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Up-and-coming Seattle soul band Pickwick played a solid show for a good-sized crowd at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend Thursday night. I’ll have more thoughts on it in Friday’s GO! Magazine in The Bulletin, but for now, here are a few videos I shot of the guys in action. The first is one [...]
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Because of those social media sharing buttons to the right of this text, I always try to think of something to write up here to push the video down the page a bit. It just looks a lot better than trying to shrink or move the video to work within the layout. But sometimes, I [...]
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Attention folks who like to moooove to live music: If you play your cards right, you could turn tonight into an epic, all-night dance party without ever leaving downtown Bend! First, at 7 p.m., get down to the new-school soul of Seattle’s Pickwick at McMenamins Old St. Francis School. It’s free. We wrote about ‘em [...]
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In the Community Life section of today’s Bulletin, I have a long story on Marc Parnell and his famous “road loaf,” which he makes from scratch and gives to touring and local musicians playing in Bend. If you’ve been to a concert around here in the past few years, you’ll almost certainly recognize Marc; he [...]
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Slowly but surely, folks, we’re coming out of the holiday show slowdown. There are several solid options over the next seven days, including a very busy Thursday night. First up, a band that could very well blow up big in 2012: Seattle indie-soul band Pickwick will play a free show at McMenamins on Thursday night. [...]
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How ’bout a quick roundup of new music or moving pictures from locally rooted artists? Here we go: –Local hip-hop sage Mosley Wotta released a new EP called “Amalgam X” on New Year’s Eve, and now it’s on Soundcloud. Take it for a spin right here! AMALGAM X by MOsleyWOtta Also, OPB Radio recently did [...]
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Continuing the Great Frequency Radio Blitz of Late 2011, I’ll join Rick Miller, TK and Dennis Plant on KPOV’s Center Stage program today from 2 to 4 p.m. to talk about the local music scene in 2011 and play some songs. If you’re in Central Oregon, try tuning in at 88.9 FM on your radio [...]
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New Year’s Eve + a Saturday night = party time That’s the situation this weekend as one of the year’s most festive holidays coincides with the most party-friendly night of the week, and I suspect the result will be a very crowded and crazy bunch of New Year’s Eve events around Central Oregon. Fortunately, there [...]
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I totally forgot to mention this Monday and Tuesday (I blame the peppermint bark haze I was living in at the time) but Dori Donoho — host of the excellent Homegrown music show on Clear 101.7 FM and all-around awesome supporter of local music — was nice enough to have me as a guest for [...]
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Four things: 1) I saw a lot of live music in 2011, and below you’ll find reviews, videos and photos of my 11 favorite concerts of the year, plus links to more on each. 2) You’ll note, perhaps, that these happened at 11 different venues in Central Oregon. I thought that was cool. 3) Why [...]
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For some reason, Saturday’s show by local post-rock faves Empty Space Orchestra at Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom didn’t run in our live-music listings in today’s GO! Magazine. Not sure why. But the show is definitely happening, although the previously announced opener — Portland’s White Orange — had to cancel to deal with a family [...]
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This week’s music section is like a giant, gaudy neon sign flashing the word “CHRISTMAS!” two feet in front of your face! There are a bunch of holiday concerts in town this week, and we feature six of them: –Jazz fusioneers Spyro Gyra at On a Lite Christmas Nite –Throwback harp-guitarist John Doan does his [...]
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It’s well-documented that I’m a huge, hopeless music geek, and I love lists. So even though I spent three pages in The Bulletin’s GO! Magazine pontificating about my favorite records of 2011, I still can’t resist the urge to (A) rank them, and (B) get them all in one place online. So here we are. [...]
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More specifically, headlining WinterFest and playing the WinterFringe after-party at Century Center. Per the website: I don’t know a ton about Buck 65, other than the fact that he’s got plenty of fans around here. MarchFourth and The Coup are both rad. Great lineup this year. Er … next year.
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In case you missed it: Near/Far is The Bulletin’s free, legal, two-disc compilation of some of the best songs of the year. The 2011 version — all 36 tracks of it, including Fleet Foxes, Yuck, Washed Out, Other Lives, The War on Drugs, Shabazz Palaces, Larry and His Flask, Laurel Brauns, Empty Space Orchestra, Erin [...]
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You may have seen this already, but it’s worth posting to make sure as many people see it as possible and are keeping an eye out. Copied directly from a post on Random Presents’ Facebook: This is our first official MANHUNT brought to you by Random Presents and Midtown Music Hall! Sometime between the end [...]
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In this week’s GO! Magazine, we have four full pages dedicated to the favorite musical things — albums, concerts, instruments, whatever — of those closest to Central Oregon’s music scene in 2011. Four full pages sounds like a lot, until you realize that I received more than 40 submissions this year in response to my [...]
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When you fill the first 13 page of GO! Magazine with a review of the year in music in Central Oregon, as we did today, you don’t leave much room to talk about all the music that’s happening in the area this week. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth talking about! Here’s a roundup [...]
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Well hello there, music aficionado! Somehow, some way, you’ve landed at the Frequency blog and Near/Far, The Bulletin’s online hub for coverage of 2011′s best music. Here, we’ve collected three dozen of the finest tunes of the past 12 months from both local and national acts and created a two-disc compilation of free, legal MP3s [...]
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Despite the recent, unseasonably mild weather, summer concert season at Les Schwab Amphitheater is a long way off, but that doesn’t mean we can’t (A) dream of what artists might be part of the lineup in 2012 (the Schwab’s 10th anniversary, by the way), (B) tell the folks who book the amphitheater who we’d like [...]
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Timothy B. Schmit has done a lot in his music career. Most famously, he plays bass and sings in The Eagles. He also was a member of the ’70s country-rock band Poco. He replaced the same guy in both bands! And get this: While playing in Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, Schmit coined the term [...]
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Musically speaking, this is a busy, busy, busy Thursday evening in our fair burg, with interesting options whether you want to go out or stay in. Let’s get to it: At The Sound Garden, the Davis, Calif.-based pop-rock band Calling Morocco plays at around 8 p.m. Cover is $5. Here’s how I described ‘em last [...]
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Here we go again! It’s the last week of November and I’m officially hard at work on my annual review of the year in local music. That means I’m scrambling around, looking high and low to make sure I know about everything that happened, musically, in Central Oregon in 2011. That includes recordings by local [...]
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Last winter, the Jazz at the Oxford series had a terrific inaugural season, bringing a handful of regional jazz veterans to Bend and selling out each of its 13 shows. Tonight, the series kicks off its second season, which features an expanded schedule and headliners with higher profiles, including award-winning jazz-pop vocalist Diane Schuur, who’ll [...]
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Share this post:TweetI’m thankful for a lot of things personally, but as far as this blog goes, I’m thankful for those of you that read my words, watch the videos, listen to the music, look at the photos and just generally pay attention to this little corner of the internet. It takes some time and [...]
