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Ten months before Pitchfork declared Shabazz Palaces “rising,” I wrote this post imploring you to do whatever it took to listen to Seattle’s mysterious, vanguard hip-hop act.
Problem was, that was tough to do, because the Shabazz Palaces EPs weren’t particularly easy to get, and the group had a minimal presence on the web, with no [...]
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Minneapolis-based hip-hop group Atmosphere released a new single today from their just-announced, upcoming double EP “To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy.” Stream and/or download it here:
Download audio file (11-Freefallin.mp3)
Download Atmosphere, “Freefallin’”
Atmosphere’s “To All My Friends” tour will stop at Bend’s Midtown Ballroom on Sept. 21. Get tickets and other details here, and [...]
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I know all you Frequency readers pick up the print version of The Bulletin every day, so you probably saw this in today’s GO! Magazine. But just in case: Local DJ Mud (aka Mike Graham) is moving to Portland very, very soon, which is a bummer for Central Oregon’s dance-floor denizens, but great for him.
Bend [...]
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Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Clint Black … it’s a big week for big names in music in Central Oregon. See today’s GO! Magazine in The Bulletin for all the details on big shows at Les Schwab Amphitheater, plus more music than you can shake an electric guitar at.
Sorry no video this week – Dylan vids [...]
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I really dig Brothers Young. The Portland-based band — made up of three brothers (Dustin, Dillon and Michael Young) who grew up on Ithaca Avenue in Bend, plus three of their closest friends — played one of the best sets at last year’s Bend Roots Revival, and you can read my thoughts on that show [...]
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Bend’s indie-rock community will take a big hit in the next week or so when the four fellows in The Dirty Words relocate to Portland.
David Clemmer, Mike Chastain, Aaron Poplin and Scott Page have played a whole bunch of shows around town in the past five years, and they’ve done so with style. They got [...]
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Cool: Below is the new video for “I Don’t Believe You” from “Personal Life,” the upcoming album from Portland indie-pop-punk idols The Thermals. It’s a fun clip that stars Carrie Brownstein, she of NPR’s highly readable Monitor Mix blog (when she’s not taking a break from it, as she is now) and a certain trail-blazing [...]
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Portland’s massive musical mob, the MarchFourth Marching Band, will inject the Domino Room with a healthy dose of fun Sunday night. David Jasper spoke to bandleader John Averill about how the group formed, and how he keeps it together:
Averill said that MarchFourth started in 2003 when he and a couple of friends decided to put [...]
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So, remember a few weeks ago, I told you about Bend-connected band Adventure Galley, and their fine showing in a nationwide battle of the bands-type thing on MySpace? (You can refresh your memory here.)
Well, it turns out they’ve now advanced to the finals, where they’ll try to beat out five other bands for $10,000 in [...]
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Here’s the official video for “Cellophane,” the first single from Bend singer-songwriter Sara Jackson-Holman’s debut album “When You Dream.” The clip, created by Chris Tootell of Whitegate Films, stars downtown Portland, Cannon Beach, and some lush (presumably) Oregon forest, but not Jackson-Holman herself.
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Lap steel guitar wizard Robert Randolph and his Family Band will bring their gospel-blues-rock to Bend on Sunday. My colleague David Jasper spoke with Randolph about the past and present of sacred steel music.
“There’s a history of our church … which goes all the way back 70 years,” Randolph explained. “In those days in the [...]
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If you check out GO! Magazine tomorrow, you’ll see an article about the 4 Peaks Music Festival that says it’s happening Saturday at the Domino Room (which was, in fact, a last-minute change from earlier plans to hold it on a ranch near Sisters).
Thanks to yet another very, very, very last-second change, that article is [...]
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This is a must-watch. I saw it at the Cog Wild Twitter.
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Interested in seeing the first draft schedule for the upcoming Bend Roots Revival, happening Sept. 23-26 at Century Center? Click here and scroll down a bit.
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(Note: There are three videos of this show at the end of the review.)
Therapist-turned-folk singer William Fitzsimmons was absolutely terrific Sunday night at Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom in Bend, thanks to a whole bunch of people.
Thanks to Fitzsimmons, certainly. And Jake Phillips and Rosi Golan, who played and sang with him. And Silver Moon’s [...]
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The South Carolina jAmericana trio — that’s jam-band + Americana, I just made that up — Dangermuffin starts its three-night run at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend tonight. The shows are at 7 p.m., and they’re free.
As jAmericana (I like it!) bands go, this one’s pretty cool; in last week’s GO! Magazine, I [...]
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Nice job, Frequency readers! You helped identify this kid and connect his parents with The Old Mill District. You rule!
Your next task: Find the music instruments and gear that belong to local musicians Scott Foxx and Mosley Wotta, but disappeared from the West Wind Ranch Americana Music Festival a couple of weekends ago. Here’s an [...]
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The Old Mill District would love to make a print of this photo for the parents of this cute kid on stage with Michael Franti, taken by Brad Reynolds during Franti’s show last night in Bend. If you know who he is, or you know who is parents are, e-mail Marney Smith at marney@theoldmill.com.
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If you haven’t heard his name, at least take a few minutes to listen to William Fitzsimmons’ music. The guy writes beautifully downcast songs in the same vein as Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam. I talked to Fitzsimmons earlier this week about his current state of mind after going through some dark [...]
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On Sunday, a folk singer named William Fitzsimmons will perform at Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom in Bend. And you should must go.
Earlier this week, I had a chance to chat on the phone with Fitzsimmons, and he was one of the nicest and most forthright interviewees I’ve encountered in 10 years of writing for [...]
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The previously announced performer at tonight’s Munch & Music in Drake Park, Jah Sun & the Redemption Band, is not playing. Instead, attendees will get the roots-reggae sound of Portland’s the Instigators.
Combine the replacement of one middling west-coast reggae band with another and the fact that a lot of Munch attendees barely pay attention to [...]
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Plus, info on how you — if you’re a local musician — can try to snag a spot playing at the festival, if you haven’t already. From Bend Roots Revival founder and organizer Mark Ransom:
What an amazing community we have!
I am happy to report that we are totally full with artist submissions for the 2010 [...]
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Enough with the sandwiches, right? (Note to The Bulletin: Have you considered putting someone on the sandwich beat? I know a guy. Who loves sandwiches.)
Oh, right … music. It’s summer in Central Oregon, which means the next seven days are more packed with good live-music opportunities than, say, this sandwich is packed with corned beef.
This [...]
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Have you been to Letzer’s Deli, a new-ish sandwich place over on the weird little part of Division Street between Reed Market Road and Third Street? You know … kinda in between Jackalope Grill and Tortilleria Reyes?
Anyway, I went there for lunch. Look at this freakin’ sandwich:
(Please note that I named that .jpg “beefton”.)
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The what? I know. I just heard about it, too. It’s a big ol’ rap and metal festival happening this Friday and Saturday at an RV park between La Pine and Christmas Valley, and it’s called the Phuket Phest.
That’s Phuket, like the region of Thailand. Pronounced “poo-kett.” Of course.
The big names on the bill include [...]
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You know I love Portland’s MusicfestNW. And now we know MusicfestNW loves Bend.
