Tonight: Hey Marseilles and The Cribs

From "Q&A: What It Means When Starbucks Taps Your Band":

Seattle band Hey Marseilles has been described a number of ways--cabaret pop, lit rock, and "Li'l Decemberists" (mine) are among my favorites--but "Starbucks rock" maybe isn't a title that would be accepted with thanks. But with the septet's inclusion on the coffee giant's annual album of love songs, Sweetheart 2010, via a cover of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End," the tag is worth considering.

SW: What do you think it says about Hey Marseilles' music that Starbucks thinks their audience will drink it down?

Frontman Matt Bishop: The same thing it says when my mom and her friends love our CD, and my sister and her 4-year-old kid loves our CD, and 18-to-25-year-old women love our CD. I think it's palatable and accessible in a lot of ways, just because it's softer and it doesn't have a lot of edge, necessarily. It's pretty clean. I think that it just says that it can be appreciated by a wide variety of crowds.

The Cribs, Showbox at the Market, 8 p.m., $18, all ages

From "The Cribs: Englishmen in the Northwest":

Growing up in the small town of Wakefield in northern England, Gary Jarman dreamt of two things: Being in a big-time rock-'n'-roll band someday, and visiting the U.S.'s far-away, mysterious Pacific Northwest, where the music (from Nirvana to Beat Happening) and the culture that was defining his early teenage years came from. The Cribs made it happen. Their chemistry comes through on the Cribs' tremendous new fourth LP, Ignore the Ignorant. There are certainly echoes of the band's established sonic approach -- a marriage of angular, scrappy post-punk and craggy Strokes-style riffs -- but with Marr they've gone bigger, grander, more layered and epic, yet retaining their soul and punch.