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Share this post:TweetI’m not going to sit here and pretend that I’m some High on Fire superfan or whatever. But I have to say: I’m as stoked for their show at the Domino Room Saturday night as I have been for any show ’round here in a long time. Why? I’m not 100-percent sure. I [...]
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Share this post:TweetI’ve got four Silipint cups on my desk right now that have the GO! Magazine logo on one side and the lineup for the 2011 Les Schwab Amphitheater season on the other, and I think I want to give ‘em away. (I said five on Facebook and Twitter, but one is already gone!) [...]
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Share this post:TweetThat’s how my friend Ryan described Saturday’s High on Fire show at the Domino Room to a table full of non-metalheads last weekend at Deschutes Brewery. I’ve lived here nearly six years and Ryan has lived here a little longer than that, but not, like, forever. Regardless, I am going to go ahead [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis is pretty good … probably helps if you’re familiar with “Someone Like You” by Adele, but maybe not. Maybe it’s funny regardless. However, I don’t watch “Friday Night Lights,” so that joke didn’t really resonate with me. Oh pop culture … so many things! Things to keep up with! Nice cameo by [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Note: Oops, I meant to post this yesterday. Apologies to the Friday events that have now already happened.) First of all, if you love music, Central Oregon, music in Central Oregon, or you just love having things to do in Central Oregon even if they’re not related to music, you should check out [...]
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Share this post:TweetPretty much all you need to know is in the subject line. Longtime Frequency fave Erin Cole-Baker is moving to New Zealand (where she grew up) on Monday, so her set at tonight’s Maiden Bend Music Fest at the Tower Theatre is the last time she’ll play here for quite a while. Bummer [...]
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Share this post:TweetI’m a huge nerd. So I went through my iTunes and picked out a bunch of my favorite “track 11″ songs … you know, like they were the 11th track on their album … and compiled them into five different YouTube playlists. So there are 55 songs here (all track 11s), and they’re [...]
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Share this post:TweetI get more requests for album reviews, I think, than anything else. I’d love to do them. I’d love to do a ton of them, both in print and here on Frequency. I’ve been wanting to do them since I took this job. There have been a few different obstacles over the years, [...]
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Share this post:TweetPause. Playback, rewind. Pause. Collie Buddz’s music isn’t normally my thing, necessarily, but I am addicted to this song. It’s hypnotic! On Wednesday night, Buddz will drop into the Domino Room in Bend for a night of reggae-infused club-pop. My colleague David Jasper spoke with him and his alluring Bermudan accent last week. [...]
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Share this post:TweetLast time Rubblebucket was in town, I went and saw them, steeling myself against a letdown. The hype around their previous show here (at The Bite of Bend) was loud enough to I figured they couldn’t possibly live up to it. But they’re a very, very, very good and fun band, especially live. [...]
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Share this post:TweetBecause of the party hearty nature of Halloween weekend — and the sheer number of bands playing ‘ween-themed shows over the next few nights — we’re going to venture outside of the music section this week into GO! Magazine’s cover story, which features not 20 … not 30 … not 40 … but [...]
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Share this post:TweetMy review of Monday’s Felice Brothers concert at Silver Moon Brewing is in today’s GO! Magazine in The Bulletin, and here are some bonus photos and videos of the show. The photos were taken by The Bulletin’s Rob Kerr, and the videos were shot by me. Enjoy!
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Share this post:TweetWatching Danny Barnes play the banjo is a sweet, sublime experience. The alt-country veteran — a former Bad Liver and current Dave Matthews associate — possesses an endearing blend of virtuosic skill and experimental eccentricity that, when combined with his soft-spoken style and goofy, ever-present grin, makes for a very mellow but mind-bending [...]
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Share this post:TweetHow much music can you cram into the music section of The Bulletin’s GO! Magazine? Approximately this much: “The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959″ is a multimedia tribute to the jazz icon coming to the Tower Theatre. The Felice Brothers could’ve hopped on the “new Americana” gravy train and they chose not to. Instead, [...]
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On the Rocks will perform at Sisters High School on Oct. 22. We’ll have a short story in Friday’s GO! Magazine, but in the meantime, here’s a press release from the Sisters Starry Nights folks with all the details: From “The Sing Off” to Starry Nights: On the Rocks Comes to Sisters on October 22 [...]
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Share this post:TweetWe’re entering an incredibly busy few weeks on the Central Oregon music scene, especially considering it’s mid-October, a time when local stages used to go virtually quiet. No more. So I recruited a little help to cover everything going on this week. Below, you’ll find links to our interviews with the rapper Afroman, [...]
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Share this post:TweetMinneapolis-based power duo the Birthday Suits will light up The Horned Hand Monday (8 p.m., $2-5 suggested donation) with their explosive live show, a wild and kinetic spectacle that has drawn comparisons to Mt. Punkmore acts like the Ramones and the Stooges. Birthday Suits aren’t quite punk, though; certainly the energy and tempo [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis one’s for the underground metal nerds: Heavy-as-a-stone headbangers High on Fire are playing the Domino Room in Bend on Nov. 19. The band — fronted by Matt Pike of the revered metal band Sleep — plays a pretty awesome blend of chugging traditional metal and druggy stoner/doom stuff, with fantasy elements that [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Thanks to a busy schedule, it’s been a month since MusicfestNW took over Portland and I still haven’t published daily recaps of my experience. My bad. Still, I think seeing 20 of the coolest bands going over three days is worth documenting, even belatedly. So below, you’ll find Day 3. Day 1 is [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Thanks to a busy schedule, it’s been a month since MusicfestNW took over Portland and I still haven’t published daily recaps of my experience. My bad. Still, I think seeing 20 of the coolest bands going over three days is worth documenting, even belatedly. So below, you’ll find Day 2; find Day 1 [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Thanks to a busy schedule, it’s been a month since MusicfestNW took over Portland and I still haven’t published daily recaps of my experience. My bad. Still, I think seeing 20 of the coolest bands going over three days is worth documenting, even belatedly. So below, you’ll find Day 1, and be sure [...]
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Portland soul-pop band Dirty Mittens are making the trek over to Bend for the first time for a show at McMenamins on Wednesday. I spoke with frontwoman Chelsea Morrisey about her band’s fine new album “Heart of Town” and making music in the 21st century. Here’s an excerpt: “It’s a world where, when you have [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe Horned Hand has an evening full of rustic indie-folk music tonight with local band Rural Demons, plus Coloradans The Ghost of Michael Clark and The Changing Colors. Things will get going shortly after 8 p.m. and cover is $5. Here’s what I wrote about The Changing Colors in last week’s GO! Magazine: [...]
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Share this post:TweetLocal musician and all-around cool dude Joe Leonardi was reunited with some of his old buddies from his hometown of Valley Stream, New York a couple of weekends ago. The three men — who hadn’t talked to or seen their friend in nearly 50 years — found Leonardi on Facebook a few months [...]
