
Tickets to Sol's farewell show (learn more about where he's going and what he's doing next here!) don't officially go on sale until tomorrow at 10 am. BUT! We have a special pre-sale available for Stranger readers. Hey, thanks you!
Buy your tickets before the crowd here by entering the secret password: thestranger. The promotion is good until 10 pm tonight.
The show is on June 16th at the Showbox at the Market. It's all ages and XV and the Physics are also on the bill.
Safe travels to you, Sol! Come back and see us again real soon.
But they're going fast and the show will probably sell out. So if you plan on going to Sunday night's show at the Neptune, and you'd rather be safe than sorry, buy your advance tickets here.
I just got back from Vegas, where I was surprised to see Die Antwoord's name on a casino marquee—especially at Mandalay Bay. I missed the Seattle show last week, and was still curious. I was also spending (and winning) lots of money on slots and black jack tables. Tickets for Die Antwoord were $36.50 per person. This seemed like too much. Should I have paid, and gone anyway?

Also, more photos from Die Antwoord's Seattle Showbox show, by Stranger shooter Whitman Dewey-Smith, after the jump!

As predicted, this just in: Just a heads up, we are about to send out a release announcing a 2nd Jeff Mangum date at The Moore, on Tues, 4/17. Tickets will go on sale to the public today at 12pm...so in 2 minutes! :)
Shows have been selling out in minutes. I have a suspicion that they'll announce another show as soon as this one does. Stay tuned here, and get your trigger finger ready and go!
Actual Pain & Second Sight just somehow booked big band COLD CAVE at small venue Electric Tea Garden. Friday February 10th. Do you want tickets? Well, then hurry up! Buy 'em now.


Still on the fence about whether or not you should go? Of course you should. It's an election year, things are being occupied, and gay marriage is still a topic of debate—it's a great time to listen to something that'll light a fire under your ass.
The show is all ages, doors open at 7:30 pm, and tickets are available here for $25.
Now please enjoy a song that's still relevant eight years after it's release:
NOFX - "Idiots Are Taking Over"
A local major software company whose name makes perverted minds think of the effects of a penis in cold water is opening a store today in the U-Village. At 9:30 am, the doors open to the Microsoft Store (conveniently located near the Apple store) and the first 200 people will "receive two complimentary premier-viewing tickets to their choice of either The Black Keys performance on Friday, October 21st, or the OneRepublic performance on Saturday, October 22nd, along with one VIP pass to meet OneRepublic after their show." There will be another 800 tickets given out to the concert of your choice but only if one visits the store.
The base for technology and coolness in the future (put down your iPods, kids) will be the concert venue of tomorrow (and Saturday), as these concerts are taking place in front of the Microsoft Store, IN THE U-VILLAGE PARKING LOT, one of the most annoying parking lots to navigate on a REGULAR TUESDAY AFTERNOON. Just in case you were wondering when NOT to drive to U-Village and hope for parking spaces or people with logical driving skills, the Black Keys play at 7:00 pm Friday, October 21, and OneRepublic plays at 2:30 pm Saturday, October 22. More details at this fancy website include a complete schedule of opening day and weekend festivities.
Good luck out there.
And then Dinosaur Jr. will play Bug in its entirety!
Tickets to this totally awesome show, happening at the Showbox at the Market on December 17, go on sale Friday. BUT! There is a pre-sale happening tomorrow right here for those lucky enough to have a password. And hey, look, here's a password: STRANGER.
The pre-sale is 10 am-10 pm tomorrow. Tickets officially go on sale Friday at 10 am.
The late show is already sold out. Doors for this one are at 6 pm, Sunday, November 13. I'd kinda rather go at that time on a Sunday night anyway. Tickets here.
So weird that the Flaming Lips are playing the Puyallup Fair, right? I think a carnival is actually a great place to see them—get dizzy on the Tilt-o-Whirl and then go dance with Wayne Coyne and all his fuzzy friends! Anyway, if you plan on going, Line Out reader Tom has a tip for you:
Some of your readers might be interested to know that you can buy half-off tickets to the Flaming Lips show at the Puyallup Fair on September 21 through Amazon. $30 tickets for $15, and that includes admission to the fair too. Seems like they're going quickly at that price.
Click here to get the good deal and send a thanks out to Tom for passing along the tip.
(There are Counting Crow tickets for cheap, too, should you be an Adam Duritz fan.
As Grant mentioned, City Arts Fest three-day passes are now on sale—their line-up includes Ryan Adams, Robyn, Built to Spill, the Long Winters, Fences, Fastbacks, Blackalicious, and a whole bunch more.
But hopefully you've been saving your money because the pre-sale for Watch the Throne (Jay-Z and Kanye West) started this morning, too. As already noted on SeaShows, our ticket twitter feed, you can buy tickets here using the code WTT. They're pricey. You've been warned.
And! Feist is on sale! Washed Out is on sale! Erasure tickets are still available now that the show has been moved from the Neptune to the Moore Theatre! And Odd Future tickets for their show at the Showbox at the Market will go on sale tomorrow at 10 am (I do not like them—blech—but maybe you do. So now you know).
That's a lot of shows, and a lot of cash. So we'll give you a break. We have a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's 21+ Physics show at the Crocodile. Want to win them? Just e-mail your first and last name to freetickets@thestranger.com with The Physics in the subject line and you'll be entered. The tickets are for the late, 21+ show with Hi-Life Soundsystem, Malice + Mario Sweet, Fly Moon Royalty, and Jake One. More info here.
If you follow SeaShows, our breaking ticket news Twitter feed, then you already saw the news:

