This band is my new favorite find. Goodnight, Texas is a bi-coastal outfit led by Avi Vinocur (San Francisco) and Patrick Dyer Wolf (North Carolina) named after a ghost town equidistant between them. Their excellent debut album, A Long Life of Living, is about as Americana as it gets. Vintage, sepia-tinged artwork. References to Maggie’s [...]
Lydia Loveless is an impossibly precocious 21-year old reminiscent of an early Neko Case — if Neko had been using amphetamines. Growing up in “a small weird town” outside Columbus, OH, she turned to music as a teenager and hasn’t looked back. Loveless’s sound is in-you-face-twangy with a punk sensibility, but what really catches your [...]
Ha Ha Tonka is one of my favorite discoveries of the last handful of years. As someone* once described them, “remember what the Kings of Leon sounded like before Kings of Leon sucked?”. Ha Ha Tonka is four scruffy dudes from the Ozarks, most of whom wear cowboy boots. The band is named after a [...]
January January 7 (Friday) Celilo and Parson Red Heads at Mississippi Studios – $10 January 7 (Friday) Casey Neill and Lindsay Fuller at Doug Fir – $10 January 14 (Friday) Peter Wolf Crier at Doug Fir – $10 January 21 (Friday) Root Jack at Dante’s – $5 and 3 cans of food for OR Food [...]
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Posted 04 January 2011
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Tagged: Alexander Hudjohn, Celilo, Cotton Jones, Drunken Prayer, Justin Townes Earle, Lindsay Fuller, Parson Red Heads, Peter Wolf Crier, Portland Concerts, Portland Shows, Riveria, Ryan Bingham, Say Hi, The Decemberists, The Old 97's, The Radop Dept., Truckstop Darlin', Truth & Salvage Co.
October October 4 and 5 (Tuesday and Wednesday), Black Keys, Crystal Ballroom, SOLD OUT October 5 (Tuesday): Besnard Lakes and Land of Talk, Mississippi Studios, $12 October 6 (Wednesday): Cowboy Junkies with The Watson Twins, at Aladdin Theater, $35 October 7 (Thursday): Alexander Hudjohn at Twilight Cafe October 8 (Wednesday): Typhoon at Mississippi Studios, $10 [...]
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Posted 26 September 2010
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Tagged: Alexander Hudjohn, Blue Giant, Bobby Bare Jr., Broken Social Scene, Dawes, Deer Tick, Frightened Rabbit, Horse Feathers, I Can Lick Any SOB, J.Roddy, Joe Pug, Junip, Mumford and Sons, Phosphorescent, Portland Concerts, Portland Shows, The Frames, Two Cow Garage, Typhoon
I’d been tracking The Roadside Graves for a while now, and even ranked their last full-length, LP, My Son’s Home, in my Top 20 of 2009. They’ve been on a roll since then, releasing the fantastic EP, You Won’t Be Happy With Me, earlier this year. So they’d been on my must-see list for Pickathon [...]
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 [...]
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Posted 25 July 2010
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Tagged: Broken Social Scene, Builders and the Butchers, Frightened Rabbit, Joe Pug, Levon Helm, Nathaniel Rateliff, Portland Concerts, Portland Festival, The Black Keys, The Gaslight Anthem, The Hold Steady, The Maldives, Willie Nelson
The third Saturday of April is now officially Record Store Day, when “independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music”, or, presumably, to get people off the internet and back into record stores. I’m as guilty as the next girl of neglecting my beloved independent music store (that’s you, [...]
Mumford and Sons is a four-piece band from London and one of my favorite discoveries of the last month or two. Their full-length Sigh No More will would definitely be comfortably near the top of my 2010 albums list –if it hadn’t been released in 2009. Not surprisingly, they seem to have been getting a [...]