Today, Pickathon announced their initial lineup, including headliner Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The Oregon-based ‘indie roots’ festival–held at Pendarvis Farm just outside Portland–features six stages, with various artists playing multiple times over the course of the three-day event. This is the first I’ve heard of this festival. I’m surprised by how sorely underpublished Pickathon is in [...]
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy to headline Pickathon 2010
Posted in News, Portland, tagged Billy Joe Shaver, Black Lillies, Black Prairie, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang, Breathe Owl Breathe, Captain Bogg & Salty, Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio, Chatham County Line, Cotton Jones, Elliott Brood, Foghorn Stringband, Frank Fairfield, Frazey Ford, Heartless Bastards, Jill Andrews, Langhorne Slim, Martha Scanlan, Megafaun, Michael Hurley, Pickathon, Pickathon 2010, Red Stick Ramblers, Richmond Fontaine, Roadside Graves, Sallie Ford, Seth Bernard and May Erlewine, Stone River Boys, T-Model Ford, The Cave Singers, The Deep Dark Woods, These United States, Town Mountain, Water Tower Bucket Boys, Weinland, Woody Pines on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Video: Broken Bells-”The High Road”
Posted in Portland, Uncategorized, Video, tagged Broken Bells, Danger Mouse, James Mercer, The High Road, The Shins, Video on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Broken Bells is a new project from Shins frontman James Mercer and producer Danger Mouse. The duo’s first video is for “The High Road”. The song highlights Mercer’s distinctive swooping vocals while contrasting them beautifully with some very un-Shins-like instrumentals. The sound is a little more electronic, with heavier drum breaks and whimsical synths. The [...]
Thermals plan Record Store Day release with The Cribs
Posted in News, Portland, Releases, tagged Past Lives, Record Store Day, Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, The Cribs, The Thermals on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
April 17th is Record Store Day, a day that brings great in-store performances and special releases to record stores across the nation. This year, Record Store Day means a special release from Portland punk rockers The Thermals, who are dropping a split 7″ single with former tourmates The Cribs. The single will feature a new [...]
Video: Laura Veirs-”July Flame”
Posted in Portland, Video, tagged Laura Veirs, Video on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Stereogum premiered the video for the title track of Laura Veirs‘ stellar new album “July Flame”. The video is an adorable stop-motion piece by animator Doug Savage, who also made Veirs’ “Phantom Mountain” video in 2007. Savage provided Stereogum with a little trivia about the new video: The video has 1,804 individual images [...]
Podcast: Philip Kobernik
Posted in Podcast, Portland, Seattle, tagged Big Spider's Back, Champagne Champagne, Drew Grow And The Pastors' Wives, Hazelwood Motel, Hey Marseilles, J Tillman, Laura Veirs, Loch Lomond, Podcast, Portland, Sallie Ford, Seattle, Tea Cozies, The Builders And The Butchers, Yuni In Taxco on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is my first in a series of podcasts involving Northwest musicians talking about Northwest music that they dig. The podcast features my pal Philip, accordion player for Seattle folkestra Hey Marseilles. He was kind enough to spend a couple hours recording his thoughts about the eleven songs he gave me—unfortunately, most of that time [...]
PYRAMIDDD drop first UK single
Posted in Portland, Releases, tagged PYRAMIDDD, Releases, Singles, Starfucker on November 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Portland band PYRAMIDDD has had a fantastic year. They took some big tours, wrote some amazing music, had this song featured in a Target commercial, survived a name change (they were once called Starfucker, y’know), and are now taking things to an international level. On Nov. 16th, PYRAMIDD dropped their first UK single, “Medicine”, a [...]
