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Dead Confederate. Pic by Squid
Dead Confederate released their debut LP – Wrecking Ball on September 16 via TAO Records. One of my new music discoveries at the Sasquatch Festival this year was these guys. I’m not a lover of the Rock Music these days as you know but Dead Confederate grabbed me and held on; [...]

My mind is blown a little bit. Lets take a moment to collect ourselves……Ready?
Rjdj is a new iphone app. Why is that special? It does something new….and by new I mean you have never experienced anything like this.
The short answer is that your thoughts get placed into a ambient landscape.
Lets step through this:
1. install rjdj [...]

Hardy of Dead Confederate
This episode of the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM is slightly shorter as we had special guests Dead Confederate in the studio to play an acoustic version of The Rat. After the show Squid and I saw them put on an amazing show at the Doug Fir. [...]

You Will Be Pwned by RemoteTreeChildren
My buddy John Askew, who plays alongside me in Faux Hoax with Menomena’s drummer Danny Seim, has a band Tracker as well as running FILMguerrero, spent whatever free time he didn’t have recently working on an album called ‘Veteran of the Loudness Wars’ by RemoteTreeChildren.
When you visit the band’s [...]

In one of those weird twists of coincidence, I was having dinner last night with Dave Dederer, he of The Presidents of The USA fame and now of Melodeo, when he brought up the Monochrome Set. It has been a while since I’d thought about these dour, post-punkers. After dinner I went home and dug [...]

Camille. Pic Banu Cennetoglu
More new music from the second of last week’s 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 13th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune in to [...]

My favorite local kick-ass, proto-punk outfit The Thermals, have changed teams moving from Seattle’s Sub Pop to Portland’s Kill Rock Stars. There’s a new album underway that should see the light of day around April 2009. After three albums on Sub Pop, ‘More Parts Per Million,’ Fuckin’ A’ and ‘The Body, The Blood, The Machine,’ [...]