Jimi Hendrix: ‘You never told me he was that good’
Monday, August 9th, 2010On the the 40th anniversary of the great guitarist’s death, Ed Vulliamy speaks to the people who knew him best and unearths a funny, if driven, superstar
Archive for August, 2010
Pickathon 2010 is not your daddy’s Pickathon
Monday, August 9th, 2010Just in case you’re wondering who attends the annual Pickathon festival it’s probably not who you think.
The crowd for Typhoon
Heartless Bastards brought the rock
Bonnie Prince Billy and the Cairo Gang at Pickathon
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Pickathon 2010 Day 2 in pictures
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Click on the thumbnail for full size images.
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Pickathon 2010 Day 1 in pictures
Saturday, August 7th, 2010Click on the thumbnail for full size images.
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Pickathon 2010 coming together – pictures
Thursday, August 5th, 2010The day before the festival officially kicks off is crazy for the crew so I kept out of their hair and took some pics around the site.
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Pickathon Music Festival 2010 and the Best Line Up Yet
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Well kids, I’m not sure that the Pickathon Indie Roots Music Festival is quite the right title for what is an extraordinary, and a simply riotous collection, of some of the best independent music artists around. Yes ‘Roots’ is in the title, but don’t go letting your mind pigeonhole the festival as some kind of [...]
Portland, Oregon and the hegemony of the automobile
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010In the 11 years that I’ve lived here in Portland, it has been very disheartening to see the continual rise in single-passenger-only cars clogging our roads. Yes Portland is well known and famous for being one of the nation’s top bicycling cities, and our public transportation network is robust – yet the hegemony of the [...]
