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Jimi is our chief hometown hero here in Seattle (Kurt Cobain being a very close second). This is from probably his most famous performance after Woodstock, live at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. (At the end of his gig, he climaxed "Wild Thing" by lighting his guitar on fire.) Anyway, I used to have an LP from Monterey with Jimi on Side One and Otis Redding on Side Two. (What a great album. Somewhere I lent it to someone and it vanished.) However, it didn't have the whole performance, and this was one of the songs left off -- which was dumb, since this is one of the finest versions of it. "Hey Joe" has been a rock standard for years, but Jimi's version is the standard by which all others are judged. Anyway, it's in the film version, and the newly remastered copy of the film is well worth owning.

PS Our sister site Newstalgia proudly features The Jags -- Live at the Paris Theatre, London, 1979 for your Saturday night listening pleasure.

Like Motley Crue, The Pixies, Aerosmith and seemingly everyone else these days, the legendary Devo will be hitting the road playing Are We Not Men and Freedom of Choice in their entirety.

The original Akronites Gerard and Bob Casale and Bob and Mark Mothersbaugh will join drum god Josh Freese for the dates this fall.

Not only is there old Devo in the works, but new Devo too. Warner Bros., the band's once and future home, will also release a new studio album from the band sometime in 2010.

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Harvey Danger are best known for "Flagpole Sitta" (you know it as the "I'm not sick but I'm not well" song, if the title doesn't jump out,) but to many diehards they are this generation's kings of power-pop. They played their final show ever last night at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe, and after "Flagpole Sitta" exclaimed, "I think we up on stage will take five seconds to appreciate the fact that we never, ever have to play that song again." Therefore, I owe it to the recently departed group to feature one of their lesser (read: barely at all) known gems, "Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo".

Sonic Youth's new album The Eternal, their sixteenth, came out yesterday. Here's the leadoff track, "Sacred Trickster", from Later... With Jools Holland last month.

Sonic Youth were one of the very first of the indie bands of the 1980s to jump to a major label. DGC signed the band hoping that they would act as a magnet for more credible acts to the label; they attracted a small band from Seattle called Nirvana shortly after. The Eternal marks Sonic Youth's return to the indies -- it's out on the hugely successful Matador Records.

Wheedle's Groove - Seattle's Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75

Hope y'all made it over the hump. Here's some sweet Seattle funk from the Seventies.

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I'm with Howie: Green Day's new album, 21st Century Breakdown, is yet another great piece of songwriting. I'm astonished that at the very least it equals American Idiot, which I thought would be an impossible album to top.

They're kicking off their national tour Friday night in Seattle at Key Arena. I still haven't wrangled a pass yet, but I'm hoping to figure out a way to get in and report back. In the meantime, I wanted to run this live version of "Viva La Gloria" as a kind of warmup.

(guest blogged by Howie Klein)

R.E.M. fans probably know that every year at Christmas time the band sends out an exclusive vinyl 7" single to their fan club members.

In 1995 the song was a cover of Chris Isaak's greatest hit, "Wicked Game" (1989). Even rarer is this live version of the song taped off the soundboard at an R.E.M. dress rehearsal.

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I was thinking about the song yesterday because Chris Isaak is from Stockton, California and Saturday that area's congressman, Jerry McNerney, did a chat at Firedoglake and we gave away 2-disc sets of Chris' GREATEST HITS (including a DVD) and I saved one for the Late Night Music Club. If you'd like to win the set, send an e-mail to downwithtyranny@aol.com with a one paragraph explanation of why you're the one who should get it.

C&L wants to thank all those who participated in the last contest. You can read the winning entries below the fold.

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C&L's Late Night Music Club with Nirvana

I've touched on many different genres in music so far as the club gets underway and I wanted to link to the band that shifted Rock music away from the "hair bands" of the eighties into the Seattle grunge movement of the nineties. That band was Nirvana.

"All Apologies," is one of my favorite songs from their album titled "Nirvana."

Update: It was originally recored on "Utero"

"With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from their 1991 album Nevermind, Nirvana exploded into the mainstream, bringing along with it an offshoot of punk and alternative rock that the mainstream media of the time referred to as grunge...read on

I'm still looking for a cool name for the club, so please keep your ideas coming. I've also enlisted a former music executive to help me develop and run this endeavor.