On the List: September 8-14

Wednesday, September 8th

• Not a bad lineup for a Wednesday, with The Walkmen and The Helio Sequence @ Showbox
• Get there early and avoid the lines at the first night of the symphony's Beethoven and Wine Festival (through the 10th) @ Benaroya Hall
• I know we just had a long Labor Day weekend of music, but that shouldn't keep you from the one-two party punch of Let's Wrestle and Man Man @ Neumo's
• That Broadway musical project was a joke; so the kids will have no choice but to behold the intensity of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists @ the Vera Project
• Stimulate Dance performs a site-specific performance as part of ArtSparks @ Occidental Park

Thursday, September 9th

Daliantaie McNeil, getting ready to appear with Seattle Arts and Lectures

• It's the second Thursday of the month, which means it's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Art Walk
• Solo performer Stokeley Towles continues his exploration of our public systems with Trash Talk: The Social Life of Garbage @ New City Theatre
• Catch a train to Portland to fill the Bumbershoot-sized hole in your heart with two citywide festivals just south of the border @ Musicfest Northwest & Time-Based Art Festival
• Only one night to catch Louis CK's new stand-up film Hilarious (Audrey's Sundance review here) @ Central Cinema
• Yes, his height is probably below average for a Swede, but the Tallest Man On Earth picks up the torch that gravelly Dylan dropped in Memorial Stadium this weekend and runs with it @ Neumo's

Friday, September 10th

• Sold out: It's Billy and a bunch of other dudes going by the name Smashing Pumpkins @ Showbox SoDo
• Check out the craggy folk of A.A. Bondy and the introspective lyrics of JBM @ Tractor
• Or, wait for Portland to come to you: Menomena @ Showbox
• Opening: Strawberry Theatre Workshop's Breaking the Code @ the Erickson Theatre
• Digital restoration of The Bridge on the River Kwai (through Sept. 12) @ SIFF Cinema

Saturday, September 11th

• Celebrate Patsy Cline's birthday with two shows of Sweet Dreams, Patsy Cline covers by some of the top Northwest singer-songwriter ladies, including Star Anna, Rachel Flotard, Kristen Ward, Kim Vivrant, and Victoria Wimer-Contreras @ Triple Door
• The National's albums were made for cool autumn evenings; bundle up and enjoy them with Okkervil River @ Marymoor
• If you like surreal British humor of The Mighty Boosh, be sure to stop by and see Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman @ the NWFF

"After the Show," care of slightlynorth

Sunday, September 12th

• Head to Sand Point for the 7th annual Pony Boy Jazz Picnic @ Magnuson Park
• Titus Andronicus! Indie punks with a bent for literature and history! What's not to like? @ Tractor Tavern
• Opening: Moliere's Doctor in Spite of Himself, starring Daniel Breaker @ the Intiman

Monday, September 13th

• There's no place like home, but there is The Wizard of Oz (through the 14th) @ Central Cinema
• It's the 11th Annual Sister City Jazz Day, as Kobe, Japan's 2010 Jazz Queen, Geila Zilkha performs @ Jazz Alley
• Fans of fado should catch Portuguese chanteuse Ramana Vieira @ the Triple Door
• Fuzzed-out British buzz band and Sub Pop signees Male Bonding @ The Sunset

Tuesday, September 14th

• A very intimate night hosted by Seattle Arts and Lectures with the greatest living American author (cue backlash) Jonathan Franzen @ Benaroya Hall
• Ratatat will play their good times video game songs @ Showbox SoDo
• "Authentic white blues guitar player" Johnny Winter brings it live @ the Triple Door