If there is such a thing as an alt.country/Americana/whatever buzz band, this year it was Shovels & Rope. Heading to Pickathon this year, I was mostly excited to reunite with my Portland folks and drink during the afternoon for a few days. But Shovels & Rope was high on my short list of bands [...]
August 5-7 at Pendarvis Farm near Portland, OR. Tickets and the info can now be found at www.pickathon.com. Not to be missed!
Yes, it’s been eleventy-three months since Pickathon and I’ve been slacking on keeping up with the blog. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t draw your attention to my other favorite discovery of that weekend, Toronto’s Elliott Brood. I’ll didn’t put Elliott Brood on my must-see list for that weekend but on Sunday morning, while [...]
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 [...]
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, rather, on a Deluxe Series Thermarest) in order to take advantage [...]
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Posted 01 August 2010
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Also tagged: Bonnie Prince Billy, Chatham County Line, Cotton Jones, Heartless Bastards, Little Wings, Portland, Richmond Fontaine and Black Prairie., Roadside Graves, Sam Quinn, The Cave Singers, The Deep Dark Woods, Typhoon
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 [...]