Archive for the 'Portland' Category

Doubledutch release Gungle Dungn, CD Release Party, Holocene Aug 21st

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Yordan Bagnell of Typhoon and Dhani Rosa of Eskimo and Sons fame come together under the moniker Doubledutch. They’ve recorded an album due for release on August 31st entitled Gungle Dungn after the studio in which it was recorded. And in the spirit of utter and complete transparency Doubledutch explain the creative process that they [...]

SUPERTRASH 48-HR FILMFEST PORTLAND: The World Premiere of HEMPSTERS: PLANT THE SEED

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Thursday, August 14
Night Fix and Floating World Comics present Day One of
SUPERTRASH 48-HR FILMFEST: The World Premiere of HEMPSTERS: PLANT THE SEED featuring appearances by Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson
An entire weekend of films, indulgence and more
7 p.m. | $3 | 21 & over. More information here.
After breaking records in Feb 08 with 2000+ ticket [...]

Psycho Killer meets Billie Jean, a live mashup

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Puuurrrr…
Continuing with last weeks theme of the live mashup, Jon of Boy Eats Drum Machine has finished another mix of a cut we will be performing live on Saturday August 16th at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom as part of show that’s all about reconstructing songs by the Talking Heads and The Cure. Here we present ‘PsychoBillie’ [...]

Jolie Holland, free MP3, new album

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Click to play. Right click/control click to download movie
I am really looking forward to the new album from Jolie Holland. I spent time with her last weekend at Pickathon and had a great conversation about “being in” the music industry from an artists POV. We share the same ideas of what that exactly means. Anyway, [...]

Does The World Need Another Indie Rock Band? Discuss

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The UK’s Independent newspaper asks the question. It’s too long of an article to summarize efficiently so I encourage you to read it here and then discuss.
Also I’ll send a free Gang of Four 7″ single with a Shepard Fairey artwork cover to the person that tells me what the image above is parodying [...]

Aaliyah, Talking Heads, Van Halen, Cure Mash Up with me on bass

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

My good friend Jon Ragel of Boy Eats Drum Machine invited me to “join” his band for a show at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom on Saturday August 16th. The premise being that it is a Talking Heads and Cure cover show! Ha! But put Jon and Dave in a room and you’re not going to get [...]

Facebook and me, we are not getting along

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

I received yet another lovely notice from Facebook today about “possible infringement” not “actual” but “possible.” Read on -
Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement
We have removed your video entitled “Cut Copy, party at Dave’s, Nemo puts up the posters” uploaded at 2:23pm April 29th, 2008. We did this because we learned that your video might include [...]

Langhorne Slim, Video and Live Photos

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Langhorne Slim Live in the Galaxy Barn from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Two years ago I first saw Langhorne Slim perform live and I’ve been a fan ever since. Over the weekend I spent time hanging out with him and his lady as well as his band mates Paul Defiglia and Malachi DeLorenzo aka the War [...]