Click here tomorrow morning at 10 am to buy your tickets—the password (as you can see) is THESTRANGER. The show is all ages, Mayer Hawthorne & the Country open, and tickets are $27.50.
Sunday, June 26 at Paramount. Get 'em here.
Megan wrote:
If you were listening to 107.7 the End at 7:50 am this morning, then you heard the news—Death Cab for Cutie are playing a surprise show tomorrow night at the Showbox Sodo and tickets go on sale at 8 am this morning.
Then from the comment thread:
Can't tell if it's sold out, most likely
Posted by AveryCS on May 10, 2011 at 9:43 AM
I couldn't get tickets but will pay prime if you or somebody you know has tickets...
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Posted by six five on May 10, 2011 at 9:50 AM
There's a bunch on craigslist for $100 each. jerks.
Posted by Conrad McMasters on May 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Game got real.
If you were listening to 107.7 the End at 7:50 this morning, then you heard the news—Death Cab for Cutie are playing a surprise show tomorrow night at the Showbox Sodo and tickets go on sale at 8 am this morning.
The show is at 8:30 pm, doors are at 7 pm, it's $25, and it's a benefit show for Seattle School Lunch Program. Read all the details, and get the ticket link, right here, at Harms' blog.
In other Death Cab news, the End also has a new song, "Under the Sycamore," streaming here.
On Saturday, April 9th, Healthy Times Fun Club will host Rhode Island noise duo Lightning Bolt (duh). Since this is going to be such a hot-item show, it is—unusually for HTFC—an advance tickets only affair. To score your tickets now (and I do recommend doing it ASAP), try these fine area locations:
-Cairo (507 E Mercer St.)
-Pilot Books (219 Broadway E)
-Hollow Earth Radio (2018 A East Union St.)
The H.E.R. folks suggest you stop by on Sundays, Wednesdays or Fridays, cuz that's when the most volunteers are around.
Happy hunting, don't sleep on this.
Face to Face are playing Showbox at the Market on June 17th with Strung Out (they still exist?) and Blitzkid. Tickets officially go on sale tomorrow at 10 am, but there's a fancy-pants pre-sale happening right now.
Just go here and use the code showbox with prompted.
I love you, ’90s pop punk!
Didn't buy your tickets to tonight's Girl Talk show at Showbox Sodo before they sold out? Well you're in luck, slackers. More tickets have been released. There are about 50. Or there were as of 15 minutes ago. They're available online here and at the Showbox box offices.