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Share this post:TweetWhile working on this week’s music stuff for GO! Magazine, I studied up on Delhi 2 Dublin, a collective of global villagers who take Irish fiddles and Indian drums and vocals, run ‘em through dance-friendly electronic beats, and turn out a pretty fresh, interesting sound. The band will be at the Domino Room [...]
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Share this post:TweetYou know, when you think about it, you have to feel for folks like Julian and Sean Lennon, Hank Williams Jr. and III, and Ziggy and Damian Marley — artists who are the children (or descendents) of music icons. It’s just not really very fair, is it? They may be very talented and [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Find all our coverage of the 2011 Bend Roots Revival, including a preview of the event and recaps of all three days, by clicking here.) As if it was determined to present a well-rounded microcosm of life in Bend, the Bend Roots Revival’s third day brought about much cooler temperatures and, with them, [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Find all our coverage of the 2011 Bend Roots Revival, including a preview of the event and recaps of all three days, by clicking here.) Sometimes it seems like my Twitter feed is full of nothing but Bendites who go to every single event in this town, floating from free concert to art [...]
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Share this post:TweetNirvana released “Nevermind” 20 years ago today. Sept. 24, 1991. I was 15. For some large percentage of the world’s population, this anniversary doesn’t mean much. And for some smaller, more cynical group of people, it means another chance to roll their eyes whenever someone begins to wax poetic about the album and [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Find all our coverage of the 2011 Bend Roots Revival, including a preview of the event and recaps of all three days, by clicking here.) Thanks to a previous commitment and then a last-minute decision to go see Subliminal play Nirvana’s “Nevermind” in its entirety (more on that later), I wasn’t able to [...]
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Share this post:TweetOver the past six years, the Bend Roots Revival has grown from a small gathering of local artists jamming in and around Parrilla Grill and The Victorian Cafe to one of Central Oregon’s biggest and best music events and a vital celebration of local arts that takes over the Century Center for an [...]
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Share this post:TweetI was hoping to find room for this in tomorrow’s GO! Magazine, but we ran out of space. So to the blog it goes! Helluva show Saturday night at The Horned Hand in Bend, featuring one of the best local punk bills I can remember in my five years here. Tuck and Roll [...]
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Share this post:TweetI’ll just copy and paste from today’s issue of The Bulletin. Tonight’s concert by Indiana twang-rock band Murder By Death has been moved to the Domino Room (51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend). If you already purchased tickets to see the band at The Horned Hand, your tickets will be honored. The move means [...]
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Share this post:TweetCiting “capacity issues” (which, frankly, have existed since the second this show was booked; it’s not like venue got smaller in recent weeks) (OK, I’m retracting that statement because I was reminded that while venues generally don’t physically shrink, their legal capacity certainly can. More on this as soon as I can get [...]
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Share this post:TweetSaturday night’s show at The Horned Hand is a local punk fan’s dream: three quality bands of good dudes who play three very different styles. Tuck & Roll will bring the bouncy pop-punk, The Confederats come straight outta the old school and Larry and His Flask will close the night with their increasingly [...]
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Share this post:TweetSeptember is a big month on the local music scene, with the Sisters Folk Festival last weekend and the Bend Roots Revival next. But the week in between isn’t exactly an opportunity to take a breather. We’ve got a CD-release show from a longtime local, a bunch of great roots-rock shows, some jazz [...]
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Share this post:Tweet I’ve spent a lot of the past couple weeks listening to artists playing the 2011 Sisters Folk Festival, and I believe this is the deepest pool of talent ever at the event. You can find all our coverage by clicking here. But I want to draw your attention to one act in [...]
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Share this post:TweetHooray! As far as the Central Oregon music scene goes, one of the biggest weekends of the year is here as the Sisters Folk Festival takes over that little town 20 or so miles up U.S. Highway 20. Today’s GO! Magazine in The Bulletin has everything you need to know, including ticket info [...]
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Share this post:TweetMy memory on this one is a little fuzzy, but this I know for sure: At some point in the past, present or future (probably the past), John Wesley Coleman and Rayon Beach played The Horned Hand in Bend, and I was there with my little video camera to capture the clatter. I’m [...]
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Share this post:TweetLiterally hours after ending her set at Les Schwab Amphitheater last night, Brandi Carlile announced today that she’ll return to Bend’s Tower Theatre on Dec. 19. Tickets are already on sale to Tower members and will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday. Visit the Tower’s website or Random [...]
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Share this post:TweetA few months ago, I told you all about local MC and Cloaked Character Jay Tablet‘s new solo album “Put It On the Tab.” Over the weekend, the generous Mr. Tab made that album available as a free download. It even includes a few bonus tracks, I believe. Click here to grab it! [...]
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Share this post:TweetRoots-rock megastar Ray LaMontagne is playing in Bend next week, but the notoriously press shy singer-songwriter declined my request for an interview. I won’t lie, it hurt a little bit. UNTIL … (this is called a cliffhanger, please scroll down) I SCORED AN INTERVIEW WITH RAY LAMONTAGNE’S BEARD!!! That made me feel way [...]
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Share this post:TweetLocal post-rock heroes Empty Space Orchestra have just released a new EP called “Dark Matters” and it contains a couple of new songs that are available for free download at their Bandcamp site. Click here to grab ‘em. The band performed one of those tracks, the jarring, jet-fueled “New Breed of Skank,” in [...]
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Share this post:TweetSmoke be damned, the weather’s about to get cooler, and tonight’s as good a night as any for a cold brew and some great local music. Tonight at GoodLife Brewing Co. in the Century Center (70 S.W. Century Drive, Bend), local Americana powerhouse Moon Mountain Ramblers will play the third week of their [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe popular and prolific singer-songwriter Ben Harper returns to Bend tonight for the first time in more than five years. And lucky us, he’s currently touring behind the best album of his long career, “Give Till It’s Gone,” which was released in May. Here’s Harper doing one of the intensely raw and personal [...]
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Share this post:TweetRemember when I encouraged you to support local community radio station KPOV‘s effort to increase its signal strength? Well, it worked! Today’s Bulletin has a short bit on it: Beginning today, High Desert Community Radio, KPOV FM, will have a new position at the left of the dial at 88.9 FM. KPOV got [...]
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Share this post:TweetMonday nights are generally pretty sleepy in Bend, but tonight isn’t playing along. Besides the Kottonmouth Kings show at the Domino Room, a couple of downtown bars are hosting bands that are worth your time. They’re also worth more ink than they got in last week’s GO! Magazine, but I didn’t know about [...]
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Share this post:TweetAll-event passes for the Sisters Folk Festival are available now through the event’s website, www.sistersfolkfestival.org. But you’ll have to wait until Friday to get single-day passes for the fest, taking place Sept. 9-11 at several venues in Sisters. The fest will bring a slew of musicians to Sisters for performances, workshops, a song [...]
