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Benaroya Hall is a really great venue with terrific acoustics. Belle & Sebastian put on an incredible show there last night. Having never seen them live before, I don’t know what I was expecting. But whatever I expected, they exceeded it. Amazing performance.

Trashcan Sinatras opened.

If there’s a better band to see live these days, I can’t guess who it might be.

Dan and I went to see Man Man at Neumos on 9/8/10, and it was almost as great as the first time I saw them two years ago at Bumbershoot. I mean, it was indoors and way more crowded and we didn’t show up early to get in the front row…

But all that aside, it was just as great a show. You must hear this band. But more importantly, you MUST see a show!

These pics don’t begin to do justice to their majesty. These are just to show how packed Neumos was for this incredible group of musicians.

Discovery is a new project by members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot. Vampire Weekend (at Neumo’s) was one of the best shows I saw in 2008.