On his Twitter Wednesday night, local hip-hopper Mosley Wotta (aka Jason Graham) announced that he has been added to the multi-day, multi-venue, multi-genre extravaganza’s schedule.
When I visited Graham’s house a few weeks back (for this blog post), he told me he had just [...]
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Henry Abel’s PDXchange Program, which brings Portland-based indie bands to the Tower Theatre, picked up some serious momentum last night when Abel announced his next three shows:
Sept. 8 — The Thermals
Sept. 29 — Blind Pilot
Oct. 27 — Laura Veirs and Weinland
What a score for PDXchange. The Thermals and Blind Pilot — two very different bands [...]
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Each week, before I plan out the music section in GO! Magazine, I sit down at the computer, scour every potential source of concerts I can think of, and make a big list of what’s happening in a given week. Some weeks, there’s an obvious headliner worth writing about. Other weeks, it’s a bit more [...]
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Late notice for the show, I know, but here’s a good, locally connected band you could check out tonight if you’re out and about (or want to be): Adventure Galley is a Eugene-based quintet made up mostly of young fellas who relocated from Bend, and they’re playing at Boondocks (70 N.W. Newport Ave., Bend) at [...]
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Lots of info on The Hump Day Hash here and here. And now, here’s the flyer. Tonight, Tim Coffey takes the stage and Habitat for Humanity gets the nonprofit spotlight. Get trippy with it!
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One of the world’s best and best-known banjo players, Bela Fleck, will return (with his Flecktones) to Bend Dec. 8 to play a holiday concert at Mountain View High School.
The show will benefit Bend’s community radio station, KPOV, which is looking for individuals and organizations in the community to sponsor the event. If you’re interested [...]
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I touched on this briefly in last week’s GO! Magazine, but one of the local bar-rock scene’s veterans, Don Hoxie, will celebrate the release of his new solo album with a listening party tonight at Ranch Records (831 N.W. Wall St., Bend) at 7 p.m.
Hoxie — a former Ranch man himself — will be on [...]
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Oregon-then-L.A.-and-now-Oregon-again’s The Parson Red Heads are playing at McMenamins Old St. Francis School on Aug. 6.
This is awesome news. The Red Heads are among the latest in the West Coast’s long lineage of bands that blend leisurely pop, rock and twang and filter it through a sun-baked, psychedelic prism. From The Byrds to the Beach [...]
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“How’s the weather over there? Snow all gone yet?”
“Did you ever hear the sump pump kick on in the spring?”
“Why don’t you take some of that dough you’ve made over the years, buy a big ol’ jet airliner, and fly me over there so I can fix your kitchen cabinets myself rather than paying someone [...]
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Portland-based Sassparilla is a six-piece jug band that rose up in Chicago and Pittsburgh before migrating to the West coast, and man, are they a good time. The group rocks out on:
a cigar-box guitar made from an old jewelry box
a washtub bass beaten with a stick
a polka-dotted 5-gallon-bucket drum kit with rusty brake-drums and a [...]
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Electronic music festival Emrg+N+See, now in its seventh year, is this weekend. A bunch of acts who’ve played in Bend — including our own SPL — are among the many worthy artists in Macleay, about 20 minutes outside of Salem.
There are a lot of reasons to make the 2 1/2-ish hour drive out to this [...]
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Hit-making machines that inspire nostalgia invade Les Schwab Amphitheater this weekend, with the Steve Miller Band playing Friday night and Barenaked Ladies on Saturday. I didn’t interview either, but instead used Daniel Levitin’s best-selling book “This Is Your Brain On Music” as a basis for a piece on how music affects our memories and emotions. [...]
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A couple bits of news from up Sisters way:
– The Sisters Folk Festival’s annual Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest is now accepting entries. Deadline is July 31. Here’s most of the festival’s press release, with all the details you need:
The contest carries a $750 grand prize. Five finalists will be selected from all submissions, and [...]
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Local space-jazz blastronauts Empty Space Orchestra played the free Summer Sunday show at Les Schwab Amphitheater a few weeks back, and a crew from Rage Films was on hand to document the rock. The results so far have been stunning:
ESO is playing the Tractor Tavern in Seattle Friday night with The Staxx Brothers. So if [...]
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Remember over here when I told you that Bend pop-rock combo Kousefly’s long-incubating debut album was just a few weeks away from being ready for public consumption?
Well, that time has arrived; “Down By A Billion” is here, available through all kinds of channels, including Ranch Records in Bend and the usual online suspects. The trio’s [...]
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So, yeah. Lots to do in town tonight for the music junkies. And many of your options are good: The White Buffalo brings his full band to Silver Moon. The Aggrolites are gonna dirty-reggae up the Domino Room. Kelly Joe Phelps and Corinne West at Angeline’s in Sisters.
This is where I implore you to at [...]
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A new music series called The Hump Day Hash kicks off tonight at Century Center, which is the complex of buildings behind the old Brightwood Mill at the intersection of Southwest Century Drive and Southwest Commerce Avenue. It’s also going to host the Bend Roots Revival in September, as Frequency told you back in February.
Tonight’s [...]
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This slipped by me last week and it didn’t make Friday’s GO! Magazine. But it looks fun and the poster is cool. High-quality, catchy punk rock courtesy The Secretions and Bastards of Young (both from Sacramento) and always excellent local dudes Tuck and Roll. Dunno what the cover is, but I’d bet it’s either free [...]
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Here’s something you should definitely go do tonight: “D tour,” the winner of BendFilm’s Best Documentary award last fall, is screening at 8:30 p.m. at McMenamins Old St. Francis School. It’ll cost you $8, or $6 if you’re a BendFilm member. Director/producer Jim Granato is going to be on hand to talk about the film, [...]
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Who is Branden Miskimon? And how does he keep ending up in photos of Munch & Music in The Bulletin?
First check out this photo from July 24, 2009, when Rhythm Culture played the popular Drake Park event:
Now, check out this photo, which ran in today’s paper and was taken last night as Aphrodesia performed:
It’s the [...]
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Kelly Joe Phelps and Corinne West will bring their wonderful new duo to Angeline’s Bakery in Sisters next week. Both are well known solo artists on the folk circuit, but they’ve merged their talents. West told The Bulletin why:
We didn’t know quite what to expect other than that we were going to have a great [...]
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In today’s Outing section of The Bulletin, you can read about my trip into the woods near Bend to hunt mushrooms with Bend-based rapper and mycophile — and recent addition to the Kottonmouth Kings — The Dirtball, aka David Alexander. Here’s an excerpt:
Alexander has been hunting mushrooms for 15 years. He was introduced to [...]
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A few notes here:
1) This commercial was made to promote the city of Portland’s “Listen Local” program, which ensures local artists are played as hold music across the city’s telephone system.
2) This commercial is awesome.
3) Loch Lomond — which features members who grew up in Bend, including frontman Ritchie Young (that’s him on the right [...]
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The freedom to shake your butt in the sunshine, that is. The Staxx Brothers are back in town today to play a free Summer Sunday concert at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend. The show will start around 2:30 p.m., and gates open at 1 p.m.
This has the makings of a pretty awesome way to plug [...]