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Share this post:TweetGood stuff in the section this week. Read these, won’t you? Rising Brazilian electro-pop star Luisa Maita. My review of Tuesday’s show by The Shins. The John Butler Trio at Clear Summer Nights. The Devil Whale and The Parson Red Heads at McMenamins. And an update on the Sisters Starry Nights organization, how [...]
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Share this post:TweetMy plan for this space was to write an extensive review of country star Dierks Bentley’s concert Wednesday at Les Schwab Amphitheater. But circumstances have conspired against me, not the least of which is a general ambivalence about the show. So here are a few brief thoughts, and then I’ll get out of [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis week features a ridiculous number of opportunities to catch quality live music in Central Oregon, so I’m highlighting some of the best options for each night. But remember, you can always find lots more at The Bulletin’s online event calendar. Tonight’s treat is a free show at Munch & Music by powerful [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis week features a ridiculous number of opportunities to catch quality live music in Central Oregon, so I’m highlighting some of the best options for each night. But remember, you can always find lots more at The Bulletin’s online event calendar. Tonight brings the biggest country act of the summer, Dierks Bentley, to [...]
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Share this post:TweetPop-rock perfectionist James Mercer brought the latest incarnation of The Shins to Bend’s Domino Room Tuesday night as part of a three-night mini-tour that’s notable for two reasons. First, the venues are all Oregon clubs that are considerably cozier than the places the band normally plays. And second, these are the first full-band [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis week features a ridiculous number of opportunities to catch quality live music in Central Oregon, so I’m highlighting some of the best options for each night. But remember, you can always find lots more at The Bulletin’s online event calendar. Your best bet for this fine Tuesday evening is to see indie [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis week features a ridiculous number of opportunities to catch quality live music in Central Oregon. Over the next four days, I’ll highlight some of the best options for that night, but you can always find lots more at The Bulletin’s online event calendar. Here are your best bets for this fine Monday [...]
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Share this post:TweetRidiculous amount of live music in Central Oregon this week. No no no … make that … RIDONKULOUS. (I just made that word up. If you think you have heard it before that was probably a dream.) Anyway, here goes: REO Speedwagon (tonight) and Joan Jett (Saturday) play the Deschutes County Fair. Click [...]
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Share this post:TweetI had grand hopes of writing a bit about Portland-based chamber-folk-pop band Loch Lomond‘s show at Silver Moon on July 20 to accompany the three videos below. But I put it off for a day, and then days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into … well, it’s basically been forever since the [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe thing I love about The Horned Hand — the new art/retail/music space on Colorado Avenue in Bend (catch up here and here) — is that it’s … well, it’s weird. It’s weird in a cool way, with hanging taxidermy watching your every move, funky furniture strewn about, unsettling films projected on the [...]
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Share this post:TweetOrganizers of the Sisters Folk Festival are busy getting ready for their 16th annual event, and this year, they’re trying to address issues that have arisen because of a recent spike in attendance. My story published in yesterday’s Community Life section of The Bulletin. Here’s an excerpt: After four consecutive years of significant [...]
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Share this post:TweetHere’s some unbelievably cool news for your Monday morning: Indie-rock giants The Shins are playing Bend’s Domino Room on Aug. 9. They just announced the show via email. You read that right. The Domino Room, capacity 500ish. (The band played to thousands at Les Schwab Amphitheater in 2007.) On Aug. 9, in eight [...]
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Share this post:TweetI used about 300 words in Friday’s newspaper trying to tell you why you should go see The David Mayfield Parade‘s free show today at Les Schwab Amphitheater (gates open at 1 p.m., showtime is 2:30 p.m.) But you don’t have to take my word for it. Check out the three videos below. [...]
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Share this post:TweetReady … Set … FUNK! The inaugural Volcanic Funk Festival kicks off with a free party tonight at McMenamins before oozing over to the Century Center on Saturday and Sunday. I spoke with founder Gabe Johnson about the origins of the event. A trip to New Orleans’ famous Jazz & Heritage Festival a [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe Volcanic Funk Festival kicks off tomorrow night with a free show by Thunder Body at McMenamins Old St. Francis School, then gets underway in earnest at Century Center on Saturday. Rest assured, we’ll have all the details and the story behind the festival in tomorrow’s GO! Magazine.
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Share this post:TweetThis wasn’t in last week’s GO! Magazine because I didn’t know about it, but now I do, so here we go: Downtown Bend bar The Astro Lounge has picked up and moved around the corner, from its longtime home on Minnesota Avenue into a bigger space at 939 N.W. Bond St., between the [...]
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Share this post:TweetSorry for the slow posting, folks. I spent the past few days seeing Fleet Foxes and transporting a pig from Corvallis to Bend, leaving little time for blogging. (Every word of that sentence is true.) In a town replete with opportunities to see progressive bluegrass played live, it’s nice to see a real [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis week, there are a couple of bigger names playing shows in Central Oregon, and you can find more on them below. But for my main music story this week, I decided to focus on the South Carolina roots/jam band Dangermuffin, which is playing out at Black Butte Ranch on Sunday. I chatted [...]
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Share this post:TweetPortland-based multicultural “little orchestra” Pink Martini returns to Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater on Saturday. You can get tickets and more details by clicking here. Unfortunately, they’ll be without longtime lead vocalist China Forbes, who’s having surgery on her vocal cords. In her place will be the cosmopolitan singer-songwriter Lucy Woodward. Here’s the press [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe friendly folks in the Bellingham, Wash., bluegrass-ish band Polecat came through town twice in the past 10 days or so, once for a set at the Bend Summer Festival and once for a show at McMenamins Old St. Francis School. My colleague Adam Sears was at the McMenamins show, video camera in [...]
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Share this post:TweetIf a picture is worth 1,000 words, there are 12,000 words below about Bend’s newest art-hangin’ / clothes-sellin’ / music-playin’ / beer-drinkin’ space, The Horned Hand, which I introduced you to right here. Still, I am going to add a few of my own. Cobbled together inside the old Repeat Performance building at [...]
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Share this post:TweetGO! Magazine was so packed with music this week, we couldn’t fit everything. So, don’t forget that the fourth annual CrawFest is going down tonight and tomorrow at Jake Crawford’s place between Bend and Powell Butte. (The address on the flyer below shows up here on Google Maps.) Crawford has, as you can [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe fine fellas in local rockabilly blues trio Boxcar Stringband will play the M&J Tavern Saturday night to celebrate the release of their new album “Going Down South.” I spoke with founding members Joseph Balsamo and Casey Cathcart about their band’s distinctly vintage style. Much of today’s music industry is obsessively focused on [...]
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Share this post:TweetAs summer unfolds, the local music scene is getting busier and busier. This week is no exception. Here’s what’s in the music section of this week’s GO! Magazine: –Country/bluegrass crossover stars Alison Krauss & Union Station return to Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater Saturday. (By the way, you really should grab a print copy [...]
