Blog: End Hits

Pleased to Meet You, Episode 7: IBQT

May 23, 6:57pm End Hits
Pleased to Meet You: IBQT
It's a cuddly new episode of Pleased to Meet You , in which our host Nilina Mason-Campbell interviews emerging Portland musicians in unconventional ways. This week Nilina has a slumber party with Gumar and Cole Baby from boy band IBQT , and there are enough oversized Ts, teen-mag quizzes to go around—even a pillow fight! Watch and learn below. You can also check out IBQT at Mississippi Studios next week, on Wednesday, May 29, with Minden and Sista Fist. For past episodes [...]
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Bob Dylan Cover Songs and a Jeff Buckley Movie

May 23, 6:14pm End Hits
At Mississippi Studios tonight, a veritable armada of Portland folk and country types pay tribute to Bob Dylan , who turns 72 years old tomorrow. To do this, they are doing something unheard of: covering Bob Dylan songs . This obscure Minnesota-born songwriter has probably never been covered before, so tonight should be really something. I kid, I kid. Yes, the history of music is lousy with Bob Dylan covers, but this gang knows what it's doing. Take a look at the lineup: Portland Country Underground, Kory Quinn, Little Sue, Marisa Anderson, Lewi Longmire, Jim Brunberg, [...]
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The Best of Sasquatch's Music Posters

May 23, 4:04pm End Hits
Ned and I can't quite figure out why Sasquatch bothers to make such an awesome and thorough gallery of music posters for their fest lineup every year. Who brings money to buy music posters at the Gorge? Who lugs those posters around from stage to stage, hoping to hell and back that their signed prints don't get mangled by a drunken girl in a romper? Last time I was at Sasquatch they didn't allow re-entry, so you'd be stuck carting that cardboard tube around until you could get it back to your rain-soaked tent. BUT ANYWAY... who cares why [...]
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Fabolous and Pusha T at Roseland, Monday May 20

May 23, 3:14pm End Hits
All photos by Minh Tran. This is a tale of two rappers, one clever and suave, the other punishing and incendiary, sharing the stage at the Roseland for the Portland stop of their "Life Is So Exciting" tour. As an aging hiphop fan attending an all-ages show featuring two aging rappers, I struggle to muster much of my own excitement as Pusha T's DJ begins warming up the crowd with time-proven exclamatory verbalizations accompanied by an array of bomb and siren sounds. I find myself wondering where either Pusha T [...]
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Peter Gabriel - "And Through the Wire"

May 23, 1:35pm End Hits
Peter Gabriel - And Through the Wire demo
I'm posting this for no other reason than that Peter Gabriel 's third album was released on this very day in 1980. Here is a "demo" version of "And Through the Wire," perhaps the least known song on that record and probably my favorite as well. I don't think this is a "demo" at all, but rather an alternate mix from the master take. That's Paul Weller of the Jam playing the snarling guitar riff, and Gabriel sings some different lyrics in this version. Peter Gabriel [1980] (sometimes [...]
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Tonight in Music: Vampire Weekend, Devendra Banhart, Ariel Pink & More

May 23, 12:13pm End Hits
Devendra Banhart - Mi Negrita
VAMPIRE WEEKEND, HIGH HIGHS ( Keller Auditorium , 222 SW Clay) Nobody expected Vampire Weekend's third album to be this good, especially with the title Modern Vampires of the City . Yet the New York boat-shoe prep-poppers—who even recorded part of the new album on blue-blood resort isle Martha's Vineyard—have delivered their best work yet, a mature, nuanced, and of course, catchy work that makes good on all their early promise. NED LANNAMANN DEVENDRA BANHART, RODRIGO AMARANTE [...]
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This Week's Mercury Music Section

May 22, 6:04pm End Hits
Another week, another jam-packed Mercury music section that will outright ruin your teeth. No vote required. Portland's Blue Cranes (pictured above) is more than a post-jazz ensemble. It's a collection of songwriters. It's an assemblage of like-minded improvisers. It's an outfit that embraces more styles and genres that perhaps any other band in town. And it's also a support group. (P.S. Hey, we're giving away a pair of tickets to see them Friday at Mississippi Studios— right here !) LISTEN : Blue Cranes - "Everything Is Going to [...]
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Tonight in Music: Youth Lagoon, Gaytheist, Akron/Family

May 22, 3:42pm End Hits
Akron/Family - "Until the Morning" (Official Video)
YOUTH LAGOON, SWAHILI ( Wonder Ballroom , 128 NE Russell) Read our article on Youth Lagoon . Hold Me...But Not So Tight by Gaytheist RED FANG, GAYTHEIST ( White Owl Social Club , 1305 SE 8th) The metal-tinged power rock of Gaytheist is one of those purely pleasurable things in life—like ice cream, or Lee Van Cleef. The Portland trio's latest album Hold Me... But Not So Tight was just released on Seattle-based [...]
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Foals Ticket Giveaway Coming Soon!

