​Earlier this week we gave away a pair of tickets to tonight's Lucinda Williams show at the Zoo to the person who sent in the best picture of a burger. Technically, the burger above, submitted by Ben Shapiro, is the winning burger. But what really put Shapiro--and his burger submission--over the top is that Shapiro included a note directing me toward the Burger GPS app, which lists the top burgers in America. Normally, this wouldn't have pushed Shapiro's submission over the edge, but considering that he MADE THE APP, we decided that definitely warranted a win.

Thanks to everyone for playing. Stay tuned for more giveaway soon.

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Sub Pop released Vetiver's new record, The Errant Charm, on June 14.

​No, it doesn't feel like summer. And, if we're lucky, the Seattle summer will start a day earlier than usual and we'll have a happy Fourth. But my summer playlist is coming into focus. I've still got room for more, but here's a look at what's dominating my leisure listening this season:

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​The McTuff Trio
SeaMonster Lounge
Tuesday, June 28

It was a quiet scene when I arrived at the SeaMonster last night for funk group the McTuff Trio's weekly Tuesday-night session. The band was setting up long past their slated set time of 10 p.m. (most of that was because frontman and Hammond organist Joe Doria was assembling his oversized instrument and chatting with a handful of inquiring attendees), and a grim few lounged on couches scattered throughout the narrow space. By the time Doria started the set just before 11 p.m., the vibe had changed completely and a sizable crowd had filled the back room.

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No, we don't actually call it "Hotlanta."

​It's nearing on two months since I left the Peach State in search of something less hot and more liberal. Since this is my first time to the Northwest, and the Atlanta Braves are in town to show the Mariners a thing or two about baseball, I figured I'd break down some of the major differences that are bound to pop up in a 2,647-mile drive.

10. ¿Desea queso?
A warm bowl of queso is practically a staple for Mexican restaurants in Georgia, but on my first day in Seattle the waitress thought I had completely lost it. "You're the first person to ever ask for that," she said. They had nachos, tacos, and burritos with queso on them . . . but a bowl with nothing but cheese? To dip a chip in? I brushed it off as an isolated incident, but I've been met with the same fiasco time after time. You're missing out, Seattle.

9. Growing a fro.
I'd love to know what kind of magical hair-cutting shears are being wielded in Seattle to warrant a $25 haircut. I don't think I've paid more than $12 for a haircut in Georgia my entire life . . . and that's with a tip!

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​After putting his year-old podcast on hiatus last week, Marty Riemer says he's committed to bringing some form of the digital talk show back by Friday, July 8. "I've kind of vowed to myself that it will be too easy to go on hiatus [and not come back]," Riemer says. "I told myself I can't do that." Riemer's added incentive is that the guest he has booked is The Kids in the Hall's Dave Foley.

Riemer started the Marty Riemer Show podcast after he was unceremoniously canned by his longtime employers at 103.7 The Mountain in 2009. Now that he's been back on the station for six months, the daily podcast--typically 30 to 60 minutes, and often featuring a local band--has become exhausting. It's also, Riemer says, in need of a makeover. "It was fun to do this guerrilla-basement podcast when we were trying to show that we could provide a contrast to radio. When we were radio and doing that at the same time, it felt a little weird."

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​Adele fans, get happy. After cancelling her sold-out Paramount show earlier this month due to an untimely bout of laryngitis (the illness seems to have lasted all month--she also had to back out of a duet with Beyonce at last weekend's Glastonbury Festival in her native UK), the British songstress has rescheduled.

Adele will now appear at the Paramount on Friday, August 12. All tickets purchased for the original date will be honored. That means it's still sold out.

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​It hasn't been easy being a Taking Back Sunday fan in recent years.

The New York post-hardcore band hit it big with the indie crowd in 2002 with Tell All Your Friends, a raw, spit-in-your-face album that featured several lyrical jabs at fellow Long Islanders Brand New, and managed to do the unthinkable--it was a follow-up that was just as good or better than the first.

Unfortunately, the ingredients went sour, and several key aspects of the band jumped ship. Guitarist and vocalist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left to start Straylight Run (which had a brief taste of fame with the single "Existentialism on Prom Night") and former guitarist and singer Fred Mascherino left to start one of the great musical abominations since Creed--The Color Fred.

Luckily, the emo stars have aligned and all is right in the world once more. TBS's self-titled fifth studio album hits stores today, and after seven years, Nolan and Cooper are back to (hopefully) salvage whatever mess the last two TBS albums created.

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The Physics have an inextricable connection with sunny, summer Seattle. The trio's debut Future Talk was released in June 2007, followed by High Society in June '09 and Three Piece last May--each full of soulful Justo beats and laid-back rhymes from Thig Natural and Monk Wordsmith. Right on schedule, August is the scheduled home for their sophomore LP Love Is a Business--and "These Moments," with a Zac McConnell-filmed video, is your first taste of The Physics' upcoming summer anthem.More >>

Four Tet

​It's a problem a lot of music festivals seem to have around here: It's 11:30 p.m., the mainstage headliners just shot their last cannonfuls of confetti and finished their second encore, the food carts have packed it in, and all of a sudden there's nothing to do. If you're out at the Gorge, you might go back to the campgrounds and look for a Canadian-flagged bus equipped with a sound system; if you're at a festival inside city limits, you might hop in a cab and hit up any number of unofficial after-parties. These ad-hoc, atomized solutions are fine, but why shouldn't the festival itself get in on the late-night action?

That's exactly what Bumbershoot aims to do this year, in cooperation with Decibel Festival, by hosting Bumbershoot After Dark, a separately ticketed party in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall that will run from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday nights featuring some seriously top-ranking electronic artists and DJs.

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Dave Lake

​Dropkick Murphys
Paramount
Monday, June 27

The mere concept of a concept album is often enough to make most rock fans bristle (Kilroy Was Here, anyone?). Add punk rock to the mix, and many fans will head screaming for the hills. But as Green Day proved in 2004 with American Idiot, and with Fucked Up's just-released David Comes to Life, the concept of a punk-rock concept album isn't completely ridiculous. In fact, it's becoming a totally viable endeavor, especially with so many good ones in recent memory. Add to that list Going Out in Style, the latest LP from Boston punks the Dropkick Murphys, who headlined the Paramount on Monday while showcasing several songs from the album.

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