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Meg, 1/2ALIVE’s resident photographer. ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
A post from Nilina Mason-Campbell. It’s Vancouver B.C theme week for me this week! I spent much of last week up in B.C. with but one question on my mind: is Vancouver, BC the next Portland? It seriously seems to be a city on the verge of exploding. There are [...]

Although it would be impossible to give someone a well concocted taste of Portland’s incredibly rich music community in one weekend, the peeps at PdxPopNow! have been baking up a 3 day FREE and ALL AGE festival for several years now that comes mighty close. It always features some of the cities most acclaimed [...]

Something cool in the inbox. What we have here is a cover of David Bowie’s Be My Wife by Richard Walters and Faultline. The original Bowie track is from one of his all time great albums, Low. Grab a copy, you won’t be disappointed.
Richard Walters and Faultline - Be My Wife

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(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) Times are tough for touring artists and Denny’s wants to help. Denny’s restaurants has just launched a unique new music program entitled Adopt-a-Band to provide free meals, promotional support, and concert after-parties to “adopted” bands on tour across the U.S.
The preferred choice of late-night dining crowds across the country and strongly [...]

Tyler Ferrin is a member of Portland supergroup (no, really, there are up to 10 of them on stage) Typhoon and co-founder of Boy Gorilla Records. He’s also known to throw down 2 hour freestyle rap sessions on long drives and boasts a keen knowledge of Super Nintendo games.
JR: What’s your power animal?
TF: Otter. [...]

Not only was I fortunate enough to catch up with Haily, Idaho’s Finn Riggins recently, I also got socked in the ribs a few times by the trio’s live set. It was a transcendent post-punk/post-epic 70’s rock experience. Having just returned from a 32 state tour, I found Cameron Bouiss (drums, steel drum, [...]

Grand Theft Auto IV sold 6 million copies in its first week at $60 a pop in the USA. Globally it brought in $500 million. That outstrips all of the first weeks music CD sales from top artists since 1991. Here’s the top 5 list of those week one sales in units not dollars:
1. ‘N [...]