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Share this post:TweetIf you’re like me — and everyone else on the planet older than 30 — the first thing you think of when you hear Night Ranger‘s name is the ’80s band one major hit, “Sister Christian.” “Sister Christian” has endured over the past 30 years, probably for three reasons: 1) A hilariously cheesy [...]
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Share this post:TweetAn email showed up a couple of weeks ago from local promoter Cassie Moore announcing upcoming shows by The White Buffalo (July 16) and Tornado Rider (July 22), both at something called The Horned Hand. I found the name alone to be extremely intriguing, so I immediately wrote Cassie back and asked her [...]
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Share this post:TweetAs we cross over from June into July — and thus end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
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Share this post:TweetAs we cross over from June into July — and thus end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here. [...]
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Share this post:TweetReggae legends Toots & the Maytals are coming to Redmond! It took a while, but I tracked down Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and talked to him about the key to his longevity. “The good music makes me stay on the road,” he said. “People need me so they request me to come, so I [...]
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Share this post:TweetAs we near the end of June — and thus the end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
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Share this post:TweetA couple of notes on local thrashgrass blur Larry and His Flask: 1) The guys’ new album, “All That We Know,” is now available for preorder right here. There’s an array of colored-vinyl options for collector nerds, plus one package that comes with a hip flask engraved with the LAHF logo. Awesome! 2) [...]
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Share this post:TweetAs we near the end of June — and thus the end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
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Share this post:TweetAs we near the end of June — and thus the end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
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Share this post:TweetAs we near the end of June — and thus the end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
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Share this post:Tweet(Note: I just realized I never posted this. D’oh!) So here’s how this works, in reverse: It took me a while to publish this blog post. Why? Because it took forever for me to edit and upload all this video. Why? Because there’s a lot of it. Why? Because I was compelled to [...]
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Share this post:TweetAs we near the end of June — and thus the end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far. To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
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Share this post:TweetAs regular readers know, Frequency was fortunate enough to read about and fall in love, love, love with Shabazz Palaces a full two years ago, when it was still a mysterious, futuristic hip-hop project bubbling up from Seattle. So I’ve been anticipating for a while now the release of “Black Up,” the first [...]
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Share this post:TweetBend-based pop-punk kingpins Tuck and Roll have a new EP out called “Broken Radios,” and they’re celebrating it with a free show tonight at Madhappy Lounge (850 N.W. Brooks St., Bend). The music starts at 6 p.m. outside the bar with Harley Bourbon and Confederacy of Dunces, and then Necktie Killer and Tuck [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis week in the music section, we bring you sort of a hodgepodge of stuff, ranging from benefit shows to CD-release events to concert series kick-offs to brand new venues opening. So here’s a list: KPOV’s raising funds with its second Beatles Singalong, and … Friends of Megan Cecil are raising funds for [...]
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Share this post:TweetMcMenamins Old St. Francis School hosts a whammy of a double-bill tonight in Father Luke’s Room as two rising nu-folk artists — Vandaveer and Cheyenne Marie Mize — perform both separately and together. I’m hearing some buzz around Vandaveer’s appearance in Bend, and with good reason; the band’s newest album, “Dig Down Deep,” [...]
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Share this post:Tweet(Note: I would strongly encourage you to seek out the print version of GO! Magazine (in today’s issue of The Bulletin) to see the nifty Twister-themed art and layout that my colleagues Greg and Althea did for the section this week. It looks great, and you should really see it in all its [...]
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Share this post:TweetThe Coyote Music Festival is happening Friday and Saturday at Summer Lake Hot Springs near Paisley, about 120 miles southeast of Bend. (Here it is on Google Maps.) There’s no mention of it in tomorrow’s GO! Magazine because no one told me about it, but I figure it might be of interest to [...]
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Share this post:Tweet The Last Band Standing competition is nearing the end of its preliminary rounds, which have been held over the past six Friday nights at Century Center. So far, six bands have moved on to the semifinals, to be held June 24 and July 1: Boxcar Stringband / Jones Road / Kleverkill / [...]
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Share this post:TweetThis just in from Deschutes County: Country singer Clay Walker and classic rockers The Guess Who, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and REO Speedwagon will play free concerts at the 2011 Deschutes County Fair. Folks who procure a concert pass (at any number of locations around Central Oregon) and pay admission to the [...]
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Share this post:TweetNice video of Friday night’s Erin Cole-Baker concert from John Michaelson of Bend, aka @Angry_Antlers on Twitter. Here’s “I’m Thinking of You,” one of several songs on Cole-Baker’s new album, “Big Sky,” that finds the Bend-based singer-songwriter expanding her sonic palette beyond her usual, whimsical folk-pop fare. If you’d like, you can read [...]
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Share this post:TweetCelebrate with one of the all-time great Silver Jews songs! (I can only imagine that this is the song that was blaring over the speakers as the Larry O’Brien trophy made its way into what appears to be a very trendy Miami nightclub last night, as seen here and here.)
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Share this post:Tweet(For the second week in a row, I forgot to post this on Friday. My apologies to the events that already happened … on Friday night.) Two shows to kick off summer series, two album release events, two benefits for people halfway across the country and one farewell by an old favorite. It’s [...]
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Share this post:Tweet… goes like this: July 7 — Tracorum (Bay Area funk/soul) July 14 — Curtis Salgado (veteran Oregon bluesman) July 21 — Rootz Underground (Jamaican reggae/hip-hop) July 28 — Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (ska/swing/rock) Aug. 4 — Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (swing) Aug. 11 — Shemekia Copeland (blues) If yer keeping score at home, [...]
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Share this post:Tweet Sometimes it seems like we (I?) get all hyped up about the rock, pop and hip-hop shows that come through Bend, and in doing so lose sight of the bands that sweep into town to play and sing beautiful songs beautifully, which is a skill we should never lose sight of. Sure, [...]
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Share this post:Tweet If not, you should. It absolutely smokes. Frequency and its big print sister, GO! Magazine, are longtime fans of The Autonomics, a powerful rock trio that formed a few years ago in Bend and moved to Portland last year. Click here to read about how they blew my mind at the 2009 [...]
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Share this post:TweetBrian Hinderberger pays tribute to his sister! Madhappy Lounge throws an all-day show to raise money for and awareness of its mission! Bobby Bare Jr. brings his awesome songs and impressive lineage to McMenamins! And my Feedback column focuses on last weekend’s Death Cab for Cutie and The Decemberists shows at Les Schwab [...]
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Share this post:Tweet Click the video above for an early peek at Bend singer-songwriter Erin Cole-Baker‘s new album “Big Sky,” via a Josh Cordell-shot video for the title track. (That’s inside the Backporch coffee shop in the Century Center, right? I’ve never been in there, but that’s my guess.) Sounds like Erin, doesn’t it? And [...]
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Share this post:Tweet The chorally endowed, Portland-based folk-pop band Brothers Young is back in town tonight to play PoetHouse Art with their eclectic buddies Hurtbird. Both bands have members that grew up in Bend before moving on to the big city. Want to educate yerself via the magic of links? Read about tonight’s show here, [...]
