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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Portland’s indie folk masters Horse Feathers are releasing their third album next Tuesday, April 20th, on Kill Rock Stars. Thistled Spring promises to continue their good work to date, and the promotional materials are capitalizing on the release date and album title to promise “an album of rebirth, renewal, and fragile hope.” The first single, [...]
Ellensburg, WA, is a small town in Central Washington which you will likely never have the occasion to drive through, unless you attend the Sasquatch Festival in George, Washington (really), which is something you should probably not do. Ellensburg is also home to Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs, an Americana-infused rock band whose full-length [...]
MARCH March 9 (Tuesday): Weinland, The Maldives and Or, The Whale at Doug Fir. $9/$10. March 13 (Saturday): Star Anna and Kasey Anderson at The White Eagle. $5. March 24 (Wednesday): Okkervil River at Crystal Ballroom. Free with Jack Daniels promo tickets. March 28 (Sunday): The Low Anthem and Timbre Timbre at Doug Fir. $12. [...]
In Portland, indie-pop groups composed of skinny-jeans-clad 23-year old boys seems to multiply exponentially, so it’s always refreshing to hear that some accomplished musicians are making music I might actually want to hear. Black Prairie (love that name) is composed of three members of the Decemberists – Chris Funk, Nate Query and Jenny Conlee with [...]