One year. Thirty albums. Two sentences. An mp3. Here are numbers 21-30 (in order from A to Z). First Aid Kit – The Big Black & The Blue Annoyingly precocious Swedish teenage sisters pen some surprisingly compelling, quirky folk music. We should all move to Sweden. First Aid Kit: Hard Believer Lindsay Fuller – The [...]
If I haven’t talked to you in the last 30 seconds, you may not know that I hate hate hate this time of year. It’s somehow particularly gloomy and dark in the Pacific NW this year. Instead of our regular light, umbrella-not-needed mist, we’ve got flash floods and sideways rain. A tornado touched down in [...]
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Posted 14 December 2010
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Favorite Artists § Lazy Girl's Podcast § Mixes § Pacific Northwest Artists
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Also tagged: Austin Lucas, Chuck Ragan, Dolorean, Leonard Cohen, Link Wray, Morphine, Portland, Say Hi, Six Organs of Admittance, The Jayhawks, The Last Town Chorus, The Maldives, weather
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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Also tagged: Alexander Hudjohn, Blue Giant, Bobby Bare Jr., Broken Social Scene, Dawes, Deer Tick, Frightened Rabbit, I Can Lick Any SOB, J.Roddy, Joe Pug, Junip, Mumford and Sons, Phosphorescent, Portland Concerts, Portland Shows, The Frames, Two Cow Garage, Typhoon
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, [...]
Horse Feathers is one of my favorite Portland bands to emerge in the last few years. Loosely described as indie folk, they create sparse, atmospheric music that somehow manages to sound full and lush at the same time. Most of their tunes are mellow, but they maintain a level of energy that makes both their [...]