Greg Proops is always funny, but thought he was on fire that night in Bellevue. Lots of local jokes about snowpocalypse 2012, Lincoln Square and Pioneer Square. Listen here:

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Catch more Greg Proops on Saturday for Whose Line Is It?

Former Selves is a man, a self described myth and an iconic-Twitter related Batman expert. On top of his great personality makes fuzzy bedroom pop music. It’s sometimes cheesy, sometimes funky, and sometimes silly, but there continues to be some lingering genius. He’s an Olympian soul who is stuck in Lynnwood. Yes, the Ducktails and Atlas Sound inspiration is obvious but Selves continues to break personal ground with Northwestern stylized melodies.

Clearly his music is amateur but pointing that out misses the point of the bedroom pop. Selves has a quirky sound found in a restless soul. He has a familiar weirdness about him; a daring imagination that exists like a child inside of our past. Former Selves has tapped into something and it sure is fun to hear what he’s found.

“Running For The Bus” is what happens when you smoke weed during a meant-to-be-productive afternoon. “Coffee With Gaddafi” has all the material to be a hit- with its polarizing harmonica and demoralizing message, we’re on a catchy high-rise drinking mochas with one of the world’s most recently deceased evil dudes.

His new album can be found at www.formerselves.org and can be downloaded for free. In the meantime check out his music video for “Dust In The Cartridge”

Packed at the Sea Monster, people all jammed together in that tiny space, dancing, whooping it up as they tore it up. Joe Doria taking psycho solos, wring so much freaky modal mayhem on that Hammond B3 organ, sick sound.  Amazing left hand bass work too. Andy Coe mad chops on the guitar, tore it up on final tune, Walter Becker worthy. Cliff Colon saxophone rips scintillating solos, gets the crowd going as he builds and builds and builds.  Drummer Tarik Abouzied keeps it moving and frenetic. They had a trombone player too, didn’t catch his name but that added nice texture. These guys are a Seattle Tuesday night institution, glad to see it’s still going strong.

Now, a fIREHOSE reunion, that's something to get excited about no doubt. Love that band.  Ed from Ohio, my hero. George Hurley, titan on drums. And Mike Watt, pirate bass player.  Not only are they playing Coachella, but they've got a whole tour announced:

04-05 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's
04-06  Portland, OR - Doug Fir
04-07  Seattle, WA - Neumos
04-09  Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo House of Music
04-10  Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
04-11  San Francisco, CA - Slim's
04-12  Santa Cruz, CA - Historic Coconut Grove Ballroom *
04-13  Fresno, CA - Fulton 55
04-14  Indio, CA - Coachella Music Festival
04-17  Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom *
04-18  Flagstaff, AZ - Orpheum Theatre *
04-19  Tucson, AZ - Plush
04-21  Indio, CA - Coachella Music Festival

These guys are like Austenitic, but a guitar instead of bass. Why am I not surprised that Austenitic shows up as a fan on their Facebook page? Long live Seattle Math Rock.