Photos by: Charlie Homo It's been a long seven weeks for Port O'Brien . They've been on tour all over the country, had their van broken into, and had some equipment stolen. Well, they are finally back in town and you could tell how glad they are to be home. " Golden Gram " LeBron got up first and gave us a tasty treat as the crowd began filling the venue. As is the case with most early crowds, people seemed a bit more preoccupied [...]
One of the great bands that I discovered this year is Port O'Brien . I absolutely love their album "Threadbare". Port O'Brien is alvast één van de ontdekkingen van dit jaar. Op hun album Threadbare brengen ze melodieuze nummers met een folk-inslag en met een hoog indie-gehalte. Vrijwel elk nummer op het album is goed tot zeer goed. In sommige nummers hoor je echo's van invloeden. Zo schemert in Tree bones het gitaarriedeltje door [...]
. . . Port O'Brien , Geographer , Grand Lake . . . All this makes for a ridiculous amount of local talent within just one day's time. Let us count the ways: 1) TONIGHT, Thursday, November 5th: Tempo No Tempo , Man/Miracle , Maus Haus at the Rickshaw Stop . 8:00 p.m., $10. 2) TONIGHT, Thursday, November 5th: Grand Lake , the Happy Hollows [...]
[Let's see now, which direction is Universal City? ...] Silversun Pickups have been piling on the miles since they released their sophomore album "Swoon" — the L.A. quartet has played 33 shows since the middle of September. They're back on their home turf for today's inaugural LA 101 event at the Gibson Amphitheatre, headlining a main-stage lineup that includes Dengue Fever (7 p.m.), Matt & Kim (7:45) and the Dandy Warhols (8:40). And there's fine matinee entertainment on the KROQ-FM locals [...]
They chose tunes by: Bon Iver Lily Allen Animal Collective Departme Built To Spill Stream the full playback here. Threadbare is out now. MP3: Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good
Photography by Karin Well, if there is one thing that my little head cold, the chilly weather, and all the colourful leaves now wet and laying on the ground in my yard tells me... it's that 1) you CAN'T "beat" a cold with extra quantities of wine, coffee, and cycling and 2) Fall is in full force. I love Fall, it's unpredictable weather and all. Yeah, I may complain that it's too cold too early, but that's only because I wasn't ready to put on winter gear yet when riding my bike! But deep [...]
Port O'Brien - "My Will Is Good" Port O'Brien cap off their North American touring with three Northern California dates this weekend, a victory lap of sorts to celebrate the group's great new album Threadbare . Did you download our New, Improved, LIVE session with the band? Port O'Brien - "Oslo Campfire" (New, Improved, LIVE session) Thursday, they'll be at Bottom of the Hill (9pm, $12), with Geographer and [...]
Given the volume of music available for consideration on One Track Mind, we invariably have to pass on a lot of tasty morsels. In a desire to share even more great, free music with you, the Sunday Sampler will offer a handful of tracks without the usual critical and biographical write-up. Less talk, more tunes: Little Girls "Growing" from Concepts (released on 10/13) [ download ] Field [...]
Het is hard gegaan met Port O'Brien . Ik zag de band voor het eerst in maart 2008 in Austin, Texas. Het debuut The Wind and the Swell was toen alweer een tijdje uit en All We Could Do Was Sing zou iets later dat jaar uitkomen. Inmiddels heeft de band ook al in ons land met succes opgetreden. Nu is het tijd voor het derde album, Threadbare. Threadbare is niet zo uitbundig als de vorige twee albums van de band. Je zoekt hier tevergeefs naar de uitbundigheid van een song als All We Could Do Was Sing. Het [...]
Check out Port O'Brien jamming out a stripped down unreleased song titled "Robin's Blue" for Shoot The Player outside of Sydney University. Port O'Brien: Robin's Blue from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo . Last month I posted a remix by Bodega Girls of Port O'Brien's "My Will Is Good". Not only did they take the song to a whole-nother-level, they made the video interesting yet nausea inducing - in a good way My Will Is Good (Bodega Girls [...]
Threadbare , the second studio effort of California's Port O'Brien, picks up right where 2007's All We Could Do Was Sing left off: hardworking fishermen, bakers and cannery workers getting their collective rocks off courtesy of singers Cambria Goodwin and Van Pierszalowski's skillful narratives that sit back and reflect as often as they boil and spill over with fistfuls of freshly sharpened words. Port O'Brien - "Oslo Campfire" (from Threadbare )
port o brien - my will is good [from wiki: 'Port O'Brien' are an American musical group combining elements of acoustic, folk and indie rock. They are named after a bay featuring a now-abandoned cannery on Kodiak Island where founder member Van Pierszalowski's parents met. They started out as a folk music duo of Cambria Goodwin and Van Pierszalowski while Cambria was living in Cambria, California and Van was living in Oakland. After Cambria moved closer to Oakland they added a rhythm section composed of Caleb Nichols and Joshua Barnhart. The band has [...]
Read today's article expressing love for 'Sour Milk/Salt Water' here. Earlier this week, they chatted with Billboard. Threadbare is out now. MP3: Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good
An e-mail from the folks at Baeblemusic (great name, by the way (sincerely)) just slipped into our inbox a few minutes ago with some great video footage of two Tripwire favorites Wavves and Port O'Brien doing business. While we're not calling Mr. Nathan Williams a Kurt Cobain by any means, we've said earlier that the transition his Wavves project is making from drummer to Zach Hill is a lot like the difference one could hear in Nirvana's recordings back when they subbed in Dave Grohl for Chad Channing. Below is some video of Hill and Williams plowing through "So Bored." [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) As the decade begins to wrap itself up, today's Diversions catches up with Port O'Brien's Van Pierszalowski as he runs down some of his favorite albums of the past ten years. The bay-area [...]
Not only is it a great cause to contribute to, but the lineup is friggin sweeet! Port O' Brien was a welcomed discovery this past year @ SXSW 2009, as the live show was a huge exclamation point to the music. On the inside stage @ Emo's Sea Wolf - 11:30 Ben Kweller - 10:30 Port O' Brien - 9:30 Sara Luv - 8:45 Tickets Read more about the Pablove Foundation and the [...]
Sara Lov photo by Helena P. (The Earl) New writer and local artist Sara Wood writes, "This was our first trip to The North Star Bar.....As soon as we arrived (about an hour and a half after doors) we kitted ourselves out with some Woodchuck cider , and heard just a little bit of the first opener of the night, Sara Lov . Sara had a sweet, and very juvenile voice, but I have to be honest: I was more attracted to her pretty t-shirt designs over on the merch table. As [...]
Perhaps not ghosts, more inferior Microsoft services. I abhorred their enforced service updates beforehand, but now the installations appear to have crippled my main laptop with no clever suggestions as to how to solve the shite they've engineered. And this relates to this beeeeecccaaause....? I had intended to post day 3 of CMJ and keep the roll going, but all the pictorial/audio content is on that machine. Balls. Luckily, I have the good folks at Insound [...]
Enjoy the brand new Q&A here. Earlier this month, Port O'Brien dropped by KEXP. Threadbare is out now. MP3: Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good
This past sunday i headed down to The Talking Head to check out Sea Wolf and was surprised with a couple solid opening sets by Port O'Brien and Sara Lov . The night started out a bit delayed as the sound check was still going on well after doors were supposed to be opened, so the crowd just hung out in the lovely talking head alley in hopes of staying out of the way of whatever death metal fest was going on next door at sonar. [...]
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