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Late notice: If you’re looking for a place to dance tonight, strongly consider the Madhappy Lounge (known until recently as the Bendistillery Martini Bar downtown), where local DJs Swett and Smoke — two members of the vast and productive Grove family — are gonna pump the place full of party-whompin’ happy gas all night long.
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Aphrodesia, an Afrobeat (and so much more) band based in the Bay Area, will kick off the 20th season of Munch & Music Thursday. I spoke with bassist and bandleader Ezra Gale about the rising profile of Afrobeat in America.
“I think (Afrobeat) is definitely more in the mainstream consciousness than it was when we started [...]
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The title of this post says it all. Congrats to Mosley Wotta and his fantastic new live band, who beat out Empty Space Orchestra, Kleverkill and Hot Tea Cold for the title of Last Band Standing. Their $30,000 prize package includes a tour van. I hope they put it to good use.
About halfway through MoWo’s [...]
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Much love and appreciation to all Frequency’s readers north of the border! If there are any.
Jason Collett rules.
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Hardcore troubadour Steve Earle put on a great (and long!) show last night for a sold-out Tower Theatre in Bend. Bulletin photographer Rob Kerr was there and came back with these excellent photos of the man doing what he does better than just about anyone else alive.
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This post has a lot of details about the new 7-inch record from local boys Larry and His Flask, including several links to buy the songs digitally. Conspicuously absent, perhaps, is how to get one of the 1,000 copies of the actual, vinyl record.
If you live in Central Oregon, here’s one way to get it: [...]
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Just announced by the Old Mill District: Bob Dylan — one of the greatest songwriters ever — and John Mellencamp — don’t call him “Cougar” — will perform at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend on Aug. 27.
Advance tickets go on sale July 10 through Ticketmaster, at a cost of $48.50 for general admission and $79.50 [...]
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If you’re friends with longtime Bendistillery Martini Bar manager Reggie Martinez (online or in the real world), you know he’s been talking about this for a while, but now, it’s official: Martinez has purchased the bar — located in the breezeway downtown — from Bendistillery and renamed it the Madhappy Lounge.
I talked to Martinez today [...]
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Local Scratch is an occasional series that profiles interesting DJs in Bend and Central Oregon.
Lucius Wheeler, 27, learned to spin from the DJs at The Grove – Mike Graham, Brian Swett, DJ Smoke. He likes to play dance music and he certainly knows how to get people riled up using a lot of quick, [...]
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The Acorn Project, from Bellingham, Wash., is coming down to play three consecutive nights at Bend’s McMenamins Old St. Francis School. That seemed like a good-enough reason to chat with saxophonist Sam Lax about the band.
If Acorn Project is a jam band, they’re one with a sense of momentum. Where most jam bands might engage [...]
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McMenamins Old St. Francis School’s weekly Wednesday-night concerts are among Bend’s most popular gathering spots, thanks to the cost (free) and the beer (drinkable). Now, the downtown venue is adding free shows on Thursday nights as part of a company-wide expansion of its live-music offerings.
There is no show tonight, and next week’s Thursday show by [...]
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Portland-based electro-pop chanteuse Stephanie Schneiderman is at McMenamins Old St. Francis School tonight. It’s free and will start at 7 p.m., with Sisters singer-songwriter Anastacia opening.
You can read more about Schneiderman here, and here’s a song for you, for free download. It’s cool, so don’t skip it:
Download Stephanie Schneiderman, “Wide Open”
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Over the past couple years, the Clear Summer Nights concert series has slashed its ticket prices but continued to bring some pretty heavy hitters to Bend, making it one of the best bangs for your concert bucks in Central Oregon.
The 2010 season is no different. Here’s the lineup:
July 14 — Colin Hay (of Men At [...]
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As you may have heard, local MC / poet / painter / etc. Mosley Wotta (aka Jason Graham) released a very limited run of his new album, “Wake,” at last Thursday’s Last Band Standing. I talked to Graham and got a sneak preview of the album on Wednesday, but decided not to post about it [...]
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I’m sure all Frequency readers also faithfully read The Bulletin every day, so you probably all saw this in Saturday’s paper. But just in case, here’s a sweet deal for tonight’s Merle Haggard show that makes me wish my dad lived fewer than 2,300 miles away:
Is your dad a fan of country music?
Even if he [...]
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Portland-based gyspy jazz band Revel Me! (members of Underscore Orkestra) brought something a little different to McMenamins Old St. Francis School on Wednesday with almost two hours of frenzied, twangy songs that dropped into sultry, almost menacing-sounding melodies, fronted by a pretty serious pair of belly dancers.
The audience was fairly sedate, but some of the upbeat [...]
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Lots of twang in the section this week!
Pokey LaFarge and The South City Three will bring their throwback take on Americana music to the Domino Room next week to help KPOV celebrate its fifth birthday. I chatted with Pokey about how he became such an anachronism.
LaFarge’s work tramples old-time genre boundaries, bouncing around from folk [...]
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The band at Silver Moon tonight is pretty cool. They’re called The Preservation, and they sound like the Austin, Texas music scene come to life: a pinch of twang-pop, a dash of of rockabilly and swing, a smidgen of soul, and a healthy splash of margarita mix and festive chili pepper lights. Think the Beatles/Kinks/Velvet [...]
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As I outlined in GO! Magazine a couple months ago, Central Oregon acoustipunk powerhouse Larry and His Flask is blowing up outside their home region, thanks in large part to (1) non-stop hard work, and (2) a slot opening for Dropkick Murphys across about one-third of the country.
The result of this attention? Everywhere you go [...]
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A week from tonight, Bend’s community radio station, KPOV, will hold its fifth birthday party at the Domino Room in Bend. Local Americana quintet Moon Mountain Ramblers will open the show, and the headliner will be old-time revivalist Pokey LaFarge and The South City Three, about whom I’ll have a full feature story in Friday’s [...]
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There’s a terrific show happening Friday night at the Rise Up Warehouse in Bend, featuring locals Empty Space Orchestra, Idaho’s Finn Riggins and Portland’s Hosannas.
All three acts are very, very good, but I’ll have some extended praise for the opener, Hosannas, in Friday’s GO! Magazine. In the meantime, here’s a track from that band’s new [...]
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We introduced you to Last Band Standing (here, here and here) and have been running updates every Friday in GO! Magazine. But last week was the final week of preliminaries, and the semifinal lineup is set, so it’s time for an update.
With Empty Space Orchestra’s win Thursday night at Boondock’s, here’s how the semis shake [...]
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Ever been to a club or party where the music was exactly what you wanted to be? You can thank a DJ for that. But most people don’t – I’ve noticed my friends say things like, “This DJ is awesome!” and leave it at that. It just doesn’t usually occur to them to find out [...]
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A couple weeks ago, The Bulletin’s business desk was bolstered by the arrival of Adrianne Jeffries, who’s interning in Bend for the summer.
That’s great … for the business desk. What I’m excited about is Adrianne’s a bit of a music nut, too, and totally into blogging. Which means she’s a great fit for Frequency!
So, yeah, [...]
