Tag Archives: The Maldives

The Lazy Girl’s Podcast: 2010 Holidays Edition

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 [...]

Portland Show and Festival Calendar: July – October 2010

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 [...]

Rainy Day Mix

I made you a new mix. It was going to be a thematic follow-up to February with an optimistic, spring-like bent, but I don’t have many mp3s that fit that description. It also started raining again in Oregon. So here’s a random lil mix of new tunes and old favorites. Get the zip file here. [...]

Portland Show Calendar: March – May 2010

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. [...]

The Top Twenty of 2009

2009. I’ve but putting together an annual list of top ten albums for a few years now, and sending it to anyone who would read it. This year I have my own site, and with it, a few more readers and some co-conspirators in the form of The Bird List folks. I struggled more this [...]

Required Listening: The Maldives

The Maldives are the greatest nine-person Seattle band you’ve never heard of. They swing as far towards traditional country as you’re likely to find me go, drawing on the banjo, pedal steel and occasional accordion and fiddle.  They are a solid country rock outfit with stellar vocals, reminiscent of the best of Rick Danko (my [...]

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