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Share this post:TweetEarlier today, globetrotting DJ/producer and Bend native SPL (aka Sam Pool) dropped a downloadable bomb by deciding to give away the entire catalog of his own Hollow Point label — a nearly bottomless supply of massive beats and electronic whomp — to anyone who wants it. For free. I haven’t listened to the [...]
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I didn’t get to see as much of the San Francisco roots-rock band Or, the Whale as I wanted to last night at McMenamins, but I saw enough to know those folks know their way around a swooning country song. The mini-set I saw was a bit twangier than I expected, but really beautiful. (And [...]
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My full review of The Decemberists’ show Sunday night at Les Schwab Amphitheater will run Friday in GO! Magazine. For now, tide yourself over with some wonderful photos of the evening taken by The Bulletin’s Ryan Brennecke. THE DECEMBERISTS RODRIGO Y GABRIELA DAN MANGAN
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I posted a bunch of good photos of Friday’s Death Cab/Bright Eyes/Jenny & Johnny show right here and I’ll post a bunch of good photos from last night’s Decemberists/Rodrigo y Gabriela/Dan Mangan show tomorrow. But for today, let’s celebrate Memorial Day with the one photo I took all weekend with my phone. Three questions: 1) [...]
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I did one of these for Death Cab for Cutie, so it seems only fair to do one for this weekend’s other Les Schwab Amphitheater headliner, The Decemberists, who play tonight. Whether you’re unfamiliar with the band’s work, or you’re skeptical that these Portlandian folkies actually have some great songs, or you dig ‘em and [...]
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Solid show last night at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend as Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes and Jenny & Johnny kicked off the venue’s summer concert season. As is always the case on Memorial Day weekend ’round here, however, the start of the summer concert season did not mean the start of summer. It [...]
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Seattle’s Death Cab for Cutie kicks off the summer concert season at Les Schwab Amphitheater tonight. I spoke with drummer Jason McGerr about the band’s new album, “Codes and Keys,” which comes out Tuesday: Several factors influenced the sound of “Codes,” McGerr said. The band took longer to make it, and, for the first time, [...]
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Here’s the thing: Lots of people like to turn up their nose at Death Cab for Cutie, and I get that. They make lovey dovey sappy emo-pop music that appears in “Twilight” films and on VH1. Teen girls love this band, not you. And that name … ugh. It’s not cool to like Death Cab [...]
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I think we can all agree that Memorial Day weekend shows at Les Schwab Amphitheater serve as a sort of unofficial kickoff to the summer concert season, and with the holiday right around the corner, I thought we should take a look at what’s coming our way between now and the end of September. Below, [...]
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Seattle pop-rock band Death Cab for Cutie will kick off Les Schwab Amphitheater’s summer concert season Friday night, and I’ll have lots more on the band both here on Frequency and in The Bulletin between now and then. In the meantime, NPR has DCfC’s new album, “Codes and Keys,” streaming in its entirety. (Note: I’ve [...]
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I wanna be on the record with my favorite albums of 2011! And if it doesn’t, well, then these are my favorite albums of 2011 so far. 1. Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” A stunning sophomore effort by the Seattle-based masters of rustic harmonies that is, at once, among both the prettiest and most ambitious albums [...]
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Eventually, I’ll post some thoughts on Empty Space Orchestra‘s CD-release show last night at the Century Center in Bend, as well as some nice Andy Tullis photos. For now, moving pictures will have to do. First up, “Brainjar” … which I sort of unwittingly joined halfway through. Hey, it was late. And here, the band [...]
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Eugene’s sunny pop/rock/reggae band Rootdown returns to Bend this weekend to celebrate the release of its new album “Tidal Wave.” I spoke with frontman Paul Wright about Rootdown’s upbeat music and upbeat message. “Our banner is one of hope and positive momentum,” Wright said. “We want to be about encouraging people and about bringing hope, [...]
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This is way off-topic, but I thought it was too cool not to share. Click below to take a drive through Bend in 1967 or 1968, via the magic of 8 mm film. You’ll drive into town from the north on Third Street, turn west on Franklin Avenue, loop through downtown and get a peek [...]
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Awful news: Local blues-rock trio Heleos lost its drummer and singer, James Palmer, in a car crash north of La Pine Friday night. Here’s The Bulletin’s story on the crash: La Pine firefighter killed in 2-car crash A captain with the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District was killed Friday in a two-vehicle crash on [...]
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Sad song Sunday: Red House Painters, “Have You Forgotten”
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It’s been a long time coming, but Empty Space Orchestra’s new album is here, and that means the local instrumental rock band has a CD-release show on Thursday. I caught up with ESO last week and we talked about their popularity in Bend and taking their show to new towns. “I don’t really feel like [...]
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This ad pretty much tells you what you need to know, but I will explain it anyway. Basically, starting today Golden Tickets are being placed randomly in The Bulletin’s GO! Magazine, and if you find one, you and someone else get into a Les Schwab Amphitheater show for free. The tickets can be found in [...]
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Here’s a super fun video. “Straight Trippin’” is, it appears, a web series that’ll follow a couple of buddies as they hitchhike from Portland to Los Angeles to New York. In the pilot, below, one of their first rides comes from Central Oregon’s own road warriors, Larry and His Flask. This was shot more than [...]
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As is usually the case, there’s plenty to do around Central Oregon this week if you’re into live music, so I’m going to keep it basic with the highlights: –Tonight, the popular Last Band Standing competition returns for 2011, pitting 32 bands against each other for audience votes over the next 11 weeks. If you [...]
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Time for a math lesson, kids: Cinco de Mayo + this awesome and long-awaited weather x one of the most robust weeknights of live music I can remember around here = downtown Bend is gonna be bananas tonight. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s happening: –The biggest party appears to be Amalia’s Cinco de Mayo [...]
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Per the Les Schwab Amphitheater’s website, tailor-made-for-Bend singer-songwriter Ben Harper will return to the venue on Aug. 26. Tickets will cost $39 plus fees and go on sale May 13. It’ll be the eclectic guitar wizard’s first Bend show since he played for a massive crowd on Memorial Day weekend in 2006. As long as [...]
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R.E.M., Metallica, U2, The Beach Boys, KISS, Cat Stevens and Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass!
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Downtown Bend will celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style Thursday as L.A. fusionistas Ozomatli headline a free outdoor celebration on Wall Street. My conversation with band co-founder Ulises Bella focused more on Ozo’s world travels than its music. But it’s the band’s role as U.S. Department of State-designated Cultural Ambassadors that sparks a fire in [...]
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Bend’s throwback rockabilly blues boys Boxcar Stringband played Silver Moon a couple weekends ago. Adam Sears got some video of the occasion, and then I forgot to post it. So here it is: Don’t forget to catch ‘em when they open for Cash’d Out at the Domino Room on Cinco de Mayo!
