be sublime, too.

Now enjoy some footage from last year’s PI show at the Funhouse.

I highly recommend.

LA/NYC duo Ludachrist put pop music of many stripes and club bangers of many styles in a blender (e.g., New Order’s “Blue Monday” merged with Rick Ross’ “Everyday I’m Hustlin’”; the Eagles mashed with Lil Jon for “Hotel Crunkifornia”) while wearing goofy costumes. Hilarity and partying ensue.

Seattle’s Mad Rad will be celebrating the release of their White Gold album. If nothing else, you have to give Mad Rad (or their street team) credit for their posters hyping White Gold that blanket every available surface on Capitol Hill. What I’ve heard by Mad Rad sounds like the sort of faux-bling party rap and new-wave/electro miscegenation that brings to mind, toot sweet, Bolivian marching powder and and jauntily tilted ballcaps.

Overall, this bill sounds like a menu for youthful indiscretions and exceptional debauchery. Bring some protection...

Mad Rad’s “Super Dope!”

Now you're invited. And, as if you need a refresher course on these guys, the Saturday Knights at the 2008 Capitol Hill Block Party:

Live performances this decade by Sixto Rodriguez, the cult folk-rock figure from Detroit, are very rare. So it might behoove lovers of trenchant lyrics and raw, mind-bending folkadelia to tune in to Detroit public radio station WDET Friday at 8:25 am Pacific and check out how the creator of the classic Cold Fact LP (reissued in August by Seattle’s Light in the Attic Records) is holding up in the new millennium. A tight band consisting of Jim Diamond (Dirtbombs, White Stripes), Matthew Smith (the Go), Bobby Emmett (the Sights) and Dave Shettler (the Sights) 
will back Rodriguez for this on-air action.

I thought Library Science were a dub group—albeit an unconventional one—but this video shows that they’ve been broadening their scope. “Do It To It” is an absurdly euphoric rush of electro rock, like U.S.E jamming with Junior Senior after guzzling a case of Sparks.

In other news, the zany, sampladelic Bran Flakes (who include Library Science’s Mildred Pitt) have signed to Illegal Art, which will release their new CD, I Have Hands, in Feb. 2009.

Let's guess which past-their-prime artist will be headlining the last night. I predict it'll be Sly & the Family Stone or Operation Ivy. Your turn.

It's as easy as ordering a Redhook. All you have to do visit one of the bars listed on the schedule below, show up between 6-10 pm, and order a Redhook or Dewars. That's it! The proceeds will be donated to the Vera Project.

Here's the schedule (all events are 21+):

Wednesday October 8
Saint
Hazlewood
Shorty's
Easy Street West Seattle – with a 7p.m. show with Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet (featuring Bela Fleck)

Thursday October 9
Cha Cha
Hattie's Hat
Mission
Rendezvous

Friday October 10
Linda's Tavern
King's Hardware
Spitfire
West 5

Saturday October 11
Neumos Presents A Drink for the Kids 2008 - Grand Finale Concert
Very special super secret surprise guest headliner!
The Ruby Suns (Sub Pop) from New Zealand
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Hosted by People's Republic of Komedy's Kevin Hyder
DJ Righteous Trash

Buy tickets for the finale show here. And don't forget to tip your bartender.

In other good news, Nacional Records will reissue the Chile-based German artist’s collection of clever, joyful, Kraftwerk covers en español, El Baile Alemán. Check out the sweet rendition of “Tour de France” below.