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Summer is here! (Almost.) And so are the free, outdoor concert series around Central Oregon. Portland bands The Lights Out and Rosa’s Buds will kick off Les Schwab Amphitheater’s free Summer Sunday Concerts series on Sunday, and we’ve got the rest of that lineup and a roundup of other series right here.
Portland electro-pop wizards The [...]
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By now, you are probably becoming familiar with the name Sara Jackson-Holman, if not from my feature article on her way back on New Year’s Day, then from the press clips she’s piled up since. Most impressive is this review of the release show for her new album “When You Dream” that appeared on The [...]
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Warning: If you spend part of your afternoon watching this:
And this:
And this:
And this:
Then YouTube is going to think you’re hella lame:
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Local pop-rock quartet KouseFly has been slowly, surely putting together its debut album, “Down By A Billion,” for a while now. Brian Hinderberger — who founded the band with Chris Evans — says the record is currently being mastered, and he hopes the band will be able to officially release “Billion” later this month, though [...]
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Frequency already gave you a sneak peek at Sisters Folk Festival’s 2010 lineup, but today, the fest — set for Sept. 10-12 — unveiled its full slate. Here’s the list:
And, the full press release, with ticketing and pricing info:
Sisters Folk Festival Lineup Announced
Sisters, Oregon ~ The Sisters Folk Festival is proud to announce a fantastic [...]
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Another terrific show and very cool scene last night at the Tower Theatre as Portland’s The Helio Sequence came to town, thanks to the PDXchange Program. Locals the Empty Space Orchestra opened (in matching suits!) and no doubt earned some new fans, and ESO drummer Lindsey Elias reappeared at the end of Helio’s main set [...]
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Portland-based hip-hop/magic/comedy band Chicharones are headlining the big “Madhappy Freak Show” at the Domino Room Saturday night. I spoke with band principals Josh Martinez and Sleep, who aren’t your average MCs, that’s for sure. For example:
“We’re bringing … exploding cigarettes and a bunch of other random things that we’ve brought together,” said one half of [...]
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Per Bret Grier at Random Presents, tickets to see hard-core troubadour Steve Earle on June 29 at the Tower Theatre are “95% sold out.” So if you want one, you’d better hurry up and click here.
Check out some of my favorite Earle songs by clicking here.
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The NBA kicks off its championship round tonight, and on Frequency, that means one thing: Local hip-hop duo Top Shelf is back with its second annual NBA Finals preview. Pay attention, because MCs Amsterdam and Middle know their roundball, and they love to talk about roundball. Translation: This is long and packed with knowledge, so [...]
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You have absolutely no excuse to not go see some live music tonight. Check out these options:
–At the Tower Theatre, the second installment of the PDXchange Program features Portland’s The Helio Sequence, a band I praised at length here. Special bonus: local alien-rockers Empty Space Orchestra open the show! 8 p.m., $15 (plus venue fees).
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Don’t forget: Tonight, 7 p.m., free, McMenamins Old St. Francis School. Local bluegrassers Blackstrap celebrate the release of their new album “Tales from the American Roadside.” Here’s my story on the band from last week’s GO! Magazine. An excerpt:
At a time when lots of so-called bluegrass bands stretch the boundaries of the genre, it’s Blackstrap’s [...]
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Bendistillery Martini Bar, Velvet, the neon glow of the Tower Theatre, roller girls and Cloaked Characters … this video, shot by Chris Kas at Rage, nicely captures late-night downtown Bend. The song is from CCZ’s new album “Let Me In,” which you can read more about here.
That’s local singer-songwriter JoAnna Lee on the hook, by [...]
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Late-summer festival lineups are starting to take shape, and here are a few that might matter to you.
–MusicfestNW is tons of fun and will go down Sept. 9-12 in a bunch of clubs (and, new this year, Pioneer Courthouse Square) around Portland. There are lots of Portland bands here and lots of indie rock, with [...]
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Very, very solid show last night by Band of Horses. I have one complaint, but it’s relatively minor and I’ll save it (as well as my thoughts on She & Him) for my review in Friday’s GO! Magazine. For now, let’s look at some pretty pictures by The Bulletin’s Ryan Brennecke, who was a busy [...]
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I couldn’t make it to Les Schwab Amphitheater last night to watch the Goo Goo Dolls kick off the 2010 Bend Summer Concerts series. Parenthood called. But Bulletin photographer Ryan Brennecke was there, and he came back with some terrific photos of the band and what appears to be a quite bundled-up crowd. Be sure [...]
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Fairly ginormous week of music in Central Oregon, isn’t it? This is awesome! Let’s jump in …
(I am currently obsessed with this song.)
Band-on-the-verge Band of Horses plays at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend on Sunday. I chatted with head Horse Ben Bridwell — one of the nicest musicians I’ve interviewed, I might add — about [...]
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On Sunday evening, indie-pop-rockers She & Him — otherwise known as actress Zooey Deschanel and musician M. Ward — will co-headline Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater with Band of Horses. (Grab today’s GO! Magazine to read a feature story on Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell. Or click here.)
She & Him released their sophomore album, “Volume Two,” [...]
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(Note: This is kind of long, so please be sure to click below to see the whole thing, including three videos from the show of Horse Feathers performing and one of the Sweet Harlots.)
I don’t know whether PDXchange Program organizer Henry Abel considers his inaugural show — Portland-based quartet Horse Feathers, Tuesday night at the [...]
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… the Goo Goo Dolls are playing “Iris” on their current tour, at least if this video from a show last week in Minneapolis is to be believed:
In other news, no fewer than 30 videos containing the search term “Goo Goo Dolls” have been uploaded to YouTube in the past 24 hours. Don’t let anyone [...]
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When is attending a concert more than just attending a concert? When attending said concert may lead to other concerts by bigger and better bands down the road. That’s the situation Bend finds itself in tomorrow night with Horse Feathers at the Tower Theatre.
Don’t get me wrong, seeing Horse Feathers is reason enough to buy [...]
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Portland’s Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside played to a pretty full house Wednesday night at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend. Things were kind of slow-going at first; there were lots of folks seated at tables, with the standing crowd behind them, afraid to move up and block their view. After a few [...]
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Details are on Frequency’s Facebook page, which you can find by clicking here.
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Portland indie-folk band Horse Feathers kicks off the new PDXchange Program concert series at the Tower Theatre. I spoke with head Feather Justin Ringle, and here’s an excerpt:
In the past couple of years, though, things have changed for Ringle.
He moved from one part of Portland to another. He changed band members; both (Peter and Heather [...]
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As you may have heard, Portland’s newest buzz band, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, is playing a free show at Bend’s McMenamins Old St. Francis School at 7 tonight. Be there or be square, friends. And until then, familiarize yourself with Sallie’s sound by giving her a listen and reading the following interview with [...]
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Folks aren’t used to seeing Franchot Tone out front of a musical project. The Bend resident is best known as the co-founder of the groovy roots-reggae outfit Culver City Dub Collective, and locally, he made a splash a couple years ago by producing singer-songwriter Reed Thomas Lawrence’s self-titled album, which helped propel Lawrence to the [...]
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No pretty videos today, folks. Sorry about that. It’s just that things are ramping up on the local music scene, and these next several weeks are going to be crazy busy. After I’m done with this, I have to write about Horse Feathers and e-mail Sallie Ford and decide how to cover She & Him [...]