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…on this poster for their show tonight at MadHappy Lounge, spied recently on Parrilla Grill’s bulletin board. Truer words, etc., etc. If you’re interested, here’s what I wrote about the show in last Friday’s GO! Magazine: Good news for fans of atmospheric psych-rock: We have a Concave Perception Chamber sighting. The long-standing (but sometimes hard [...]
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You can listen to every second of one of 2011′s best albums by clicking here or here. Neither will stay up forever, so don’t delay.
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Canadian bass music producer ill.Gates will headline tonight’s “For the Music” party to celebrate Slipmat Science’s ninth anniversary. I spoke with the man about how and why he immersed himself in the world of electronic composition. Two decades ago, Lane was that upstart kid. He played guitar and piano, but got his first sampler at [...]
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Woohoo! It’s officially Friday! To celebrate, here’s the new video from Culver City Dub Collective, the Afro-Cuban/roots-reggae/Cali cool project from Adam Topol and Bend’s own Franchot Tone. It’s just what you expect from these dudes: Breezy. Mellow. Grooves. So it’s perfect if you’re craving that warm, tropical feeling but can’t leave your cubicle. Also: Directed [...]
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So, Gregory Alan Isakov and openers Fairchildren and Lo, and Behold put on a terrific night of music Saturday at PoetHouse Art in downtown Bend. Just terrific. I’ll have a full review in Friday’s GO! Magazine, but here’s video of Isakov’s final number of the evening, “Salt and the Sea.” It’s not super representative of [...]
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Central Oregon’s roller-coaster jam-band gathering, the 4 Peaks Music Festival, will return to its original home, the Rockin’ A Ranch near Tumalo, on July 15-16. Why is 4 Peaks a “roller-coaster”? Because of its history of ups and downs. The fest started with a bang in 2007, attracting big-name headliners like Animal Liberation Orchestra and [...]
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(UPDATE: Two bands — Kousefly and The Strain — declined their spots in the competition and were replaced by Jones Road and Heleos. This post has been updated to reflect the change.) Last Band Standing is back! The multi-round mega-battle of the bands — which debuted in Bend last summer and drew thousands of people [...]
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One of Bend’s favorite dudes, G. Love aka Garrett Dutton, is bringing the Special Sauce back to town on Thursday. This time, he’s supporting a more rustic, acoustic album called “Fixin’ to Die” that he made with Seth and Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers. I chatted with the man about his new musical direction. [...]
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As mentioned in today’s Feedback column in GO! Magazine, tomorrow is Record Store Day, and Ranch Records (831 Wall Street, Bend) is celebrating with some special RSD releases, free giveaways and an Empty Space Orchestra show in the alley behind the store at 1 p.m. It should be a pretty cool day. Props to Empty [...]
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Seattle-based Subpop Records has made its Record Store Day sampler available for free streaming, and it features lots of Frequency faves: Shabazz Palaces, Mogwai, Fleet Foxes, J Mascis, The Head and the Heart, Blitzen Trapper, and so on. (As of noon Wednesday, though, they have the labels for the Fleet Foxes and Chad VanGaalen tracks [...]
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Power/pop/roots/rock supergroup The Baseball Project brought its traveling roadshow to Bend’s Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom Thursday night, and in the spirit of the night’s primary subject, let’s grade the participants in baseball terms. The band itself wasn’t exactly at MVP level, though I thought they were considerably better live than on their new album, [...]
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Three more shows have been added to the summer lineup for Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater. –Bluegrass superstars Alison Krauss & Union Station return July 9 in support of their new album “Paper Airplane.” Ticket prices range from $39 to $62 (plus fees). –Portland’s cosmopolitan mini-orchestra Pink Martini is set to play the Schwab on July [...]
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My man Adam Sears went and saw a silky smooth Tennessee swing band, Christabel & the Jons, at McMenamins on Wednesday night and came back with a couple of videos, including a Hank Williams cover! Check ‘em out:
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This just in: A good-lookin’ video for the title track from “Typical Nightlife,” the excellent 2010 album by Bend-based MC Mindscape. As Eric Metzger said on Facebook, this clip is pretty much an endless stream of familiar faces and places for anyone who has spent an evening or two roaming around Bend’s bar scene. They [...]
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Yonder Mountain String Band returns to Bend next week to play progressive bluegrass for its horde of fans. I spoke with Adam Aijala and Dave Johnston about the band’s state of mind after two albums of stylistic exploration under the guidance of renowned rock producer Tom Rothrock. “We feel that we have no — or [...]
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My full review of last night’s Ice Cube show at Bend’s very sold out Midtown Ballroom will run tomorrow in GO! Magazine, and I’ll link it here on Frequency. In the meantime, take a gander at some sweet photos of the night by The Bulletin’s Andy Tullis. (Note: The one guy you see in the [...]
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Ice Cube at the Midtown Ballroom, yes. But I suspect that one may already be on your radar. So I’m going to point out a few other options tonight that would work if (a) you’re not a rap fan, or (b) you can’t afford the Cube ticket, or (c) you’re looking for something to do [...]
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The buzz is loud around Silver Lake, Calif.-based rock band Vanaprasta. The L.A. media has identified them as one of that scene’s next big things, and the band has just returned from playing eight shows in four days at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas. Now, Vanaprasta is putting the finishing touches on its [...]
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Local instrumental titans Empty Space Orchestra have been relatively quiet this winter, spending more time recording in California and playing shows in Portland and Seattle than on Bend’s stages. Expect more noise over the next month as the space-jazz-rock quintet ramps up the hype for the release of its new self-titled album in May. Here [...]
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Having a mellow Saturday morning? Our “blue” songs series (celebrating the University of Kentucky basketball team’s trip to the Final Four!) is here to help. Today’s installment: “Way To Blue” by the revered English singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974, but before that, was widely known as one of the world’s biggest, most boisterous [...]
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Hip-hop legend Ice Cube rolls into Bend’s Midtown Ballroom on Wednesday! In this week’s GO! Magazine, I make the case for why you shouldn’t turn your nose up at a chance to see the man, given his enormous influence on rap music over the past 20 years. After “The Predator” (plus his increasing interest in [...]
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Why yes, I am posting “blue” songs to celebrate the University of Kentucky’s trip to the Final Four this weekend! Thank you for noticing. Today, we’re gonna go full-on hillbilly with some mighty fine bluegrass — Kentucky is, after all, The Bluegrass State — from “The Mountain,” country-rock icon Steve Earle‘s 1999 collaboration with the [...]
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I mentioned this on Frequency’s Facebook the other day, but had no link to provide. Well, I’ve since found a link, but it’s a Soundcloud, so it could go away at any time, so you should just go ahead and listen right now. Why? Because I’ve listened to several great albums in the first quarter [...]
