In what may be the lamest endorsement ever for a young band, the night I first heard the Old Believers I sent an expletive filled email to my friend Arya excitedly proclaiming that this was the first Portland music that I was sure to share with my (future) kids. Why so? Because the song I [...]
Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell If Sunday night’s show at Worksound was offered by a travel company, I think the brochure would read something like this: “Out of the snow and hail of the outdoors and into the tundra.” Yep, that was pretty much the name of the game when it came to entering a very chilly [...]
Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell Like a sticky mid-western summer heat, the buzz was thick all day and all night long that Sleater-Kinney would reunite at Holocene last night during the Reading Frenzy benefit. The stars were seemingly aligned – what with Corin Tucker headlining with a performance and Carrie Brownstein presenting a screening of her Thunder [...]
Photo ©Nilina Mason-Campbell From the moment I heard the carefee epicness of Breakfast Mountain‘s “Dunn [Not Done],” I began picturing a spaced out skate video to accompany it, full of lens flare and adventure. And that’s what I love about the jams Portlander Zack Osterlund creates. Specifically how even without lyrics helping to paint a [...]
Photo ©Nilina Mason-Campbell What’s happened at the Doug Fir? I mean I know there’s been some staff turn-over of late on the booking side of the venue, but apparently the lighting side too. As early as the Thermals’ pair of performances at the beginning of December I noticed red light being much more prevalent, but [...]
Photo by Pavla Kopecna My introduction to Swedish quintet Those Dancing Days came by way of the Daniel Eskils directed clip for their tune “Hitten.” From the moment it began rolling I was convinced these girls had merely been cast to portray a band for the purpose of the video as they couldn’t possibly be [...]
Mae Shi – Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell The first I ever heard of Los Angeles’ Mae Shi was during last year’s SXSW in relation to their spree of gigs in Austin. After remarking to Dean Spunt of garage-rockers No Age about how it seemed like Lightspeed Champion was going for the record in terms of amount [...]
Lykke Li @ NTBR Part 4 – “Hustlin’” from Drew Innis on Vimeo. If you haven’t taken Lykke Li‘s perpetual set-closing cover of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick It” as a hint, the Swedish songstress really loves her hip-hop and rap. Further evidence? Her performing a stripped down version of Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’” [...]
