Who throws the biggest ball of them all? You know it's Portland. We have several ballrooms to spin and bounce in and we revel in our abounding culture of local music and amazing breweries. What better way to celebrate than at the 2nd Annual Malt Ball within The Wonder Ballroom? It's an all day thing if you can handle it, with a whopping performance of 12 bands and 26 participating breweries. Or you can split it up into two sessions (2pm-7pm, 7:30-Midnight) if you're like, a wussy, or have a job or something. There is a barrel aged, [...]
OLD TIME MUSIC GATHERING KICK-OFF PARTY: CALEB KLAUDER COUNTRY BAND, WHISKEY PUPPY, NEWT PAYNE ( The Spare Room , 4830 NE 42nd) Now entering year 14, the Portland Old-Time Music Gathering is a multi-day, multi-venue affair with plenty of old-time music, workshops, square dancing, kids' stuff and more for stringband and bluegrass lovers. Kicking off this year is a totally free party at the Spare Room with Mercury faves the Caleb Klauder Country Band, along with Whiskey Puppy and Newt Payne. NED LANNAMANN Exotic Cakes by Minden [...]
Minden has been pretty busy since coming into existence sometime last year, putting out records, a head-turning video, and playing enough of their slickly dreamy shows to solidify themselves in the pop-consciousness of Kansas City. But now its time for them to go.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Click here to view the embedded video. Let's be honest, when it comes to a good music video, you really can't go wrong with uncoordinated dudes trying to sex it up on the dance floor like there's no tomorrow. > So once again, a band has utilized this formula and made a delicious dish of maledancing-con-uncoordinació n, add a some ladies who know how to dance, spandex, body hair , sparkle video effects and a bottle of Negro Modelo and you have "Gold Standard", the [...]
Minden - Gold Standard from Heuback on Vimeo . Are you feeling extremely depressed today?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Happy Halloween, folks! And a good Jesusween to all you lil angels. We’ve got a packed weekend again with JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound combining forces with White Mystery tonight at the Double Door and Mannequin Men making plans to tear it up at the Empty Bottle tomorrow night. Let's not waste anymore time. Allons-y! FRIDAY JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND [...]
In a desire to share even more great, free music with you, the Sunday Sampler offers a handful of tracks without the usual critical and biographical write-up. Less talk, more tunes. [tweetmeme] YesYou "Half of It" from the Half of It digital single [ released 5/10/11 | indie-pop ] [ download ] The Minders "Needle Doll" from the PDX Pop [...]
Cults have taken the Vampire Weekend path to indie-rock prominence: Attend an elite East Coast university, write three catchy songs, blithely toss them onto the Internet, then wait patiently -- a couple of weeks or so -- for your friends interning at New York media outlets to build up the buzz. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Cults have taken the Vampire Weekend path to indie-rock prominence: Attend an elite East Coast university, write three catchy songs, blithely toss them onto the Internet, then wait patiently -- a... Continue reading "Tonight: Cults at Riot Room, with Minden, Guards and Writer" >
By April FlemingNot everyone can resurrect their favorite band for their birthday, but not all of us are Robert Moore. On Saturday, the radio host celebrated the eighth anniversary of his belove... Continue reading "The Golden Republic, Secret Cities, the Caves and Minden -- Saturday's Sonic Spectrum Anniversary Party (review)" >
The debut 73 from Minden is now available. We pressed 500 copies in a green with a marble stripe. They turned out to look really beautiful and sound great. Minden will be doing a quick tour up to NYC in October with The Soft Reeds. Pick up this release from this hot new band while they are still available: Purchase
BY JESSE BANIONMother Nature tried in vain to ruin the patio show at the Riot Room on Friday. But our local heroes prevailed. ... Continue reading "Be/Non, Ghosty and Minden, last Friday at the Riot Room" >
For the first time in forever my inbox is down to less than 100 unread messages. Getting it below 500 took the better part of three days. What’s crazy is not that there is so much crap out there - anybody who has spent more than ten minutes looking at the internet knows that the world is full of dumb shit - but rather that out of 500+ promo emails that I’ve gotten over the past few months, there were less than 20 post-worthy submissions. I know I have some pretty [...]
Since January, Robert Moore's Sonic Spectrum Tribute Series has been chugging along at a nice monthly pace. So far, the list of artists honored by KC musicians has included Bowie, Chrissie Hynde... Continue reading "Ghosty, Minden and the Dead Girls are in for Sonic Spectrum's Beach Boys tribute" >
Every weekday, MUF offers five (5) daily downloads of free and legal MP3s. We chose these songs for you to discover, download and explore more about the artists behind them. 'Daily Downloads' via Twitter , Facebook or RSS ! (For more information on what our Daily Download is and what they mean to you go here ) Today's Free MP3s: The Cloud I'm Under - Heart On My Sleeve [ Artist Page ] [...]
After spending several years on the road singer/songwriter Casey Burge retreated from music to work on farms in the east and west of the country. He returned to his hometown of Kansas City at the end of 2010 to pursue his new band Minden . He recruited longtime friends and musical veterans Ryan Johnson (drums), Evan Houston (bass), and James Taylor (guitar) to help him realize his swollen catalog of songs. Minden quickly worked out a set and began booking performances immediately. Existing outside of fresh and cleverly-named genres, Minden plays pop music, the classic art of creating songs [...]
Here's a new slow rockin' style jam from Kansas City band Minden called that's been a soundtrack to my mellow Monday. The song is called "Swift Way On" and is the title track of a new 73 from the band due out June 21st. Right now this is the only song available from the band, but stay tuned here and to there bandcamp page if you dig their sound. Download: Minden - Swift Way On [MP3]
Novedades: Mayer Hawthorne, The War On Drugs, St. Lucia, Cassettes Won't Listen, Holy Ghost!, Germany Germany, Cashier Nº9, Alex Winston, Los Últimos Bañistas, Dale Eandhart Jr Jr, Satellites Stories, Priory, Minden, Balkans, Black Lips o The Sewing Circle. Planeta Pop se emite en el 87.6 de la FM de Madrid (Onda Latina) todos los martes de 12 a 14 horas ( directo ) y en Internet a través de Radioalterno.com y Planeta Pop . Mp3: Cassetes Won't Listen. Perfect Day | Web Mp3: Johan Agebjörn. [...]
Fresh out of Kansas City, Minden are producing the kind of pop friendly, country flecked tunes which could easily creep into your mind meat. They’ve got a single due out called ‘Swift Way On’, and you can hear it right here: ‘ Swift Way On’
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