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 [...]

(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 [...]

Coachella Pic ©Justin Kent
Todd Berry writes: In 2007, MusicFestNW began using SonicBids to accept applications for showcases, a move that spurred some controversy around Portland and the greater Northwest, and they are continuing to use SonicBids for this year’s festival. Personally, I think it’s disheartening to see MFNW head in this direction, but as a [...]

Portland bands have to pay a third party, Sonicbids, to apply for a slot at this year’s MusicFestNW [this may have been the case last year too.] You’d think after the debacle with the CMJ conference where folks paid Sonicbids to enter the lottery and apparently no one from CMJ bothered to listen to the [...]

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, [...]

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Horsefeathers perform live at Portia and Slim Moon’s BBQ from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
I spent Sunday afternoon out in Washington state, near Battle Ground actually. Portia from Kill Rock Stars and her husband Slim held a BBQ at their house and invited many people who had at least a tenuous connection to the indie music [...]

Post from Nilina Mason-Campbell:
It seems like everyone’s becoming fanboys for Australia’s Midnight Juggernauts - well at least Justice and Cut Copy are (both having taken them on tour and talking them up in interviews) and it seems like in turn the Juggernauts are fanboys for French musician Sebastian Tellier (or at least when commissioned for [...]