Archive for October, 2006

Alan Singley: Portland’s Burt Bacharach?

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

I first heard Alan Singley at the after party for the first PDX Pop Now in 2004. He was sitting on Larry Crane’s back porch singing and playing the guitar for a bunch of happy, exhausted people. The song he was playing (and, it turns out, simultaneously writing), These Trees Are For Resting, ended up [...]

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the portland seattle kexp connection

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Fernando
Every last Friday of the month, KEXP presents a showcase of Portland Bands at The Sunset called PDXplore. It’s curated by our own John Richards, Gang of Four’s Dave Allen and Portland Tribune music writer Barbara Mitchell. The event is designed to highlight emerging artists from the burgeoning Portland scene. The showcase is a great [...]

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meet greg, our new moose contributor

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Greg Borenstein has put his aspirations and fears to one side and joined the Moose! He will bring you more Portland music than you can possibly hope to listen to. This is what he has to say, in his own words - “As far as what I’ll be doing: Not Just Another Music Blog (NJAMB, [...]

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more laughing gasping

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

More about the new Wet Confetti album, Audibot and Tables Turned, College tours etc….over at Pitchfork.
And a great review over at Fensepost.

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neko case on austin city limits

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Live from Austin City Limits

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me, pitchfork, wet confetti and faux-hoax

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I had a chat with the nice folks over at Pitchfork. You can read about all of my plans here. And while you are there you can get a free MP3 of Sorry Dinosaur from the new Wet Confetti CD.

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wet confetti laughing gasping

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Mike plays the drums damned well but he’s really tall.
The brand, spanking new album from Wet Confetti came out yesterday. It’s called Laughing Gasping and should be available now in all your neighborhood music shops. Or buy it from the Moose here. Also you could pick it up at their upcoming CD release party with [...]

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mark baumgarten, so farewell then

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Mark Baumgarten [photo:Jason Quigley]
Mark Baumgarten, Willamette Week’s music editor, has thrown in the towel. He’s moving back to Minneapolis to run a new magazine called Metro. Here’s his sign off over at Local Cut. “I’m generally not one for the third person business, but this post required me to be in the headline and I [...]

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