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The High & Dry Bluegrass Festival is now in its fourth year of kicking string-band butt on some acreage over by the Bend Airport. By all accounts, High & Dry is a great time, with terrific traditional bluegrass music, awesome people and a convivial atmosphere. And did I mention the cost? A $10 bill gets [...]
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There’s a ton of live-music options out there tonight, more than any Thursday I can remember. I’ll recap at the bottom of this post, but first, something I didn’t write about in last week’s paper, because I didn’t know about it:
This looks dope. Lots of good, local, eclectic music that’s beat-driven, but perfect for chilling [...]
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Got your answer right here. Click on the band names to learn more and hear their music:
June 13 – The Lights Out and Rosa’s Buds
June 27 – Empty Space Orchestra
July 4 – The Staxx Brothers
July 11 – Mingo Fishtrap
July 18 – Paul Thorn
July 25 – Great American Taxi
Aug. 1 – The Stolen Sweets
Aug. 8 – [...]
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It’s kind of hard to believe, but today marks the Frequency blog’s first birthday. One year ago, we kicked this thing off with the hope that it would become a comprehensive source of music-related news and reviews for Central Oregon.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with Frequency at 1 year old. But there is always room for [...]
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Well, this is fortuitous: I was already stoked to see Portland’s throwback-soul/pop outfit Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside on May 19 at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend. Now, the quartet has been chosen as Portland’s best new band, according to Willamette Week, which polls a bunch of scenesters over there and tallies [...]
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I finally made it out to the big Last Band Standing battle of the bands last night. It was the third week/round of the event; the first round happened on the night my daughter was born, and I skipped last week in favor of staying home and continuing to practice being a dad.
By last night, [...]
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Portland indie-pop combo The Ascetic Junkies are back in town, Saturday at Silver Moon. I spoke with founding members Matt Harmon and Kali Giaritta about their band’s past, present and future, plus something called “Junkies Cologne.” Here’s an excerpt:
So the couple landed in Portland and found one band mate on Craigslist and another busking on [...]
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Portland’s full of bands who’ve become pretty big names over the past several years. Think Blind Pilot, Blitzen Trapper, The Decemberists, etc.
Of course, at one time, those bands weren’t so widely known. Wouldn’t it have been cool to see them back then?
In my opinion, that’s about where The Ascetic Junkies are right now. The Portland-based [...]
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In case you missed it, the beautifully hushed, Portland-based indie-folk band Horse Feathers is coming to the Tower Theatre May 25 to kick off the new PDXchange Program series, which aims to bring the Rose City’s indie bands to Bend’s stately downtown stage, and pair them with local openers.
Horse Feathers’ new album, “Thistled Spring,” is [...]
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Busy Monday morning, folks, so I’m going to keep it short: Local fave Michael Franti & Spearhead will return to Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater on Aug. 5, and that’s a good thing, because even if you’re not a big fan of Franti’s music, it’s hard not to have fun at one of his shows. His [...]
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Bend faves Head for the Hills return to town to play their biggest gig yet, a headlining slot at the Domino Room. My colleague Alandra Johnson talked to bassist Matt Loewen to find out how working with a very famous producer affected the band’s new, self-titled album.
The album also marked the first time the band [...]
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This just came across the world-wide intertubes from Tim Cash of Bend’s FARfromEARTH Films: Check out the brand new, sharp-lookin’ video for Bend-based roots/blues singer-songwriter Leif James‘ tune “Here I Go,” filmed yesterday at Leif’s house.
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Barenaked Ladies — the cheeky Canadian band best known for their hits “One Week,” “If I Had $1000000″ and “Brian Wilson” — will perform July 17 at Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater. The date popped up in the past few days on the band’s website and tour-date database Pollstar, and this morning, Monqui Presents confirmed the [...]
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We’re still taking advantage of Ben’s absence by posting stuff on the blog without his knowledge. That’s what you get for having babies!
Today, it’s a song from Portland rock band El Salvador. The band is working on booking a Central Oregon show, or so guitarist Nick Krautter says. This would be a good thing. El [...]
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With Ben away (presumably trying to string more than 20 minutes of sleep together at one time — we hear babies are a real drag on the old sleep cycle), we’re still posting whatever crazy stuff we feel like here on Frequency. Chaos!
But here’s a warning: Today’s content could potentially waste hours of your precious [...]
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Hello out there! We’re still hijacking Ben’s blog while he’s home changing diapers or something. In honor of the glorious weather this weekend, here’s a song created by actual rocket scientists from NASA (The Chromatics, a group formed by employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center). Who says nerds can’t sing? Enjoy the sun, people!
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Happy Friday, Frequency fans! Ben’s out today, proud papa of a brand new baby girl. In honor of the happy occasion, his colleagues at The Bulletin are hijacking the blog!
First up is this classic cover from The Ramones, in honor of Baby Salmon. Congrats, Ben!
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Hey there, folks. Shorter update this week than usual because I’ve got a brand new baby at home and am a tad busy. For that same reason, it may be a bit quiet around here for a little while. This is our first, so I expect a sharp learning curve and reduced time for blogging.
Anyway, [...]
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Frequency contributor Ethan Maffey checked out the Bend Spring Festival Saturday night and filed this report. Be sure to read all the way through and then check out the video Ethan shot of Eugene’s Rootdown:
This past weekend, the popular Bend neighborhood NorthWest Crossing hosted a scaled-down version of the typical seasonal downtown festival. From the [...]
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A few weeks ago, I participated in a panel discussion about culture in Central Oregon for “Right Here, Right Now,” a program on Bend’s community radio station, KPOV.
Also on the panel were Maralyn Thoma, owner of 2nd Street Theater, Linda Spring, who’s active in the local alternative arts scene, and Bob Woodward, who’s been involved [...]
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Hey, you at the computer! Do me a favor, OK? Minimize your iTunes and shut down your BitTorrent client. Let your CD burner cool off for a minute.
It’s time to talk about Record Store Day, a nationwide celebration of local, independent shops that’ll sell you music on (mostly) CD and vinyl.
Record Store Day is Saturday, [...]
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Portland’s Pink Snowflakes return to town Saturday night for a show at Silver Moon Brewing with The Quick & Easy Boys. I caught up with head Snowflake Andrew Rossi to talk about the origins of the band’s acid-streaked psych-rock and what their upcoming album is going to sound like. Here’s an excerpt:
The new album also [...]
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Michigan-based indie-folk combo Frontier Ruckus played at Bend’s McMenamins venue last night, and I really don’t know what else to say. In last week’s paper, I said this show had a chance to be “special.” I was wrong. It wasn’t special. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t special. It just was.
Head Frontiersman Matthew Milia writes [...]
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I just got off the phone with Jennifer Meyer at Combined Communications, who’s the driving force behind the Last Band Standing event that begins April 22 at Boondocks Bar & Grill in Bend. The first thing she said to me was that this isn’t really a battle of the bands, but more of a showcase [...]
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Frontier Ruckus is a band from Michigan that blends the beautiful indie-folk sensibilities of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Bright Eyes with the string-band aesthetic of The Avett Brothers. And these songs … well, let’s just say I hadn’t even heard of Frontier Ruckus until a couple weeks ago, but I feel like I’ve [...]
