The Carousel Festival is Seattle's DIY house-scene annual extravaganza, and it begins today at 3pm. The Green House (run by the affable Natron) and the Healthy Times Fun Club -two of the most prominent house venues in town-will be hosting the event, along with Dancylvania, Gallery 1412, Black Lodge, and Cairo Gallery. Go here for comprehensive location info. . Not only is the effort for a good cause- Urban Rest [...]
Whoa! My longest non-posting period. Hmmm... So Graffiti Island are coming to Portland for two dates in three days next week. I'll be reveling it up on both occasions. I'm presently writing a listing on the trio for Willamette Week. Did a quick google search to reacquaint myself with the group and lo-and-behold the third result was the review I wrote after seeing them at a warehouse party in East London a year and a half ago . I clicked and found my way back to this here blog. A blog that seems like forever ago [...]
Simple and true words: No one can keep up with Breakfast Mountain . They are the DMT released in your brain every night leaving you to trip balls in the dream realm, they are the pinched lime that makes you gasp while stinging your open sore and they are the unholiest of erections that every dude wakes up with in the morning. If you've ever had sex, then you've already heard Breakfast Mountain . Formed in 1999 to prevent Y2K, BM has been making love to ears for a decade. Like meat-lovers pizza, Breakfast [...]
PDX Pop Now! Festival is a nice, free weekend thing that's beginning to shape up as a showcase for the best Portland has to offer, music-wise. Is it too early to call the festival a city insituition? Even if you wouldn't, it's definitely on the same level as the Willamette Week's NW MusicFest, given it's DIY 'tude, the limitations of only having local bands and keeping the cost free. Over a stretch from July 24 - 26, beginning Friday afternoon and ending early Monday morning, nearly 50 local bands will decend on Rotture for what looks like a rowdy [...]
This year's PDX Pop Now! schedule has been announced. PDX Pop Now! is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and enhancing Portland's vital and diverse music community. This year, PDX Pop Now! will again be held at Rotture (formerly Loveland) on 315 SE 3rd Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Check out the schedule here: Friday, July 24 INSIDE 6:00-6:30 Dirty Mittens 6:40-7:10 [...]
The good folks behind PDX Pop Now! have slowly been leaking information on the 2009 festival all spring, and now we have the final piece of the pie: the complete lineup with set times for the fest. And dang, it sure looks impressive laid out. The finale on Sunday night might be the biggest set of heavy hitters (Menomena! The Shaky Hands! Au! Nurses!) since PPN started in 2004. I'm still trying to get out of a friends wedding on Sunday afternoon so I can attempt another marathon weekend of seeing every single band. See you in less than two [...]
PDX Pop Now! , a not-for-profit which advocates Portland's local music scene, has announced the line-up for its sixth annual festival (July 24 - 26 at Rotture, 320 SE 2nd Ave), which is free, all-ages and will feature sets from lots of local Portland bands, listed below. Another free and all-ages show is planned for July 16 on the steps of City Hall at 1221 SW 4th Avenue from 5:30 - 8:00, and Y La Bamba, Point Juncture WA and YACHT are booked to perform. Last on the PDX Pop Now! front is the release of their sixth compilation which [...]
Big day for festival announcements! I just got word from the folks at PDX Pop Now! about the full details on the 2009 festival—and I have to say, the lineup is really pretty great. Menomena! Nice Nice! The Mint Chicks! The three day, all-ages, free fest is set to take place on July 24-26 at Rotture, and as usual it's jam packed with the type of diverse, eclectic set of artists that very few cities can offer. And after taking a year off, the PPN is also sponsoring a City Hall show on Thursday, July 16 with [...]
The lineup for the sixth year of PDX Pop Now! has just been announced. This loving tribute to everything local, all-ages, and totally free, will take place on July 24-26th inside, and outside, Rotture. If that wasn't enough to make your day, the festival has also spilled the details on their annual Portland City Hall show (also free and all-ages). Enough with the typing, let's see the mighty list of bands: Ah Holly Fam'ly / Animal Farm / Au / Autistic Youth / Benoit Pioulard / Breakfast Mountain / Chamber of Commerce / [...]
