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Musicfest NW Diaries: Friday (Videos! Photos! Twitterings!)


[September 6th 6:04pm] Day Three! We're Dying! In a good way! Today's contributors include (in no particular order) Kelly Clarke, Robert Ham, Nilina Mason-Campbell, Casey Jarman, Brandon Seifert, Byron Beck, Mark Stock, Whitney Hawke, Jason Quigley, Inger Katz, Arian Stevens, Heather Zinger, Jordan Strong (he took the one...

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The Musicfest Diaries: Thursday


[September 5th 8:28pm] Who needs an intro. Our whole flock of freelancers were out last night, and they've got all sorts of stories to share with you. Contributors are: Michael Mannheimer,...

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Bladen County Update: MFNW Showcase and Other News


[September 5th 4:01pm] Local buzz-label Bladen County Records holds its MFNW showcase tonight at RonToms, featuring 12 of the label’s bands and spanning three separate stages. Kicking...

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Music Video: Southern Belle's "Sunnyside" with Director Interview


[September 5th 12:37pm] It has arrived! While LocalCut bloggers and many of Portland's fine musicians were belting their hearts out at the Towne Lounge last Sunday night for the most recent...

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Rock Solid: The Shaky Hands want you to reconsider “rock.”


[September 3rd 6:05am] Mayhaw Hoons is upset. It’s almost hard to tell, as his eyes are hidden behind sunglasses and curly, long red locks. But as we sit discussing the music world’s...

MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 0 COMMENTS

Also this week...
- 9/3 Horse Feathers. House With No ...
- 9/3 Parenthetical Girls. Entanglem...


The Return of These Are the Days with Arya Imig: MusicFest NW Preview


[September 2nd 1:42pm] Hi. How are you? It's been awhile. I know you've been thinking of me, and I've been meaning to write. I've thought a lot about you too, and I've thought an awful...

ARYA IMIG | 2 COMMENTS

Recently in LC Radio...
- 7/1 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S...
- 5/30 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S...
- 5/6 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S...



DIRTY MITTENS, Pinky Swear (self-released)


[July 16th 6:00am] [MOTOWN-TINGED INDIE-POP] It takes a few minutes into “The Small Things,” the first song on cute-pop band Dirty Mittens’ new five-song EP, Pinky...

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Recently in Album Reviews...
- 7/9 THE OLD BELIEVERS, Eight Golde...
- 6/25 TEA FOR JULIE, The Sense In Ty...
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The Old Believers, "The Blizzard" (Eskimo and Sons cover, unreleased)


[September 5th 12:57pm] Walking down to where the mounted police keep their horses the other day, we had to wait for a train to pass. As it did, we waved out to the train engineer. I'm...

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Musicfest NW Diaries: Friday (Videos! Photos! Twitterings!)


[September 6th 6:04pm] Day Three! We're Dying! In a good way! Today's contributors include (in no particular order) Kelly Clarke, Robert Ham, Nilina Mason-Campbell, Casey Jarman, Brandon...

LOCAL CUT | 2 COMMENTS


Dirt Jake Replicas: Zombie, Zombie (Norwich)


[August 10th 9:24pm] June 28th Zombie. Zombie. (Day 12) Why do people love cover bands? I can’t think of even one person I know that has ever said to me that they love a cover band...

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Josh Martinez: "Hey Shneef-Meister, Stop Yelling and Put Some Pants On Those Speedo Balls" (Reykjavik, Iceland and Paris, France)


[August 11th 9:00am] PART FOUR Reykjavik, Iceland This is the gold medal of this tour, the payoff at the end of 6 days of shows in a row, extensive travel involved in each and every...

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Floater: "Gentlemen! To Evil!" (Seattle)


[August 4th 6:57pm] 07-19-2008 I wake up to the sound of my damned cell phone's saccharine "wake up" alarm. The dream was sooooo nice and the alarm tone, which I think is supposed...

FLOATER | 25 COMMENTS


Jared Mees and The Grown Children: This Is How We Do It In Fresno (Merced, CA)


[July 31st 11:26am] "This Is How We Do It In Fresno" - BKF Jordan Dykstra reports: We played in Merced, CA at the venue called The Partisan. The vibe was wooden on the outside and...

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Wet Confetti: Let's All Go to the Exploratorium! (S.F. to Sacramento, CA)


[February 9th 5:21pm] [EDITOR'S NOTE: This post was written by Mike] This morning started off with really amazing ham and cheese croissants from a bakery that our friend Nicole works...

WET CONFETTI | 1 COMMENT

 

 

 

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Hanson, Everybody Else
[ADULT BOP] It's hard to believe it's been over a decade since "MMMBop," but the present maturity of Hanson assures it has. Since the group's major-label debut, Middle of Nowhere, put it in the middle of fan-girl mania in ’97, the Tulsa brother trio has maintained steady output even as interest has...receded. Easily confused for teen girls in their heyday, the brothers are all now dads (looking the part, too) and the group's sound has shifted much the same. Centered more on pianos than bouncy keyboards, and complemented by somewhat deeper crooning, Hanson's music exudes adult Top 40 and VH1. They've done gone and grown up! NILINA MASON CAMPBELL. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 233-1994.
WW PickBrian Wilson
[BEACH MAN] Well, Smile it ain't—but it has at least one song worthy of Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson's new album, That Lucky Old Sun, is his first album-length conceptual work since he began Smile in 1966, never mind since finally completing that legendary opus in 2005. And despite a hand from Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks, whose prose poems link this suite's songs, one couldn't expect Sun to touch Smile's acid-dappled majesty. But "Midnight's Another Day" is exactly the song you'd hope the creator of Pet Sounds could produce today—except for its confirmation of Wilson's ongoing psychiatric struggle. Fortunately, he still conjures joy, too, as on the nostalgic "Forever My Surfer Girl." And his brilliant young band—including keyboardist Scott Bennett, who co-wrote most of the new album—ensures that Wilson's complex emotional palette is delivered in full, along with sublime versions of Beach Boys songs both famous and obscure. JEFF ROSENBERG. Roseland, 8 NW 6th Ave., 219-9929 (Grill), 224-2038 (Theater).
Parenthetical Girls
See profile, coming soon The Works at Leftbank, 240 N Broadway., .