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To me, at least, Sara Jackson-Holman came out of nowhere. The 21-year-old singer, songwriter and pianist — from Bend, but currently attending Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. — played a local gig back on New Year’s Day, and I got word of it just in time to write this article about her for GO! Magazine.
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You may know him as KG, Jack Black’s comic foil in Tenacious D, but did you know Kyle Gass has another band, too? I didn’t. But he does, and it’s called Trainwreck. Like the D, Trainwreck is a bombastic mix of rock and comedy, or as Gass calls it, “a cornucopia of rock and a [...]
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This video, shot by Larry and His Flask superfan Nicole Mintiens (aka Tregesy), captures the chaos of last night’s show at Silver Moon much more vividly than my still photographs. This was a scene unlike any I’ve seen in four years of covering music in Bend. It was pure, unbridled insanity, and it was inspirational [...]
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Oregon hard-rock legends Floater are back in town this weekend, this time for two shows — electric tonight and acoustic on Saturday — at Mountain’s Edge. Frontman Rob Wynia agreed to an e-mail interview and then answered all my questions in a way that surely set a record for correct grammar usage in a band [...]
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Before their collaborative gig with Reed Thomas Lawrence tonight, it feels like there’s enough going on in the Cloaked Characters camp to warrant a comprehensive update. It’s going to be a busy spring and summer for one of Bend’s hardest working acts.
First up is the show tonight, billed as The RTL Project, with special guests [...]
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Bend’s live-music scene should be hoppin’ tonight with the big Supersuckers show at the Domino Room, Sisters singer-songwriter Brent Alan and His Funky Friends holding down the free show at McMenamins Old St. Francis School, the Pink Floyd tribute band House of Floyd at the Tower Theatre, and more.
As if that isn’t enough, Silver Moon [...]
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Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom has a show tonight that didn’t get a lot of ink in last week’s GO! Magazine, but is definitely worth your attention.
First, the unfamiliar: Slow Trucks, a trio out of San Francisco that makes perfectly fuzzy, throwback indie rock that would’ve fit nicely on Merge Records in its ’90s heyday. [...]
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I know what you’re thinking: Your band is awesome, ready to tour the world and play your songs for people in towns not called “Bend,” “Redmond” and “Sisters.” The only thing holding you back from total world domination is your lack of wheels. Or, at least, wheels that’ll hold you and your handful of hygienically [...]
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Yes, Band of Horses is coming to Bend on May 30, and yes, they’ll co-headline with She & Him, whose new video we also showed you, here.
You are welcome to be more excited about She & Him if you like. As for me, I’m infinitely more stoked to see Band of Horses, whose first two [...]
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That’s right, two tickets to see Seattle’s Supersuckers on Wednesday at the Domino Room in Bend, up for grabs. Enter at Frequency’s Facebook fan page. While you’re there, become a fan!
Here’s a taste of the band, if you’re unfamiliar:
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Local boys done good Larry and His Flask will play a home show at Silver Moon Brewing next week. I talked to beast-of-a-bassist Jesse Marshall about the band’s recent stint opening for Celtic-punk kingpins Dropkick Murphys between New Jersey and Texas, and what it’s meant for the band. Here’s an excerpt:
For the past two years, [...]
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Mid-August, 2009, on the streets of New York City:
Late February, 2010, at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, N.J.:
More details on how they got from there to here in tomorrow’s GO! Magazine and here on Frequency. Plus, when and where you can see them in Bend next week, which you’ll want to do before [...]
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OK, it’s been a couple weeks since our last video update from Bend-based blues-rock band Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers‘ trip to Los Angeles to play at the world-famous Whisky a Go Go club in Hollywood. (Here are parts one and two.) It took ‘em a while to edit this, and by now, [...]
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If you were planning on seeing the veteran NYC ska band The Slackers Tuesday at Mountain’s Edge in Bend, you’re out of luck. It’s not happening.
I know. I’m bummed, too.
The show appeared solidly booked for a long time, but in the past few days, I spoke to Ben Mann (who originally booked the gig) and [...]
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In a pretty amazing coincidence, there are no fewer than three CD-release shows by local artists tonight in Central Oregon. (Four if you count Mai from Moon Mountain Rambler’s shindig at Three Creeks Brewing Co., in Sisters, but he’s working up to a bigger event in a few weeks, so he can wait.)
I know what [...]
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Now there’s a headline I never would’ve guessed I’d be writing.
But it’s true. Per the Old Mill District’s Twitter, today’s two additions to the Schwab’s Bend Summer Concerts series are ’90s alt-rock stars Goo Goo Dolls on May 28, and country music veteran Clint Black on Aug. 29.
Tickets will go on sale on April 3. [...]
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Local guitarist and singer-songwriter Gary Fulkerson has a CD-release show planned for Saturday at Silver Moon Brewing. The guy was also one of my favorite interviews in a long time. For an hour, we talked about music, fear, doubt, triumph … and doughnuts. Here’s a taste:
“Emotionally and creatively, I felt as though I wasn’t really [...]
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It was quite the scene last night in Father Luke’s Room at Bend’s McMenamins Old St. Francis School, where the Portland Cello Project played for a crowd so big it spilled — no, flooded — out into the hallway.
When I arrived at 7:30 p.m., it was impossible to even get near the door of the [...]
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(Note: I hoped to get this review into Friday’s GO! Magazine, but we’ve run out of space, so I’m posting it here. It’s been a full week since the show, but better late than never. All photos by Ben.)
Words can’t convey the feeling that filled the Sisters High School auditorium March 16 when Trombone Shorty [...]
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Attention, fans of indie rock: If you’re still hoping for additional Sasquatch-related shows to come to Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater over Memorial Day weekend, don’t hold your breath. I have a feeling that the May 30 Band of Horses / She & Him show is going to be it. (Mind you, “it” is pretty great: [...]
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First things first:
Tonight, there are a whole bunch of ways to help the people of Haiti in downtown Bend. The centerpiece is a concert at the Tower Theatre featuring David Jacobs-Strain, Rootdown, Reed Thomas Lawrence and Eric Tollefson. There’s also a pre-party before the show at the Astro Lounge, and an afterparty happening at the [...]
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Just announced by Random Presents: Roots-rock icon Steve Earle will play a solo acoustic show at the Tower Theatre in Bend on June 29. Tickets go on sale “soon,” according to Random’s Web site, and cost $35 and $45. More details here.
Whether you think of him as an alt-country godfather, left-leaning political activist or Walon [...]
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Friend of Frequency Ethan Maffey checked out Ashland’s One Horse Shy last weekend at Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom in Bend and filed this report. Be sure to check out the videos at the end.
Ashland-based country sextet One Horse Shy returned to Bend last weekend to perform a CD-release show for their new album “Better [...]
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Seattle-based singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile played an excellent set in front of a sold-out Tower Theatre last night in Bend, and she’ll do the same tonight. (Well, I don’t know if the set will be excellent, but I think it’s a safe bet. I do know tonight’s show is also sold out.)
Anyway, Bulletin photographer Ryan Brennecke [...]
