Seaweed – Saturday @ Dante’s (1 SW 3rd Ave)
It’s not a surprise to me that these punks from Tacoma are still playing music together – it’s that they ever broke up at all. To see them in concert and to see their band photos (see right), they look like five people who found each other [...]
The overhead shade canopies going up at Pickathon 2009
I have two annual Northwest music festival rituals – Sasquatch and Pickathon. It’s easy when you think about it..two extremely well organized festivals that sell you camping along with your tickets, and with lineups that draw from the local, national and international music pools. This year’s Pickathon [...]
Week number 14 of the Pampelmoose New Music Hour radio show on WOXY.com. This week you’ll hear Bat For Lashes, Florence & The Machine, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Blitzen Trapper, Alela Diane and more. The show airs twice a week – every Tuesday at 3PM PST and 6PM EST and every Sunday at 8AM PST [...]
Image from Slate.com
I found an interesting article on Slate today. Written by Jonah Weiner it is titled Spinning In The Grave and it’s his take on the slow but steady demise of music magazines. Here’s some excerpts:
1. There are fewer superstars, and the same musicians show up on every magazine cover.
Say Beyoncé—or Kanye, or Kelly [...]
With summer festivals becoming de rigueur for music fans and bands, alike, it is obviously becoming increasingly hard to put on a singular event. The lineups for most of the blue chip events – Coachella, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Treasure Island, et. al. – often look like carbon copies of one another, with some bands [...]
Although the folks at Twitter have put together a fine deck of slides for businesses who are still struggling with how to use the Twitter platform, the exact same insights can be used by bands, musicians and artists in any medium. It also helps understand personal tweeting too but I prefer to see Twitter as [...]
PDX Pop Now! 2009 – Friday through Sunday @ Rotture (320 SE 2nd Ave)
Did you have anything on your agenda this weekend that didn’t involve spending all day at a club in inner Southeast Portland watching band after amazing band perform at no cost to you and yours? If so, I would suggest canceling it [...]
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Week number 13 of the Pampelmoose New Music Hour radio show on WOXY.com. Week 13 and hot on the back of the news of WOXY moving to Austin TX, this week you’ll hear Underworld, Greenladies, Hope Sandoval, The Mint Chicks and more. The show airs twice a week – every [...]