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A few concerts coming to Central Oregon that were recently announced: –Orchestral folk-pop singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov — last seen in Bend opening for Brandi Carlile — will play what should be a beautifully intimate show on April 16 at PoetHouse Art downtown. Showtime is 9 p.m. and tickets are available in advance for $10 [...]
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In honor of Kentucky’s trip to the Final Four, how about some “blue” songs? Here’s a fun little power-pop vs. new wave nugget off of “Coping With Insignificance,” the 2000 album from a little-known Texas band called Adventures of Jet.
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If you don’t already know, now you know: I am a lifelong, diehard fan of the University of Kentucky basketball team (Lexington native, class of ’99, etc.), and last night, my beloved Wildcats defeated North Carolina to advance to their first Final Four since 1998. And since this is their first Final Four since I’ve [...]
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“Hair metal” survivors L.A. Guns are in Bend tonight for a show at the Domino Room. I spoke with drummer Steve Riley about the key to the band’s longevity. “Bands die when they get on a big tour … and then they have to come back and go out and do clubs. There are a [...]
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More clearing of the vaults: Here are two videos I shot last Thursday night of The Mother Hips performing at McMenamins Old St. Francis School. (I also got a couple videos of opening act The Parson Red Heads — including their cover of the Traveling Wilburys hit “Handle With Care” — but the audio is [...]
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OK, so this is a full week old, and on the Internet, that’s ancient. But it’s worth your attention. Below, find three videos of roots-rock band The David Mayfield Parade playing last Wednesday at McMenamins Old St. Francis School, shot by my colleague Adam Sears. Adam texted me from the show — which I now [...]
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Uh … oops! I forgot to post this on Friday, like I usually do. Sorry about that. Anyway, here’s a short but sweet roundup of what’s in the music section of this week’s GO! Magazine. As is often the case, the next seven days boast a pretty busy and diverse slate of shows. Click the [...]
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The team of blogmonkeys stationed inside the Frequency Command Bunker has been a little slow with the “publish” button recently, so chances are good you already know that the fantastic Latin rock/hip-hop band Ozomatli is playing a free, outdoor show on May 5 in downtown Bend. Pretty exciting! Today, even more exciting news about that [...]
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As you may have heard, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile will perform one night only at the Tower Theatre on May 5. Carlile sold out two nights last summer and one the year before that. Tickets to the show go on sale to the public today, but if you want one, you’d better hurry, because Tower Theatre [...]
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There are lots of options for going out tonight to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. But if it’s a genuine Celtic sound you’re looking for, you’re not going to do much better than catching Five Pint Mary and the Bend Fire Pipes and Drums Band at the Domino Room. In Bend, bands like Flogging Molly, Young [...]
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(Note: Jenny Wasson is the fiddler for the Moon Mountain Ramblers and an employee of The Bulletin. She attended the Wintergrass festival late last month and filed this report. The photos are hers, too. Part 1 is here.) Saturday Slightly delirious from the lack of sleep, I wandered around the Hyatt Regency Bellevue to find [...]
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(Note: Jenny Wasson is the fiddler for the Moon Mountain Ramblers and an employee of The Bulletin. She attended the Wintergrass festival late last month and filed this report. The photos are hers, too. Part 2 is here.) Anatomy of a Bluegrass Festival, by Jenny Wasson As a musician, it’s easy to start playing in [...]
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San Francisco pop-rock band The Mother Hips will play McMenamins Old St. Francis School on St. Patrick’s Day. I called up band co-founder Tim Bluhm and asked him why so many people think the Hips are a jam band. “It used to make us so angry when people called us (that),” said Bluhm, 40, in [...]
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After all of my hype (see here and here) about Monday night’s PDXchange show featuring Viva Voce, Damien Jurado and Loch Lomond, I ended up missing the whole thing because of a nasty cold. Total bummer. So, I hit up a couple of guys who I knew were there to see if Frequency could at [...]
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I repeat: Tonight’s Moonalice show at Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom is canceled because of an illness in the band, per their Twitter/Facebook.
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This is one of the two bulletin boards at Longboard Louie’s on the west side right now.
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Today, Frequency is dedicated to documenting the sad, endlessly enthralling songbook of Seattle’s Damien Jurado, who will perform Monday night in Bend. To see the whole series, click here. (Addendum: The man has too many great, sad songs for one day, so I’m extending “Sad song Sunday” into Monday.) The show has begun down at [...]
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Frequency: The Bulletin's music blog
Today, Frequency is dedicated to documenting the sad, endlessly enthralling songbook of Seattle’s Damien Jurado, who will perform Monday night in Bend. To see the whole series, click here. (Addendum: The man has too many great, sad songs for one day, so I’m extending “Sad song Sunday” into Monday.) “Everything Trying” and “Last Rights,” both [...]
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Frequency: The Bulletin's music blog
Today, Frequency is dedicated to documenting the sad, endlessly enthralling songbook of Seattle’s Damien Jurado, who will perform Monday night in Bend. To see the whole series, click here. (Addendum: The man has too many great, sad songs for one day, so I’m extending “Sad song Sunday” into Monday.) The simple, devastating chorus of “Letters [...]
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We already know that Death Cab for Cutie is kicking off the 2011 Bend Summer Concerts series at Les Schwab Amphitheater, and over the weekend, word came from Marney Smith, the amphitheater’s manager, of two more dates: May 29 — The Decemberists, Rodrigo y Gabriela (and possibly another support act to be announced) July 2 [...]
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Today, Frequency is dedicated to documenting the sad, endlessly enthralling songbook of Seattle’s Damien Jurado, who will perform Monday night in Bend. To see the whole series, click here. Here’s another death-obsessed song from Jurado, called “Window” and taken from what might be his best record, 2003′s “Where Shall You Take Me?” (That’s might be. [...]
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Frequency: The Bulletin's music blog
Today, Frequency is dedicated to documenting the sad, endlessly enthralling songbook of Seattle’s Damien Jurado, who will perform Monday night in Bend. To see the whole series, click here. Not all of Damien Jurado’s songs are about lost love. Some are about death. (And some are about both.) Take a listen to “Tonight I Will [...]
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Way back in the summer of 2009, I started what was to be a regular Frequency series called “Sad song Sunday,” wherein I would post a sad song on Sundays. I haven’t done one since. But with singer-songwriter extraordinaire and master of the downcast Damien Jurado coming to Bend on Monday night, I think it’s [...]
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Portland-based indie rock duo Viva Voce come to Bend Monday to help kick off the 2011 PDXchange Program series, along with Damien Jurado and Loch Lomond. I talked to Anita Robinson about Viva Voce’s new album, “The Future Will Destroy You,” which is due out in June. “We feel like these songs are really representative [...]
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My man Adam Sears (who works in circulation at The Bulletin) hit Green Plow Coffee Roaters in Redmond on Friday night to check out the husband-wife folk band Finn Miles from Des Moines, Iowa, who played at least one pretty song featuring the guitar and trumpet (!), which Adam captured on video. Check it:
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