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It would take just a quick scan of my CD collection to know that Alex Chilton is a deity in my musical mind. Many of my favorite artists — Brendan Benson, Teenage Fanclub, The New Pornographers, Fountains of Wayne, Wilco and Sloan among them — are direct descendants of the power-pop genius behind The Box [...]
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Sure, St. Pat’s is on a Wednesday night this year, but that shouldn’t stop you from going out and having at least a little bit of fun. Downtown should be hopping tonight, what with the sold-out Brandi Carlile show at the Tower Theatre in addition to all the St. Patrick’s Day festivities going on at [...]
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Local pop-punk quartet Tuck And Roll celebrated the release of its new album “Time To Run” at Bend’s Players Bar & Grill Friday night. I’ve gushed plenty about these guys (see here and here), so it suffices to say that they were 100-percent awesome, ripping through almost every song on the new record and last [...]
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Don’t forget: “Supafunkrock” band Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue is performing in Sisters tonight. I’m looking forward to this: a steamy, stomping slice of one of America’s most important music cities, New Orleans, come to life on a high school stage in a quaint New West town. It should be quite the sight.
Shorty sings, plays [...]
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If you’d like to buy tickets to see Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard or the Steve Miller Band at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend, you certainly can. Click here for all the details.
But if you’d like to win two free general admission tickets to each of those three shows, read on.
Wait, what? Two free tickets? To [...]
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Tickets for three shows in Les Schwab Amphitheater’s Bend Summer Concerts series will go on sale today at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets, including 866-866-4502, www.ticketmaster.com, and The Ticket Mill (541-318-5457) in the Old Mill District in Bend. Here are the details for each show. Prices are subject to additional service charges.
Friday, Sept. 17: [...]
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(All photos by Ben. Look for more soon in Frequency’s Flickr pool.)
Igor & Red Elvises have become very familiar faces in Bend over the past few years.
I never saw ‘em, but lots of people have. And the advice I’ve heard from those people was pretty much unanimous. Something along the lines of: “Oh, you have [...]
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Brandi Carlile sold out two shows at the Tower Theatre next week, but we put her on the cover of GO! Magazine anyway. Because she’s great. And she loves Bend. And Bend loves her. Here’s Carlile’s recollection of her gig opening for Sheryl Crow here in 2008:
“I remember she was late to the gig and [...]
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The National’s “High Violet” isn’t out for two more months, but the Cincinnati-via-Brooklyn band stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s house last night to debut one of its tunes, called “Terrible Love.” In doing so, they pushed my level of excitement for this album through the roof. This is classic National: brooding vocals, killer drums, shards of [...]
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If you’re unfamiliar with the Bend-bound folk-pop duo She & Him, here’s the new video for their song “In The Sun,” the first single from their new album, “Volume Two,” to be released on March 23 by Merge Records.
She & Him and Band of Horses will co-headline Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend on May 30. [...]
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Here’s something a little different to do on a Thursday night: The film “Playing for Change: Peace Through Music” will be shown twice tomorrow night at the Domino Room in Bend. Proceeds will benefit Bend’s community radio station, KPOV.
Screenings are at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., with doors opening 30 minutes before each showing. Tickets at [...]
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You may or may not have noticed that I don’t tend to scramble to post here on Frequency after the death of a prominent musician. (I will often retweet the news on Frequency’s Twitter.)
It’s not that I don’t think death is blog-worthy — I do — it’s just that news moves ridiculously fast these days, [...]
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We’re giving away two tickets to see Band of Horses and She & Him May 30 at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend. The contest ends at noon today. Click here to enter.
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The Bend-based blues-rock band Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers headed down to Los Angeles to play at the world-famous Whisky a Go Go club in Hollywood, and they’re keeping a video diary of the journey for Frequency. Here’s part two, “Family Day,” which includes some cooking tips from guitarist Tim Schroeder and the [...]
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Frequency: The Bulletin's music blog
The Bend-based blues-rock band Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers are heading down to Los Angeles to play at the world-famous Whisky a Go Go club in Hollywood, and they’re keeping a video diary of the journey for Frequency. Here’s part one, which features Sigur Ros, Flight of the Conchords, some bathroom humor and [...]
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No offense to the other contests we’ve had here on Frequency, but this one is the coolest so far: We’re giving away two tickets to see the just-announced Band of Horses / She & Him / Dawes show happening May 30 at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend!
If you haven’t heard of those bands, click their [...]
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The Chris Berry Trio visits Bend this weekend and brings along jam-rock super-guitarist Steve Kimock! Berry’s story is fascinating. He traveled to Africa to study music, became a pop star, and fled for his life in 2001. We talked about the reaction he got from Zimbabweans as his career took off.
“(They) had never seen a [...]
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The subject line says it all: Country legend Willie Nelson will return to Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater on Sept. 17, per the Old Mill District. Tickets will go on sale a week from tomorrow, and details on ticket prices are coming Monday.
Last time Willie was in Bend, in 2007, his adoring throng of hippies, bikers, [...]
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A little over a month ago, I told you that local rapper The Dirtball had officially joined the popular SoCal rap-rock group Kottonmouth Kings.
Tonight, as the Kings prepare to take the stage somewhere in Osaka, Japan, I’ve got the details behind that union, straight from David Alexander, the man behind the Dirtball persona.
When he’s not [...]
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Got something better? Post a link in the comments! Until then, behold the power of My Morning Jacket, circa 2003.
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The Sisters Starry Nights benefit concert series has raised more than $900,000 in net proceeds for activities in Sisters schools during its 12-year history, but the popular series will take a hiatus in 2010, co-chair Jeri Fouts said last week.
Fouts and her fellow co-chair Susan Arends plan to bring Starry Nights back in 2011, and [...]
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Do you realize that right now, on the Internet, you can (freely and legally) stream brand new albums by Broken Bells (aka James “Shins” Mercer and Danger Mouse), Gorillaz, Frightened Rabbit, Johnny Cash, Rogue Wave, The Morning Benders, High on Fire, Little Boots, Shooter Jennings, Quasi, Toumani Diabate and Ali Farka Toure, Joanna Newsom, Eluvium, [...]
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Welcome, fan of great music! You’ve reached Frequency’s effort to show Monqui Presents and the Les Schwab Amphitheater there are tons of people who’d like to see the band Pavement play in Bend.
The 2010 lineup at the Schwab so far includes Merle Haggard and the Steve Miller Band. Sounds like a pretty good time to [...]
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Suzanne Vega plays at the Tower Theatre on Sunday. I talked to her about her new “Close-Up” project, in which she’s re-recording dozens of her songs. Here’s an excerpt:
Re-recording the songs acoustically was in part an economic decision. But Vega also liked the idea of reinventing them.
“I had no interest in doing a cover version [...]
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Just in from the Old Mill District’s Twitter: South Carolina indie-roots-rockers Band of Horses will play May 30 at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend. Also, they’ll bring along a “special guest” to be revealed next week.
This is terrific news. In tomorrow’s GO! Magazine, I’ll have a column lamenting the lack of great rock bands at [...]
