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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

The Dandy Warhols return with a free MP3 from the new self-released album ‘Earth To The Dandy Warhols’
The Dandy Warhols - The World, The People, Together (Come On)

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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 [...]

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 [...]