Pic from SharkvsBear
I’m getting caught up with the promos finally. Here’s some more for you to check out. My favorite this week is from Dawn Landes. Listen up Portland, Dawn plays at Doug Fir on April 30th. In other news you may have noticed that we have added a new page that has a complete [...]
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Nilina Mason-Campbell hits up the opening night of Situation:
And he’s back! Back from tour and back into the party-starting swing of things. Yes, Wednesday marked the debut of the Gossip’s Brace Paine’s new club night Situations at Dunes. Whether it’s throwing impromptu MSTRKRFT and Spank Rock after-parties or his esteemed line of long-running dance [...]
Starbucks continues to struggle and is now looking to “examine all aspects of our business that are not directly related to our core” according to this article. This means that the first decision was to let go of Ken Lombard, the unpopular head of Starbuck’s entertainment division. That wasn’t unexpected, I covered this earlier this [...]
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Photo © Greg Wahl-Stephens. In the pic (l-r) Steve Mack (Grammys), Dave Allen (Pampelmoose), Barbara Mitchell (Portland Tribune), Mike Jones (CD Forge)
Nemo Design hosted The Northwest Chapter of the Grammy organization’s PDX In The Mix event and Dave (that would be me) was the moderator. Watch the video here. Podcast coming soon.
The panelists were Portia [...]
What the hell happened to you, record industry? You used to be so fun. One week away from the ‘official’ release of my already favorite album of 2008 and nothing peppy detected from Island. In fact, that is the saddest label artist profile I’ve ever seen. There’s roughly, I don’t know, ZERO content. Shame on [...]
A review from Nilina Mason-Campbell.
Operating sans set-list, The Raconteurs returned to Portland via the Wonder Ballroom last night with a set full of enough guitar solos and duels in an hour and a half to out-do a Stephen Malkmus set three times as long. The Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson handled the bulk of mic duties [...]
The free music revolution continues… Head on over to NIN.com for a free download of the new track “Discipline” (You can also remix it there). It’s funky fresh.