May 21, 6:05pm End Hits
Foals - Inhaler
Oxford's Foals return to Portland on Wednesday, May 29, bringing their sweaty, brilliant live show to the Crystal Ballroom. On their exhaustive jaunt around the US they've been striking their best Willy Wonka-meets-indie rock pose, hiding a pair of tickets and a CD of their brilliant album Holy Fire in every city for fans to track down on the day of the show. We at End Hits have our very own ticket/CD package to give away like sweet, sweet musical candy. Check back here next Wednesday (the day of the show) and [...]
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Wild Ones' Debut Album Due on Party Damage Records; Hear the Single

May 21, 2:41pm End Hits
Wild Ones have announced the details of their long-awaited debut album, Keep It Safe , which will come out on July 9 on Party Damage Records . It's the inaugural release for Party Damage, the new local label started by Casey Jarman and Ben Hubbird of the Morals (Jarman is also former music editor of the Willamette Week .) And it's a great record to start on. That's the album cover up there, and here's the album's first single, "Curse Over Me," a bouncing, midtempo dazzler that meshes the band's many elements: synth-laden electro-pop, [...]
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Win Tickets to Blue Cranes!

May 21, 1:21pm End Hits
Portland post-jazz ensemble Blue Cranes have a fine new album titled Swim due out on June 4, and they're playing a record release show this Friday, May 24, at Mississippi Studios . Kick off your Memorial Day weekend with their songs and improvisations, some of which could be called jazz, and some of which could not. Who cares? Throw your music-genre-labeling compulsions to the wind and enjoy their passionate, adventurous, instrumental music, safe in the knowledge that music writers like me will never be able to adequately define it. (For more on this, check this [...]
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Tonight in Music: Black Moth Super Rainbow, Shout Out Louds, And And And & More

May 21, 12:33pm End Hits
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Hairspray Heart (Official Video)
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW, THE HOOD INTERNET, OSCILLATOR BUG ( Hawthorne Theatre , 1507 SE César E. Chávez) Enigmatic Pittsburgh oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow's hushed, synth-led experiments with psychedelic electro-pop are engrossing, sinister, and strangely accessible on their most recent effort Cobra Juicy . If you can fight your way through their die-hard fans to see them at the Hawthorne, there's every chance you'll get an unsettling yet blissful contact high. ALEX ROSS SHOUT OUT LOUDS, HAERTS [...]
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Artist:Caspar Sonnet
Title:Canticle VI (Woe is me..)
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Avant-Country

Music Monday! Drunk Dad, Mirage, Eidolons & More

May 20, 7:22pm End Hits
It's a manic Music Monday! LISTEN : Drunk Dad - "Scum Fee" Portland sludge-math-noise-metal-??? band Drunk Dad have a 12-inch on the way, and the violent closing track "Scum Fee" premiered on Pitchfork today. Listen to it for yourself, and get tied up in knots by the savage riffing, the drums that sound like bunch of heavy items being dropped down the stairs, the roaring vocals that hurt just to listen to. Good times for the whole family! The Morbid Reality 12-inch [...]
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Artist:Adam Brock
Title:Zombies (Radiation City)
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Cover
Artist:Bear&Moose
Title:Go Away
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Rock
Artist:Eidolons
Title:Gordy
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Indie Rock
Artist:JOHNNY JEWEL
Title:MIRAGE / LET'S KISS
File Name:SoundCloud
Artist:Perhapst (PR)
Title:Ramble Scramble
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Pop-Rock
Artist:QuietLifeBand
Title:Record Time
File Name:SoundCloud
Year:2013
Artist:Tender Loving Empire
Title:Radiation City x G_Force f. TxE - "Zombies" Remix
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Hiphop