I was privileged to have the opportunity to interview Ryan Bjornstad and Josh Hodges of Starfucker back in November, in the back room at the Vera Project prior to the Seattle show on their first ever nationwide tour. They had just swung through New York and CMJ and were about to hit the rest of the west coast after a week's break in Portland. Ultimately the interview proved to be the best that I've been involved with, revealing and in-depth, with both members being frank and honest about their previous band experiences, popularity and thoughts on [...]
Hello! Another Portland Social Scene is here. All via by Leigh Friedman, which keeps you updated on all the fun that Portland, OR has to offer. Again, I'll be doing the uncool thing and watching the free screening of Battlestar Galactica at the Baghdad . Maybe there won't be a line 'cause of the Watchmen opening. Fingers crossed. I'd like to recommend The Gaslamp Killer at The Crown Room. He's one of the resident DJ's at LA's Low End Theory which I mentioned earlier this week . [...]
Hello! Another Portland Social Scene is here. All via by Leigh Friedman, who keeps you updated on all the fun that Portland, OR has to offer. Again, I'll be doing the uncool thing and watching the free screening of Battlestar Galactica at the Baghdad . Maybe there won't be a line 'cause of the Watchmen opening. Fingers crossed. I'd like to recommend The Gaslamp Killer at The Crown Room. He's one of the resident DJ's at LA's Low End Theory which I mentioned earlier this week . [...]
Hello! Another Portland Social Scene is here. All via by Leigh Friedman, who keeps you updated on all the fun that Portland, OR has to offer. Again, I'll be doing the uncool thing and watching the free screening of Battlestar Galactica at the Baghdad . Maybe there won't be a line 'cause of the Watchmen opening. Fingers crossed. I'd like to recommend The Gaslamp Killer at The Crown Room. He's one of the resident DJ's at LA's Low End Theory which I mentioned earlier this week . [...]
/Cat Noise! We try to avoid covering house shows, but since we got approval for this one, let's ruin it for everyone tell everyone about it: The jittery 'lil Panther duo are performing tonight at 2849 NE Davis, alongside with Fist Fite and Captains Daughter . From Panther's JFK: "We will play some new shit from an EP that is coming out in March, only in Germany, and only on vinyl." Well good thing that isn't exclusive or anything.
This week Google released its 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist , a list summerizing the year's most popular searches. In the matter of "Top Sources for Political News," Fox ranked number one in searches this year. Scary! Let's move on to fluffier stuff: Twilight was the third fastest rising image search term of the year, no doubt fueled mostly by newly minted heartthrob Robert Pattinson [or those pesky Twilight moms -Ed.]. Disney queen Miley Cyrus came in next on the list. In the matter of most popular searches prefaced with "who is..." 20-year-old rap sensation [...]
Lickity's electro-party-punk was kind of an accident. No one's complaining. [JELL-O SHOT ROCK] Tom Potts likes to wrap electrical tape around his head onstage. Potts, who has gone by the stage name T$ (pronounced "T money") in various bands for about 30 years, sings through two mics, plays bass and several analog synths as frontman for Portland's Lickity. But he says the duo "didn't really plan to do this style of music." T$ initially tried out for another of Lickity drummer Spit Stix's projects, but apparently "didn't cut the mustard." Still, the two saw potential in [...]
When I caught Don Hellions this weekend at Dekum Manor, one particular song caught my ear. Just as Tom Cruise had Renee Zellweger at hello in Jerry Maguire , the trio had me at the song title "Unrequited Like." Lucky for listeners, this spazzy track of pop destruction (not unlike Fist Fite's energetic romps, but definitely less dark sounding) isn't a letdown from the heights of its loveless title. According to frontman Chris Hoganson, "Unrequited Like" was the first track in Don Hellions' catalog, written quickly by him by way of "playing five or six saxophone tracks [...]
[ Full disclosure: a handful of Nilina's photos appear in this issue, including E*Rock's contributor's portrait and the in the house show photo essay on page 40. ] Each year, XLR8R tackles a new city. They've previously been quite a bit more cosmopolitan and above the radar than this Rose City issue—with previous cities Berlin, New York and Paris (with a cover designed by the ubiquitous So Me) as obvious recipients of the full-issue treatment. Just so you understand: when we're talking themed issue, we're talking themed issue. This isn't simply a case of Portland related stories being [...]
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