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This show was announced too late to get much play in last week’s GO! Magazine, but it oughta be a wicked good time. Longtime local DJ Moksha will open (and close) the night with some of the “weirdest, heaviest, least accessible” records in his crate, and Warm Gadget will provide the meat in this electro-thrash [...]
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I was goofing off on the Internet recently and ran across this high-quality, multi-camera video of Eric Tollefson and band playing “Battle For the Sea” at the Domino Room last September, when they opened for G. Love & Special Sauce. (Review here.) Check it out if you’re a Tollefson fan, or you’re unfamiliar with him [...]
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I used to think the big music bookings at the Deschutes County fair existed in a funny little bubble, unaffected by the kinds of acts that are popular at other venues. But given the two Les Schwab Amphitheater headliners we know about for 2010 — Merle Haggard and the Steve Miller Band — perhaps I [...]
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If you’re not on Twitter, you might’ve missed it, but the Space Cowboy himself will roll into the Schwab on July 16, per the Old Mill District:
For the record, I called this one … granted, I was two years off, but whatever. I stand by what I said in that article: If I got to [...]
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Last Friday, after watching The Gourds warm up Bend WinterFest, I hightailed it over to Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom in Bend to catch Austin, Texas singer-songwriter Danny Malone, whose work I’ve grown to really enjoy ever since his new album, “Cuddlebug,” showed up on my desk a couple weeks back.
I arrived at the Moon [...]
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You won’t find this in today’s GO! Magazine, because … well, I blew it. Plus, I didn’t know all the details. But whatever, this looks like a super-fun time: Local DJs, bPollen and Calicoleaf will provide some “soothing digital and analog soundwave massage” fer yer gray matter at 7 p.m. tonight at Top Leaf Mate [...]
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New York City ska pioneers The Toasters will play twice at Mountain’s Edge this weekend, once on Friday and once Saturday. Here’s a clip of my conversation with founding member and frontman Robert “Bucket” Hingley:
GO!: I read somewhere about your efforts to run The Toasters according to a set of core principles. Can you tell [...]
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For my money, the best concert in Bend over the past four years was Wilco’s mind-blowing, marathon performance at Les Schwab Amphitheater in 2008. (Read my review of that show here.) So when I saw that Jeff Tweedy and the boys were playing in an entirely different kind of venue last week — a historic [...]
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Bulletin photographer Rob Kerr attended The Gourds’ set at Bend WinterFest last weekend and came away with some terrific shots of the band. Thanks, Rob! Be sure to click below the first couple to see the rest, click here for video from the show, and look for my full review in Friday’s GO! Magazine.
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That’s right, we’re giving away two tickets to this Friday night’s Moonalice concert at the Domino Room in Bend, plus a copy of the band’s self-titled CD, over at Frequency’s Facebook page. Click here to enter, and while you’re there, be a fan!
Hurry … I’m going to pick a winner tonight or tomorrow morning.
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Go see your local wrecked-rock dealers Problem Stick tomorrow night at Silver Moon, OK? With a cool flyer like this, they deserve your patronage. (Please note: The show will start around 8 p.m., not 9 p.m.)
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So you wanna party for Fat Tuesday, eh? It appears Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom (24 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend) has a heck of a party planned. Details after this video of the San Francisco micro-circus / clatter-funk-rock band Gooferman, who’ll play at the popular Bend pub tonight:
Check out other videos on YouTube to see [...]
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The lineup for the 2010 Sasquatch music festival, scheduled for May 29-31 at The Gorge in Washington, was announced tonight at The Crocodile in Seattle. Here it is, per this poster, posted by the Ear Candy blog:
My Morning Jacket, Massive Attack, Pavement, Ween, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Band of Horses, The National, LCD Soundsystem, Tegan & [...]
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(Sorry this is showing up three days after the concert. I like to be more timely than that, but sometimes other duties call.)
Over here, I encouraged folks attending the Slightly Stoopid concert Wednesday night at the Midtown Ballroom in Bend to show up early and catch the opening act, L.A.’s The Aggrolites, who play a [...]
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Here’s video of Austin, Texas band The Gourds playing “Hallelujah Shine” last night at Bend WinterFest. Look for some still photos from the show here on the blog in the next day or so, and my full review will appear in Friday’s GO! Magazine.
(Note: Frontman Kev Russell does let fly with a dirty word at [...]
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As I’ve said a few times already, the Bend Roots Revival is a special, special thing, a grassroots celebration of local arts that has grown organically over four years from simple get-together to one of the very best events in an event-heavy town. (Read my extensive recap of the 2009 festival here.)
So last September, it [...]
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There are a lot of options out there this weekend for music-loving Central Oregonians, and that’s great. But I want to take a quick look at four shows — two tonight, two Saturday night — that provide an interesting contrast in styles and an interesting study in the kind of live-music experience people want to [...]
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Lots of local rock ‘n’ roll this week!
The Sofa Kings will play both Friday and Saturday night at Black Horse Saloon in Bend. Here’s an excerpt from my story on the band:
In a world where too many rock bands try to spice up their sound with disparate ingredients, The Sofa Kings are content to rock. [...]
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If you’re on the Internet today, you may have noticed that the ginormous Tennessee music festival Bonnaroo is taking no fewer than NINE HOURS to announce its lineup, one excruciating band at a time. I’m all for creative announcements and hit-count-inflating promotional efforts, but it’s pretty ridiculous, really.
But, people are interested. You may be too. [...]
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The Sisters Folk Festival may happen over three days in September, but the team behind the event works year-round on what has become perhaps Central Oregon’s biggest and best music-focused extravaganza.
That’s why headliners for the 2010 folk fest are starting to pop up, even though it’s February.
The big names so far include master Americana singer-songwriter [...]
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Football game? What football game?
OK, yeah, there’s a football game today. But there are also still people in Haiti who need our help. So if you have no interest in the Super Bowl, head down to the Domino Room (51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend) for “Rise Up & Rebuild,” a Haiti benefit concert organized by [...]
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My sister, Emily, and brother-in-law, Ryan, live in Lexington, Kentucky with their new puppy, which they’ve named Chesney. Yes, that Chesney. So they’re pretty big fans of country music.
They’re also, like most Kentuckians, lifelong fans of the University of Kentucky basketball team, which is currently 21-1 and ranked No. 3 or 4 in the country, [...]
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In Miami on Sunday, a football squad known as the New Orleans Grocery Bag Heads will tangle on the gridiron with a football squad called the Indianapolis Mannings for the title of best football squad in all the land. Both teams are led by top-notch quarterbacks and both teams thank their lucky stars for a [...]
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This week in GO! Magazine’s music section
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Frequency: The Bulletin's music blog
Yesterday afternoon, whoever runs the Old Mill District’s Twitter account tweeted this:
Suggestions began pouring in, ranging from Willie Nelson, Keith Urban and Chris Isaak to Vampire Weekend, Coldplay and Spoon to Yo La Tengo, Thao Nguyen and Sade. So far, Cake has been not only seconded, but thirded! To see them all, click here. (I [...]
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I’ll have one in Friday’s GO! Magazine.
Sneak preview: This was the best moment of the night. Actually, this is pretty much all you need to know:
But come back on Friday and read my recap anyway.
(Thanks, goldenfiddle.)
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