Ray Manzarek, 1939-2013

May 20, 5:34pm End Hits
The Doors - Break On Through HQ (1967)
Ray Manzarek , keyboardist for the Doors, has died. He was 74. Manzarek passed away in Germany this morning; he had been fighting bile duct cancer. Along with his work with the Doors, Manzarek produced X's classic Los Angeles album from 1980. Here are the two best songs he did with the Doors: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Kanye West Has a Few Things on His Mind, Still Thinks He's Jesus

May 20, 2:44pm End Hits
I know the Stefon clip was the thing on SNL everybody wouldn't shut up about over the weekend, but, ah... you guys noticed Kanye West kind of killed it, right? West performed two new tracks, both of which are generally and accurately being described as "intense" (here's the other one, " New Slaves "); they're presumably from his upcoming album, Yeezus (subtle, Kanye), which'll be out June 18 . Considering West's last solo album, 2010's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , was his best [...]
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Pure Bathing Culture's First Album Is on the Way

May 20, 1:45pm End Hits
The week kicks off excitingly with news about Pure Bathing Culture 's forthcoming album, Moon Tides . It's their first full-length, following up their splendid 2012 self-titled EP, and it's due on August 20 on Partisan Records (in the UK, August 19 on Memphis Industries). There's also a new track to listen to—"Pendulum" just premiered this morning on Gorilla vs. Bear , but you can listen to it here. The track graced many of PBC's hometown live shows last year, so it should sound pretty familiar. With Dan Hindman's immaculately clean electric guitar and Sarah [...]
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Artist:Pure Bathing Culture
Title:Pendulum
File Name:SoundCloud
Year:2013

Tonight in Music: Fabolous & Pusha T, Week of Wonders, Brahms' First

May 20, 12:28pm End Hits
Wishes - Week of Wonders (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
FABOLOUS, PUSHA T, PORTLAND EXPRESS, SUPANOVA, MR. C, CASPA ( Roseland , 8 NW 6th) Two nice men named "Fabulous" and "Pusher Tee" [ He means Fabolous and Pusha T . Sigh.—Eds. ] will perform an uplifting array of danceable tunes. They also are good at wordplay. AKA "rap," like what you do when you go to your friend's apartment and the door is locked and you hope they didn't fall in the bathtub and die. I'm old! DENIS C. THERIAULT [...]
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Tonight in Music: Witchburn, Alela Diane, Speck Mountain & More

May 19, 12:20pm End Hits
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker
HURT, WITCHBURN, CELLAR DOOR, ELEMENT 57, MOHAWK YARD ( Hawthorne Theatre , 1507 SE César E. Chávez) Read our article on Witchburn . ALELA DIANE, VIKESH KAPOOR, BARNA HOWARD ( Portland Playhouse , 602 NE Prescott) Churches are an entirely appropriate place to experience the tears-inducing loveliness of Alela Diane's ever-so-slightly-trance folk, replete with poignant lyrics about family, nature, and lovers. It's the latter that's the focus of the forthcoming About Farewell , due [...]
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Tonight in Music: I Can Lick Any SOB, Mic Crenshaw, Fruit of the Legion of Loom & More

May 18, 12:05pm End Hits
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House - Mayberry - Live Acoustic for Couch By Couchwest
I CAN LICK ANY SONOFABITCH IN THE HOUSE, SEPARATION OF SANITY, JACKRABBIT, MATT WOODS ( Dante's , 350 W Burnside) "They don't make men like Andy Griffith anymore," sings I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House's grizzled frontman Mike Damron on his band's new LP, Mayberry . It could be argued that they don't make guys like Damron anymore either. The band's long been a staple of the Northwest's Southern-fried punk underground, sharing stages with such touring acts as Drag the River, Two Cow Garage, and more. On their new album, ICLASOBITH treads familiar territory: [...]
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Artist:macmediapromo
Title:Mic Crenshaw f/ Dead Prez- 'Superheroes' (Produced by Maestro of D-12)
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Hip-Hop
Artist:Painted Palms
Title:Click
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Pop
Year:2013

Friday Cheer with Janelle Monáe

May 17, 7:44pm End Hits
Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video]
Sigh. Everyone went to see Star Trek into Darkness and I'm stuck Googling the correct spellings of various dried Italian meats. I'm going to watch my own futuristic space opera with Janelle Monáe's new song "Q.U.E.E.N." from her upcoming album Electric Lady . That'll cheer me up. It'll work for you too, I bet. She has that effect. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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