The third and final Sound Off! Semifinal will take place tonight at the EMP museum. If you've been paying attention to our blog, you know that we've been throwing our hat behind one band for each round of the Semifinals. So far we're a dismal zero for 2, but that's going to change tonight when the worldly Bellingham folk quartet, Cassiopeia, take home the big prize. With expansive piano and horn laced song-a-longs, the band brings to mind contemporaries Beirut, Sufjan Stevens or Devotcka. It's music that can transport you to the cobblestone streets of Eastern Europe or the sun drenched Broadways of a Middletown America during the 1950's. Tunes that causally meander from Balkan doo-wop to the classic AM radio esthetics of M.Ward. In short it's the prefect mental getaway for another typical soggy northwestern afternoon.

So good luck Cassiopeia and end our winless streak. Or else we might have to stop doing these official endorsements because of some silly "Puget Playlist Curse".