I was browsing the KEXP blog today after they announced that leafblower faves Pela recorded a live, in-studio performance that will be broadcast next Monday in the a.m. when I found this. How awesome does this sound?

July 14:
Good/Bad Archive Project & 9003 KEXP presents Rock Lottery 3- a benefit for The Vera Project featuring members of Tall Birds, Aqueduct, Raz Rez, The Lashes, Harvey Danger, Damian Jurado and many more! at Neumo's
Doors: music starts 10PM
Age: 21+
Tix: Ticketswest.com

Twenty-five hand picked musicians meet at 10:00AM at the evening's performance venue. These volunteers are organized into five bands through a lottery based chance selection. The five different groups are then released to practice at different locations. The musicians have twelve hours to create a band name and three to five songs (with a one cover song limit). The bands will then return to the venue and perform what they have created in front of a waiting audience. The twenty-five musicians included in this experiment are carefully selected in an attempt to represent a wide variety of musical styles. This event will bring together many facets of the music community that may seem incompatible, as well as musicians whose interests may conflict. The challenge for these participants is to try and go beyond their personal and musical differences and work together to create a unified group project that still contains the personal styles of each of its members.

Best! Anyhoo, a few photos from Pela's show last week in San Fran are up over on Flickr. Also, according to KEXP and unbeknownst to me, "In fact, Pela’s first EP 'All In Time' was released by Brassland, co-owned by The National’s Aaron Dressner, and Pela guitarist Nate Martinez sometimes tours with the Brooklyn compatriots." Pela + The National? Wow.

Pela is also playing the KEXP BBQ in August, which may provide Ms. Smith and I the excuse we've been looking for to make a trip to Northwest.
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