I was the host for Friday night’s ZooTunes concert with Brandi Carlile, so I went backstage before her set so I could go up and read some announcements and do the usual DJ jibber-jabber.

When I first went back, nobody was around — Brandi and her band were still in their trailers. But I saw this guy wandering around back there with his head down, concentrating on the screen of his phone as he did some serious texting. I said to myself, “Hmmm . . . that’s Dave Matthews!”

Just then, Brandi emerged from her trailer, we saw each other, she ran over for a hi and a hug, and we chatted for a few minutes. She was super-stoked about kicking off her tour in Seattle, and then wrapping it up at the Zoo on August 24. She promised a Carter Subaru Mountain Music Lounge visit before the August show.

Then she said, “you know Dave, don’t you?” (As a matter of fact, I don’t, although we’ve met at a couple of meet-and-greets at concerts over the years.) I asked him what he was doing at Brandi’s show — was he a fan, or was he going to do a little singing tonight? (He cracked that he was stalking her for her whole tour.) Brandi said he was going to join her for one song, and she joked about how they should do a whole album together sometime — “maybe a country record!” Dave said that’d be cool. I said, “yeah, Dave, don’t confine yourself to one musical genre.” And he replied, with fake defiance, “yeah — I won’t be put into a box!” Brandi told Dave he should join her when she comes to the Mountain Music Lounge. He said the only way he’d ever play there is if she was with him.

We’ll see how that goes . . . . but clearly these are two Northwest musical voices that sound sublime together.

This morning I asked Mountain Morning Show listeners to let me know what they were up to this weekend, in hopes of finding things other members of the Mountain tribe might latch onto.

Personally, I’m getting on my bike and riding — maybe around Lake Washington, or at least the bottom part of it — because I’m training for the Bike MS Ride on September 10-11 in Mt. Vernon, and I need to feel a little more like an iron man and a little less like a couch potato.

But that’s just me.

Here’s what people texted me:

Summerfest in Magnolia!!

Yes at the Ste Michelle Winery, Riding the Seattle Century, spending time with my daughters, planning a bachelorette party woo hoo!

Bellevue Art Fair

60 mile bike ride. Puyallup to Mudd Mt Dam RT. Training for the MS Bike America.

Going to Ethnic Fest at Wright Park in Tacoma. Noon to 6.00 Sat & Sunday

Bruce Hornsby and Bela Fleck at the Winery, tomorrow … THANKS TO MARTY AND THE MOUNTAIN!!! Thank You! :-​* B-​)

The Navins at the Tiger Lounge AGoGo! Gonna be an out door rock feat in Georgetown!

Have fun! Hugs not drugs!

This one’s been part of Death Cab For Cutie’s live setlist for a long time, but here’s a nice clean recording of their version of “Twisterella” by the English indie band Ride.

If you’re not familiar with Ride, here’s the short version of their bio from Consequence of Sound:

Formed in Oxford, UK in 1988, Ride was an alternative rock band part of the early shoegaze movement. After breaking up in 1996, founding member Andy Bell eventually went on to become a member of Oasis and Beady Eye. The band later reunited in 2001 to released a limited edition CD for the BBC. And while they’re a comparative footnote in the canon of English indie rock, Ride appealed and influenced DCFC enough for the latter to cover “Twisterella” off Ride’s 1992 Going Blank Again at a recent Codes and Keys promotional stop at BBC Radio One’s London studio.

Oh yeah, and here’s the original. Compare and contrast:

It’s a mother’s worst nightmare. Fresh-scribbed 80s icon Olivia Newton-John has a daughter — Chloe Lattanzi — who’s a budding rock star.

In the new music video for her single, “Play With Me,” the 25-year-old Chloe slithers about in deep-set makeup and proceeds to undertake a shocking string of suicidal, self-mutilating acts. She electrocutes herself while soaking in a bathtub with toaster ovens, radios and hairdryers, plays with exacto knives, shows off mangled, bruised arms and poses with a gun to head. She cries tears of blood, then snorts a line of coke and blows the dust straight into the camera’s lens in a single poof. Fun!

Watch if you want, but fair warning: It’s pretty gross, and the song is SO bad:

Okay, if you need something fresh and clean to erase those sounds and images from your brain, enjoy this, You’re welcome:

You know that Nirvana’s Nevermind is 20 years old this September, right? Here’s a glimpse at the album’s beginnings — demos and studio outtakes from the album that changed everything, thanks to a blogger/Nirvana fanatic who calls himself Captains Dead.

Inspired by a thing I saw on Huffington Post, I asked Mountain Morning Show listeners to text me their grossest words — not words with gross meanings (although in some cases it worked out that way) but words that just sound gross and ugly.

Here’s the list — see if you agree. Enjoy!

smegma

douche

crotch

squat

phlegm

sphincter

wiener

curdled

enema

maggots

spittle

saliva

fester

vagina

gonad

snot

ointment

moist

penetration

and . . .

scrotum

Thanks for the list! I feel kinda queasy.

CityArts is a huge music festival October 20-22 that spans a bunch of venues around Seattle with an eclectic lineup: Ryan Adams, Built to Spill, Ozomatli, The Long Winters, Mudhoney, Shelby Lynne, Robyn, Fences, and many many more.

Three -Day, All Access Wristbands starting at $69 on sale NEXT Friday, August 5th at 10 a.m. That gets you into all the venues, all weekend long. Cool! Get all the details and tickets here.

They like to go big. Here’s Coldplay doing “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” at England’s ginormous Glastonbury Festival:

Here’s good news for Who fans (like me.)

Despite reports from Roger Daltrey that Pete Townshend’s hearing is preventing him from touring, Pete says that The Who will indeed tour next year. According to a post on Townshend’s blog, they’re going to take the legendary Quadrophenia album out on the road.

“The reason I am not on the road with Roger is that this is entirely Roger’s adventure, one that is bringing him great joy,” Townshend wrote. “I don’t belong on this Tommy tour. I wish him well, sincerely, and I look forward to playing with Roger again doing Quadrophenia next year.”

Townshend disputed Daltrey’s comment that a tour would destroy his hearing.

“My hearing is actually better than ever,” he wrote. “Because after a feedback scare at the O2 Indigo in December 2008 I am taking good care of it. I’m 66, I don’t have perfect hearing, and if I listen to loud music or go to gigs I do tend to get tinnitus. DON’T WE ALL????”

I always thought Quadrophenia was an underrated album that never got the same respect as Tommy, so this is good. And it almost goes without saying that Pete is also working on a deluxe re-release of Quadrophenia, just in time for the tour.

Here’s a band that’s known more for their music videos than for their actual music. They did the groundbreaking “treadmill” video a few years ago, and more recently a crazy complicated Rube Goldberg-esque one-take extravaganza. Both videos, great. The songs themselves, meh. My tip for OK Go: Stop making music and just make videos . . . . open a video production company — you’ll get rich!

For this one, “All Is Not Lost,” the band teamed up with the Pilobolus dance troupe. Here’s what the New York Times said:

“[Front man Damian] Kulash says that having Pilobolus work on the band’s concept was ‘’like asking a superchef to make green beans,’ and Itamar Kubovy, the executive director of Pilobolus, returns the compliment. ‘This cool result needed an enormous amount of calculation,’ he says. ‘And these OK Go guys led beautifully.’”

(BTW, if you’re browsing with Google Chrome, there’s a cool interactive version of the video at www.allisnotlo.st)

If you do like the song itself, you can download it free here.

And here’s a peek behind the scenes at the making of the video: