Nope, sure isn't. For fans of scenester music (don't feel like calling it "indie" today), Capitol Hill Block Party is hands down the best city festival in America this summer, rivaled only by Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, which it beats by virtue of how perfect 10th & Pike is for party central. That intersection wants to party so bad.

All year leading up to CHBP, every time there's a concert at Neumo's and also across the street at the Comet, tension builds in the intersection. Party tension. Cars are there, cops are there, bikes are there...but no party. You can stand in the middle of the street and try to party at 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday night, but you'll just die or get arrested. And so the party tension builds all year. Builds, builds, builds. And then breaks for Block Party like a monsoon rain cloud.

Which bands will you see? What time conflicts are totally killing you? (D. Black, Fatal Lucciauno, and Spaceman at the same time as Sonic Youth?! I have to pick Sonic Youth, but it kills me to do that...) How angry are you that your 20-year-old younger brother can't go with you to watch Truckasauras because it's in a 21+ environment (for the second year in a row!)?

Full schedule after the jump. Bolded shows are ones I think will be best. My plan's not set in stone, but you better believe I'll hit this thing hard. I'm bringing a video fleet, a notepad, and gallons of potable water.

Friday July 24
Doors @ 3:00 pm

Main Stage :: All Ages
4:30 - The Dutchess and The Duke, myspace.com/thedutchessandtheduke
5:30 - Spinnerette, spinnerettemusic.com
6:30 - Black Lips, black-lips.com
7:45 - Deerhunter, myspace.com/deerhunter
9:15 - Built to Spill, myspace.com/builttospill
10:45 - The Jesus Lizard, myspace.com/thejesuslizard

Neumos :: 21+
4:00 - Sgt Major III, myspace.com/sgtmajortheband
5:00 - Band of Skulls, bandofskulls.com/
6:15 - The Blakes, myspace.com/theblakes
7:45 - Sleepy Eyes of Death, sleepyeyesofdeath.com
9:00 - Earth, myspace.com/earthofficial
10:30 - They Live!, myspace.com/theylive206
11:45 - Sing Sing Reunion, myspace.com/singsinguk

Vera Stage :: All Ages
4:00 - Audacity, myspace.com/audacityca
5:00 - Flexions, myspace.com/flexions
6:00 - Bow+Arrow, myspace.com/thebowandarrow
7:00 - Micachu & The Shapes, myspace.com/micayomusic
8:00 - Past Lives, myspace.com/pastlivesmusic
9:00 - Starfucker, myspace.com/starfuckerss
10:00 - Mika Miko, myspace.com/mikamiko

Saturday July 25
Doors 1:00pm

Main Stage :: All Ages
2:00 - Hey Marseilles, heymarseilles.com
3:15 - Moondoggies, myspace.com/themoondoggies
4:30 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
6:00 - PELA, myspace.com/pela
7:30 - The Thermals, thethermals.com
9:00 - The Gossip, thegossipmusic.com
10:30 - Sonic Youth, sonicyouth.com

Neumos Stage :: 21+
2:00 - Awesome Color, myspace.com/awesomecolor
3:00 - Hotels, myspace.com/hotels
4:00 - Girls, myspace.com/thegirlsseattle
5:15 - Akimbo, myspace.com/akimbo
6:30 - The Maldives, themaldivesmusic.com
7:45 - Truckasauras, myspace.com/teapartiesgunsnvalor
9:00 - Future of The Left, futureoftheleft.com
10:30 - Sportn' Life Show Case feat D.Black, Fatal Lucciauno, Spaceman, myspace.com/sportnliferecords
11:30 - Faux Punk, myspace.com/fauxpunknow

Vera Stage :: All Ages
1:00 - Wild Orchid Children, myspace.com/wildorchidchildren
2:30 - Pica Beats, www.thepicabeats.com
3:30 - Fences, myspace.com/fencesvswolf
4:45 - New Faces, myspace.com/newfacesband
6:00 - SOL, myspace.com/solzilla
7:15 - The Lonely Forest, myspace.com/thelonelyforest
8:30 - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, myspace.com/edwardsharpe
9:45 - Japandroids, myspace.com/japandroids