Want to relive two of the oldish- and newish-rock highlights of SP20? Mudhoney and No Age are in (actual) Seattle next week for a show to support KEXP by way of Toyota and Urban Outfitters’s FreeYrRadio promotional car-winning machinery. The show takes place at KEXP’s parking lot next week (23 July) and admission costs nothing more than the paper required to print your own invitation [pdf] ahead of time.

Prepare to make intellectual small-talk between sets by reading Sascha Frere-Jones profiled of No Age, their previous album, and a beloved run-down LA club, in that journal of provocative cover-images. [newyorker] Since then, the blissful assault of Nouns is vying for a spot on well-informed listeners’ top whatever lists to that even early devotees are nearing overload on “blind youthful optimism”. [eb]

I can think of far worse overdoses for a warm mid-summer night.