This scene from a previous Blitz Capitol Hill art walk care of TSB Flickr pool user JeanineAnderson.

Wednesday, August 11th

• One last night for grocery-bagging competition doc Ready, Set, Bag! @ Central Cinema
• Daytime baseball, Mariners vs. A’s @ Safeco Field

• UMAMI Performance‘s dance work home | bodies through Sunday @ INSCAPE
• If you listen to The Mountain, you’ll like Western Australia’s folk-rocking The Waifs @ the Triple Door
• Andy Butler brings his dancey Hercules & Love Affair project together with a live band @ Neumo’s

Thursday, August 12th

• Hope you already have tickets to get retro with Blondie and the B-52s @ Chateau Ste. Michelle
• Second Thursday means it’s Blitz @ Capitol Hill Art Walk
• Chromeo and Holy Ghost should be extra fun. Probably why it’s already sold out @ Showbox
• Former Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks (through the 15th) @ Jazz Alley
• Contemporary Classics‘ The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee starts its closing weekend @ the Ballard Underground

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Friday, August 13th

• KEXP’s free outdoor concert series continues with tunes from hot hot hip hoppists State of the Artist, Noddy, and recently renamed Brite Futures @ the Mural Amphitheatre
• Check out a reading, book signing, and musical presentation for Talking ‘Bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America with ex-Journeymen and author Dick Weissman @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Get all dolled up and head to the track for ladies-only Hats and Heels Night @ Emerald Downs
• Vancouver’s Irish, Mexican & roots musical wonders, The Paperboys, hold a multi-culti hootenanny @ the Triple Door
• You love them in commercials of all sorts, see Melbourne’s the Temper Trap selling nothing but their own tunes @ the Showbox
• More Mexican guitarists by way of Ireland?! Yes, please. If they were making Once about a couple who rocked their guitars as hard as acoustically possible, Rodrigo y Gabriela would’ve been the stars. Find yourself in awe of them @ Marymoor Park
• Irrealist Theatre opens Amniotes: an imaginary History of the End of the World from 1954-20XX @ Free Sheep Foundation (2115 5th Avenue)

Saturday, August 14th

• It’s the second summer Saturday of experimental jazz in the park, care of the Monktail Creative Music Concern and Sounds Outside @ Cal Anderson
• It’s also the second day for Doe Bay Music Festival, which brings a long list of fantastic Northwest musicans like Fruit Bats, Grand Archives, the Maldives, and Hey Marseilles to an intimate gathering of ~750 at one of the area’s most picturesque spots @ Orcas Island

• KEXP’s annual BBQ at Seattle Center runs from 2 to 9 p.m. and is now super-free. With performances from Quasi, Suckers, the Lonely Forest, the Joy Formidable, Dinosaur Feathers, and Victor Shade @ the Mural Amphitheatre
• John Roderick hosts the first of his two dates in a mini-residency @ the Triple Door
• Blogger April Winchell explores the dark side of Etsy craze with her book Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF @ Elliott Bay Book Co.

Sunday, August 15th

• See! Raiders of the Lost Ark. Eat! Your pizza. Drink! Your beer (through 8/25) @ Central Cinema
• Fans of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (you know who you are)–they’re slumming @ Benaroya Hall

Monday, August 16th

• To celebrate the Dimitriou’s debut of the Amina Figarova Sextet, they have a free (with RSVP) show @ Jazz Alley
• The most fun you’ll have on a Monday night. Spazzpop & flashing lights from Ontario’s Tokyo Police Club with support from Brooklyn’s Freelance Whales @ Neumo’s
• The Ruined Cabaret is a fundraising send-off to the production @ Intiman Theatre

Tuesday, August 17th

• Poet, Bainbridge resident, and University of Washington professor Linda Bierds reads from her poetry collection Flight, with Julie Sheehan who is a drinker @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• One Pot presents a roving dinner party with readings and discussions about soul music. After the feast, the party continues with DJs Riz, Cooky Parker, and Mike Nipper, as well as a performance by THEESatisfaction @ Neumo’s