Seattle’s Fleet Foxes will headline Seattle’s Moore Theatre on May 3, STG Presents announced. That’s the same day the critically acclaimed alt-country band’s sophomore album “Helplessness Blues” is scheduled to hit record stores. Tickets for that show are $33 and Tickets.com will sell them beginning 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 4.

STG Presents also announced the on-sale date for post-punk legends Devo’s March 15 date at the Moore. Tickets are $38 to $100, and they’ll go on sale through Tickets.com starting 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 5.

They had other hits. But one song more than any other is guaranteed to be on the Kingsmen’s set list Saturday night at Centralia College’s Corbet Theatre.

You know the one. Richard Berry wrote it. Tacoma’s Fabulous Wailers and Lawrence “Rockin’ Robin” Roberts turned it into the party anthem we all know and love. It was a mandatory cover for just about every garage-rocker we associate with the Original Northwest Sound.
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The other day we revealed who country star John Rich was flying in for a special guest appearance during his show Saturday at Shelton’s Little Creek Casino. But also of interest is this clip featuring …

… Rich talking about reuniting with partner Big Kenny Alphin this year and their planned tour with Muzik Mafia homie Gretchen Wilson.

No Big & Rich tour schedule is posted on the band’s fan site, and Pollstar only lists a handful of dates in Minnesota, Colorado and Saskatchewan. But …

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Live Nation tells us we’ll learn who’s playing Sasquatch 2011 on Feb. 6. A festival launch party will be held at 8 p.m. that day with performances by the Thermals (recent TRC interview clips here), Das Racist andMad Rad. Comedian Todd Barry, who appeared at last year’s festival, will host the event.
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Just got off the phone with country hit machine John Rich, and he let us know about a special guest he plans to fly in for his Jan. 29 appearance at Shelton’s Little Creek Casino – none other than Skid Row front man Sebastian Bach.
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Portland’s popular punk trio, the Thermals, is headed north for a pair of big shows at Seattle’s Neumo’s (Friday) and the Northern in Oly. That second one will be open to all ages on Sunday.

We’ll have a related Q & A in this week’s GO section and the Olympian’s Weekend. Meanwhile, I figured fans might get a kick out of a few clips from my interview with drummer Westin Glass. Click the links below to hear him talk about …

… being the semi-new guy.

… recording …

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Katy Perry will headline Seattle’s KeyArena on July 20. The pop star – best known for hits “I Kissed a Girl,” “Waking Up in Vegas” and “California Gurls” – announced the North American leg of her California Dreams tour, which kicks off on June 7 in Atlanta, today on Facebook.
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Portland’s Decemberists will perform material from their just released new album, “The King Is Dead,” for National Public Radio’s web site on Wednesday, EMI announced. Fans will be able to hear an hour-long performance and interview session that will be webcast from Portland’s NPR affiliate’s studios at noon, which will be viewable at www.npr.org/music/. For local fans, that will serve as warm-up to the band’s Feb. 18 appearance at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre.

Rush will bring their Time Machine Tour back to Washington this summer. The Canadian prog-rock kings will headline the Gorge Amphitheatre in George on July 2, Live Nation announced today. Tickets will go for $45 to $110, and Live Nation and Ticketmaster will have them on sale beginning at 10 a.m. on Jan. 31.

The Time Machine Tour – which features Rush playing it’s classic album “Moving Pictures” in its entirety – stopped at Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre last August, and you can find our coverage here.