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Fleet Foxes He Doesn’t Know Why from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

Crowd watching Matt & Kim at MusicFestNW. Pic ©Justin Kent
The New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM is dedicated to bringing listeners music, both local and national, that might not normally get on the station’s playlists. I am on air with Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM and all the music that we play can [...]

I came across the music blog music think tank last night and found an essay by Rhodri Marsden entitled Please Buy My Record: The Futility of Flogging Music. [Flogging is an English expression for selling.] I encourage all musicians to give it a read. Here’s an excerpt -
One thing that nearly all my bands [...]

New Music Hour from 94.7 and a locals-only HD channel
I was chatting with 94.7FM Program Director, Mark Hamilton, the other day about FM radio and how it used to be the place for everyone to discover new music. It’s no exaggeration to say that today music fans have many ways to hear the latest and [...]

The Associated Press just announced that soul giant Isaac Hayes has been found dead alongside a treadmill at his home in Memphis. He was 65. RIP. It’s ironic that Hayes’ web site has a picture of him and his friend Bernie Mac who also died on Saturday. Hayes just recently played the Portland Blues Festival.

For musicians, 1000 true fans may be the way to lift their sales and therefore their careers out of the flat plains of the Long Tail. Looking for information about 1000 fans, I entered ‘1000 friends’ as a search term in Google - it returned 12.2 million results. Here are the Google results.
In this [...]

About twice a year I find myself at a random party overhearing the same conversation: “What happened to good song writing? What happened to the song?” It’s at that point names like Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, or Roy Orbison appear and I head back to the keg. I mean, how the hell [...]

What do you say, Portlanders? We’ve got some fancy new containers but what are we going to do with all those leftover yellow plastic bins? One container can be used for glass, as everything else gets tossed into the new blue thingy with the wheels, but what about the rest of the yellow [...]