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more than just music, marisha pessl 2007-05-06 18:46:57
Can she write or is all the attention because she’s “The latest Hot Young Thing writer.” Who knows, but she’s on The New York Times Notable Books list. You can decide because Marisha Pessl will be at Powells in Beaverton Monday May 7th reading from her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills, 7 pm, FREE
If you’re not sure here’s some excerpts from Marisha’s MySpace site:
About me:
I’m the author of the prep-school-confidential thriller, SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS. A lot of ya’ll have asked if it’s REALLY me. Ya. It is.
Who I’d like to meet:
Readers, dreamers, philosophers, rockstars, S. Coppola, D. Barrymore, C. Eastwood, S. Mendes, Spielberg, C. Deneuve, et tout le monde. (That’s French for “all the world” - she has high hopes - DA.)
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blitzen trapper hits the sasquatch festival 2007-05-02 01:57:16
Portland band, Blitzen Trapper, do the honors this year at one of the Northwest’s finest festivals - Sasquatch.
Click to hear their cover of Crazy on You.
Download audio file (Crazy-On-You.mp3)
Richmond Fontaine in Harp 2007-05-21 17:43:36
The band Richmond
Fountaine is featured in the new issue of Harp Magazine. The group is touring Europe throughout May but will return to Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge on June 23rd for a hometown CD release show celebrating their new album Thirteen Cities. Click this link to see a video of their beautiful instrumental El Tiradito.
Decemberists, Menomena at the Edgefield 2007-05-30 13:23:22
While McMenamins Edgefield has not officially added Menomena
to their web site, Menomena’s MySpace page indicates that they will be sharing the bill with the Decemberists on July 22nd.
Menomena has had an amazing year since the release of their new CD friend and foe. The band was in New York earlier this month and perfomed in Jaun’s Basement for Plum TV in Brooklyn, NY.
viva voce @ sasquatch 2007-06-05 09:20:24
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Portland was well represented at this years’ Sasquatch Festival. Blitzen Trapper, Viva Voce, Helio Sequence, Dandy Warhols and Spoon all made the grade. Here’s some footage of Viva Voce doing their crowd pleasing thing.
born in portland, baked in tuscon…tape op 2007-06-08 14:56:23
Recording music is taken seriously at Tape Op..
So the Tape Op conference is under way and a quick run through the vendor area finds hundreds of grown men [this conf is women-light, go figure,] drooling over racks of compressors, mixers, mics, speakers and amps. All I can think is that using these components these days makes for a very expensive way to record music that will be instantly turned into a 128kb MP3 file&hellip
;.
M Ward June 30th 2007-06-08 13:22:12
While M Ward is one of the few big names in music to move away from Portland we Oregonians still call him one of our own. Besides he hasn’t had much time to hang out in his new home state (New Hampshire) since landing the opening spot on the Norah Jones world tour. Matt, as we like to call him here in P-town, will be appearing with Norah at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on June 30th. For tickets and additional info click here.
sam adams and portland’s creative capacity 2007-06-13 19:16:13
There is something special about Portland. If you live here you already know that. If you don’t you’ll know sometime soon. Commissioner Sam Adams, Portland’s Art & Culture Czar, drew more than 300 people from the creative
community last night to the Gerding Theatre to discuss in person his ideas for unlocking the city’s ‘creative capacity’ as he calls it. What does he mean by creative capacity? Read on…from Sam’s web site -
“What is Creative Capacity? Creativity helps make Portland a better place to live, a stronger competitor in the global marketplace and an incubator of innovation. An individual artist in a studio, a software firm start-up, a theatre company, a research and development arm, a manufacturing company—Creative Capacity is the ability of these endeavors ability to be more innovative, more creative and more successful. Strengthening this capacity to innovate has tremendous potential to contribute more to our com
portland’s tram - an ode in music 2007-06-13 19:09:10
Good Magazine asked a musician to write and then sing a love song to the Portland tram…check it out.
a new band in town, the weather machines 2007-06-14 17:01:53
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The Weather Machines hail from Rapid City, South Dakota and now find themselves in sunny Portland. Click the image to watch a video of their song Stains of Saints.
