The Esurance Capitol Hill Block Party is nearly upon us. At Lineout, reports of street closures in progress and calm event organizers were filed at noon [#] and assurances of ticket availability were made yesterday afternoon. While the whole weekend’s lineup is impressively solid and wide-reaching, genre-wise, and you might want to sneak out of work early to arrive (the doors open in a hour) in time for the Saturday Knights followed by Matt & Kim, you might also want to fit a little room into your schedule for a disco nap in the sun to prepare yourself for Girl Talk.

If, like me, you missed getting tickets for his sold out show at Chop Suey this winter [mb], this is the opportunity you’ve been longing for to remedy that fatal error in judgement. I since listened to the tape of that set and crowded into the teeming dance tent at Coachella and learned that as incredibly astounding a mash-up creation Night Ripper is on record, it pales in comparison to the manic energy of the live show. If you aren’t dancing like crazy, tearing your clothes off, and trying to climb on stage to free your inner celebutante by the end of the evening, it might be time to seek professional help.

For further proof that July is shaping up to be the best month ever — iPhone, heatwave, cold streak, Harry Potter (movie, book, rock), fireworks, et c. — look no further than the rest of the weekend. Spoon, who just released a stunningly good and sillily titled album, close out the Block Party’s main stage tomorrow and on Sunday, consistently impressive [mb] dance punks the Rapture will be warming up the crowd for rarely-touring, always outstanding, French robots Daft Punk [!!!!!!!] at the WaMu Theater (possibly with their crazy glowing pyramid? A guy can dream, right?). Rumor has it that the show’s sold out, but I have a feeling that if you showed up in an Interstella 5555 costume, you might be able to find someone willing to part with a spare ticket.

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