Yes, I enjoy making fun of hippies and I don’t particularly enjoying camping. However, I am very much looking forward to this weekend’s Pickathon festival just outside Portland. For three days and two nights, I will sleep on the ground in the woods (or, rahter, on a Deluxe Series Thermarest) in order to take advantage [...]
July July 30 (Friday): Phosphorescent with J. Tillman at Doug Fir $12/14 August August 2nd (Monday): Nathaniel Rateliff at Doug Fir $10/12 August 6, 7, 8 and 9: Pickathon Festival at Pendarvis Farm – preview coming this week! August 8 (Sunday): Levon Helm and Joe Pug, Oregon Zoo, $24 August 18 (Wednesday): Alejandro Escovedo, Alladin [...]
my head exploding.
Time to resume regular programming around here. To kick off summer (summer in Oregon really doesn’t start till early-mid July, folks) I bring you a slew of free music courtesy of Suburban Home Records. If you’re not familiar with Suburban Home (SH), you should remedy that. They do a stellar job of supporting/promoting a bunch [...]
If it’s been quiet around here lately, it’s because, on Saturday, June 12th, I got news that I’d lost a friend to a sudden, shocking death. Calling Tim a “friend” is like saying life is “interesting”. As I said in my Facebook post, “my friend, ex-boyfriend, partner in crime, and perennial pain-in-my-ass has died”. He [...]
1) So who are you and where did you come from? My name is Alexander Hudjohn. I’m working on 30 years of age and I was born in San Antonio, Texas. I spent my childhood in northern California and have since spent my formative years here in Portland. 2) Describe the music you make. How [...]
The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock band of all time, and Exile on Main Street is the greatest album of all time. These are positions I will defend stubbornly, like how The Band is the greatest American rock band of all time even though they are Canadian. This week, Exile on Main Street was [...]
May May 24th (Monday): Broken Bells at Wonder Ballroom $30/$34 SOLD OUT May 26th (Wednesday): Bobby Bare Jr. at Mississippi Studios $12 May 27th (Thursday): Local Natives at Mississippi Studios $10 May 30th (Sunday): Kasey Anderson at The Woods $5 May 31st (Monday): Mumford and Sons at Aladdin Theater $12 SOLD OUT June June 1st [...]
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: There’s a lot of great stuff coming out of the Midwest. I think we all know about Bon Iver, or Justin Vernon, who, in 2008, made it cool to spend an entire season in a remote Wisconsin cabin. Then there’s the promising Juniper Tar, and now Missouri-native [...]
American Aquarium’s last full-length album, 2009′s Dances for the Lonely, is full of Springsteen-esque rock and Hold Steady hooks. It ropes you in from the first few chords of the first track. It won me over pretty quick, and placed number three on my Top 20 of 2009. Their newest release, Small Town Hymns, is [...]