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Tegan and Sara July 20 2007-06-14 16:39:25
The Canadian indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara are coming back to Portland to play the Bagdad Theater in late July. Earlier this year they teamed with Portland producer (and Death Cab for Cutie guitarist) Chris Walla to record their follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed CD So Jealous. Their latest project titled The Con was recorded at the PDX uber-studio Kung Fu Bakery and is scheduled to be officially released just after their Portland appearance.
6:30 door, 7:30 p.m. showtime | $20 advance, $25 day of show | All ages
Buy tickets here
exclusive video from boy eats drum machine 2007-06-20 19:05:44
Mr Jonny Ragel from Portland’s fabulous Boy Eats Drum Machine came by the Moose today with the video
for 3000 Flares, a cut from the new album Two Ghosts. Check back here for all the updates on the CD release, the vinyl, the Doug Fir CD release show and a special invite-only show at the Moose warehouse.
3000 Flares. [4.5mb]
3000 Flares iPod. [11mb] Formatted for iPod. NB: May not work in Safari, try Firefox.
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the may fire play @ tonic 2007-06-27 11:11:46
I discovered The May Fire through my association with Music Nation and I’m digging them a lot. In a weird coincidence they happen to be playing Portland at The Tonic on NE Sandy on Saturday July 7th and I encourage you to check them out. In the meantime check out their video for Lost Control.
modest mouse at the edgefield aug 27th 2007-06-26 16:24:08
From Paris to Tokyo and all points in between Modest Mouse will return home to do their laundry, check their mail, sleep in their own beds and play a show at the Edgefield on August 27th. After that they’re off to Ireland. With two-thirds of a tour behind them Brock, Marr and co. are sure to be in fine form for their home town gig.
Monday, August 27
McMenamins Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn
MODEST MOUSE
Love As Laughter
5 p.m. gates, 6:30 p.m. show | General admission: $39 advance (no Golden Circle tickets) | All ages welcome
Buy tickets
Pickathon indie-roots fest Aug 3-5 2007-07-03 16:13:03
The Avett Brothers/ Photo credit Tim LaBarge
The folks over at the Pickathon festival have come up with their own genre called “Indie-Roots” to describe the type of music featured at this year’s event. They define Indie-Roots as “the subjective and diverse intersections of Indie, Rock, Singer Songwriter, and a variety of traditional music styles (i.e. Bluegrass, Blues, Folk, Country, Swing, etc.)” However you describe it the lineup is is truly impressive with artists such as The Avett Brothers, Erin McKeown, The Gourds and Alela Diane. The festival also has an impressive web site with loads of festival information, video and music.
www.pickathon.com
Pickathon Roots Music Festival
August 3,4,5
Pendarvis Farm
Portland Oregon
Tickets available via the Pickathon web site
Read more:roots
Willy Vlautin 2007-07-10 16:46:27
Eclectic audio blog Aquarium Drunkard has a short little Q and A with Richmond Fontaine principal Willy
Vlautin regarding his favorite Portland haunts. The article mentions Willy’s new book Motel Life. You can also download two Richmond Fountaine MP3’s free of charge.
Boy Eats Drum Machine tomorrow 2007-07-19 13:21:16
Boy Eats Drum Machine
will celebrate their new release two ghosts with a show at the Doug Fir Lounge tomorrow
night. Local favs Dat’r and Junkface open.
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Friday July 20th, 2007
Doug Fir Lounge
Doors 8pm / Showtime 9pm
buy tickets
portland’s 94.7 fm launches local music hd radio channel 2007-07-19 11:11:21
Portland’s 94.7 FM is probably the best station in town if you measure radio stations by how much they support local music and local artists. They’ve now launched their new-fangled HD radio channels, and no, that HD does not stand for Hi Def like your TV - confused? Go to their site and check out what HD is all about. Here’s the 94.7 blurb “You told us MORE LOCAL MUSIC and we have responded! In fact we have created a whole new Radio Station that only plays Northwest Bands! Please Welcome ‘94/7 too - Independent Radio’ our first HD channel. Yes, you will need an HD Radio to listen on a regular basis, but for now, you can stream 94/7 too by clicking on the Listen Live button in the middle of the homepage at 947.fm”
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