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Lauren of Ume
This is the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I decided to settle on a theme for this one – female musicians – which is not as facile as it sounds. Just recently I’ve been thrilled to hear a new breed of female musicians bringing the alt-rock and fronting [...]

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Finally a Yeasayer song that captures just how danceable the Brooklyn based band is when in the live arena! Leave it to fellow Brooklyn dweller and remix extraordinaire Pocketknife to make the leap. Propping up “Sunrise” with additional percussion while leaving the vocals and original flow of the song intact, he’s succeeded in [...]

Menomena Pic by Sarah Cass.
In the midst of recording a dozen or so songs for a full length disc next year, Portland’s most talented trio since Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter and Jerome Kersey made time to play a local benefit at Doug Fir Lounge on Sunday night. Along with several songs from Friend and Foe [...]

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Sometimes the only words are those to say that there simply are none.  Still, I’ll try to give a basic overview of last night’s Of Montreal show at the Roseland. I’d gotten a glimpse of what might be in store by way of photo heavy reviews, but nothing could’ve prepared me for [...]

Tricky – Knowle West Boy
This is the second episode of the week of the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Thursday November 20th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune [...]

How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of a singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn’t hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. They have [...]

Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein announced on her NPR Monitor Mix blog that she is streaming four songs and offering up two MP3 downloads that are the results of an 8 year old recording session she and Mary Timony [who was a member of Helium, one of my favorite bands] had in Olympia in 2000. [...]