Last year's Orchard-IODA merger brought a veritable treasure trove of great new music into our system. We've had the very pleasurable opportunity to do a fair bit of exploration over the last 13 months and thought we might share a cross section of highlights. The following playlist includes household names to ...
Storm will be performing today in Pioneer Square with Pink Martini Singer Storm Large began performing with Pink Martini in March 2011, when China Forbes took a leave of absence to undergo surgery on her vocal chords. Forbes made full recovery and both she and Large continue to perform with Pink Martini. I always hoped we could find a way to collaborate. She is a brilliant, beautiful, charismatic and seductive star who would give Jayne Mansfield a run for her money. While we are disappointed that [...]
The folks at legendary East German youth radio station DT64 were the first to air songs by GDR blues rockers Keimzeit in 1980, though their first album – titled Irrenhaus (Loony Bin) was only released ten years later, when the Wall finally had vanished. Their new album Midtsommer under the moniker Keimzeit Akustik Quintett features two French lingo cover versions, Trenet’s La Mer and Pink Martini’s 1997 million seller Sympatique – though on PM’s album the credits go to band members China Forbes and Thomas Lauderdale, the lyrics were drawn from Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Hôtel , already [...]
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Experimental neo-folk guitarist Ben Chasny, better known by the stage moniker Six Organs of Admittance, is playing tonight at Johnny Brenda's. Chasny, who is also part of Comets on Fire and Rangda, dropped Ascent in August, which has been received as being an especially psychedelic and heavily gnostic release. The 21+ show tonight starts at ... Continue reading
As November rains its way into December, the Bay Area does its part in the War on Christmas with the onset of our annual secular holiday concert season. Relive that scene in My So-Called Life where Rayanne went flyering drunk in the school parking lot when Toad the Wet Sprocket play not one but two [...]
For your Sunday: ► Dance party at the Hollywood Bowl, with Hot Chip , Passion Pit and Omar Souleyman . That's Passion Pit's video for "Talk a Walk," above. ► A night of larger-than-life R&B at Gibson Amphitheatre, where Mary J. Blige co-headlines with D’Angelo , on his first tour in a decade. ► It's the eclectic orchestrations of Pink Martini at the Greek Theatre. ► Punk stalwarts the Ataris , who have their sixth full-length en route early next year, headline the [...]
Foi hoje apresentado o cartaz da primeira edição do Cascais Music Festival, cartaz este que está recheado de grandes nomes. Cascais é um dos destinos turísticos mais apreciados por portugueses e estrangeiros, que podem desfrutar de um clima ameno, excelentes praias e paisagens de cortar a respiração, combinados com uma oferta hoteleira e gastronómica bem variada. Para completar, este ano vai contar também com um evento cultural que irá animar o Verão, o Cascais Music Festival. Com uma programação variada, que inclui artistas nacionais e internacionais, o Cascais Music Festival contará com 10 espectáculos [...]
You may not know this about me, but beneath this tuff exterior lies a sappy, mushy interior. Ah yes, I am a secret romantic. I hide it well, I try to anyway. Nothing makes me swoon more than a chanteuse/chanson bluurbling about whatever it is they are singing about (sadly I don't speak French -- Quelle tragédie!) It goes without saying that I loved the movie "Midnight in Paris" & "Amelie." Mon Dieu, I am a cliche. Here French songs that I am particularly enjoying right now: Pink Martini -- Je N'est Veux pas [...]
IODAcast 103: Sean Hayes, Pink Martini, Justin Robinson & the Mary Annettes and more. Polica "Dark Star" (mp3) from "Give You The Ghost" (Totally Gross National Product / Polica) Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This Album Justin Robinson & [...]
What with all of the bits of nasty weather, work deadlines, etc ... a person can get just plain frazzled. So what's needed on the drive to work is some romantic and swanky musings. Pink Martini definitely fits the bill. The suave Oregon-based collective bravely mixes together influences from many, many genres to produce something completely unique. I can't even [...]
Pink Martini brings their "little orchestra" to Disney Hall for two New Year's Concerts and brought down the house.
Pink Martini performed "Santa Baby" on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Watch it below: Social Bookmarking
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Pink Martini The 12-member Portland, Ore., orchestra is performing holiday tune "Santa Baby" with China Forbes. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): T-Pain Rerun from December 6. Rapper T-Pain supported new album Revolver with a [...]
It's very easy to get lost in the concert scene with a want to see the greatest technological innovation in stage design or the wildest antics ever displayed by an up-and-coming act - so much so that the music, quite sadly, sometimes gets lost in the struggle. Venues are built with impressive sound systems that [...]
Dakin's taking the week off from recommending shows. He's busy shopping for just the right turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner, I guess. Personally, I recommend getting a bottle of Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau to bring wherever you do end up going for Thanksgiving. It's the ultimate Thanksgiving wine. But enough booze talk. Let's go see [...]
Pink Martini teamed up with legendary Japanese singer Saori Yuki to explore significant songs recorded in 1969, the same year she made her own debut...
Date City Venue Tickets November 4 Medford, OR The Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater Buy Tickets November 5 Arcata, CA Van Duzer Theatre Buy Tickets November 8 Chico, CA Laxon Auditorium Buy Tickets November 9 San Luis Obispo, CA Christopher Cohan Center Buy Tickets November 10 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theater Buy Tickets November 12 San [...]
Mac Miller at The FADER Fort at SXSW (03/17/11) Photo : D. Caplan Aug 16 2011 A Night To Fight MS Featuring The Everymen, Ben Franklin and Sp. Guests Mercury Lounge New York, NY 08:15 PM Buy Tickets Amex [...]
I’ll be honest in saying that, even though I’ve lived in Portland for quite a few years, I don’t know Pink Martini as well as I should. Despite that, I still hold quite a bit of respect for the worldwide and commercial success they’ve had as an orchestra that plays a little bit of everything. Their music has appeared in international hit movies and television shows, and three of their albums have gone gold in Canada, Greece, France and Turkey – respectable for a band of any genre. Is this music appropriate for a [...]
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