On August 15th, Chicago’s Berry play their hometown and then hit the road, or rather the train tracks, as they tour the country by train to avoid the high price of touring by van now that gas prices are still flirting around the $4.00 mark. Good idea. The band’s Paul Goodenough says the tour poses [...]
Pickathon 2008 - A Video Sampler from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
A five minute sampler of sets from Langhorne Slim, Johnny Connolly, Crooked Still, Hackensaw Boys and Sean Hayes at Pickathon 2008.
Jolie Holland live at Pickathon 2008 from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Jolie Holland played a fine dark and sultry set last night. Her band featured members of Norfolk and Western, Dave Depper and Rachel Blumberg.
Photo: Andrew Henderson/The New York Times
For all you budding concert and tour promoters out there here’s a great article on the trials and tribulations of Sean Carlson and his cross-country tour, the Fuck Yeah Tour, which wrapped up recently. It ain’t easy but it sure is fun….
Day 2 and the kids are still turning up in droves so we must all be doing the right thing. Tonight some of them will perform downtown and I’m looking forward to it. Casey and I had a class this morning on rock journalism and had the budding rock critics write a review of a [...]
The Road Trip to Pendleton’s Rock Camp from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Road trip! A video of my journey through the Columbia Gorge to Pendleton in Eastern Oregon. Soundtrack by Glass Candy and Mauxuam.
This week the Third Annual Pendleton Rock Camp takes place. It’s a week-long event and I am out here in Eastern Oregon volunteering along with members of Point Juncture, WA, Laura Gibson, Casey Jarman, Paul Collins of Beirut and many more. It’s free for the kids and they love it. This morning, Day 1, I [...]
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Eat Skull, White Fang, White Rainbow, Menomena, Panther, Honey Owens, Starfucker, Horse Feathers, Southern Belle, M Ward, Thermals, Fist Fite, Malkmus. And yet there is more than just white indie, folk, electronic, alt-rock in Portland. Where were the Lifesavas for instance?