If you consider rock music to still be in the doldrums (as I do) then there’s something to be had by latching on to those three crazy guys from North Carolina known as the Avett Brothers. Four Thieves Gone, their latest album, is a wonderful frenzied sonic assault with just the right mix of wry [...]

With a title like that you have to check it out. A Whale’s Vagina is french but you can translate the blog at the touch of a button. I prefer working with my mangled french although you can cheat easily when some of the links are in english.

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Well despite the naysayers and some negative coverage of the PDX Pop Now! Festival this all-volunteer, non-profit pulled it off again to apparently great acclaim. Let’s face it Portland wins hands down when you can have a festival that is free and open to all ages. Big ups to all involved.

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Adam Gnade, is it a man is it a band? Either way they perform tonight at Towne Lounge and they have a new tune for you to hear over at their MySpace site. Great stuff.

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Norfolk and Western. Ann Fox ©2006
On the last Friday of each month Barbara Mitchell and me along with the KEXP radio crew, promote a show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard just north of Seattle to expose some of Portland’s finest to Seattle’s music loving crowd. Our ambition is to have Seattle’s tastemakers understand what [...]

This week’s episode features music from Can, Captain Beefheart, Bob Marley and Brian Eno. Get the link here

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what about Call Me Mickey, I mean, really. Razzle.

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I’ve always had a fascination for Michael Mann’s movies. As the New York Times review of his latest effort Miami Vice points out his films are operatic in scale. Back in 1995 Al Pacino out “Al Pacino’d” himself by getting a little too hysterical in Heat but somehow Mann kept a firm hand on the [...]