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The Zombies, who formed in England in 1961, have reformed to mark the 40th anniversary of Odessey & Oracle, an album that was released in 1968 and has been ranked 80 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The four surviving original [...]

When Barak Obama came to town a while back the coverage he received worldwide no doubt awakened many people to the fact that the 72,000 people who turned out to hear him talk were gathered in Portland’s Waterfront Park. Where Obama took the stage was at the southern end of the park nestled between the [...]

As readers of this blog may well know, Portland is the undisputed, independent music capitol of N. America…there I said it. Every night of the week you will find hundreds of bands performing in the hundreds of clubs around P-Town. It’s also well known that Portland is home to The Shins, Spoon, Modest Mouse, Stephen [...]

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I’ve read a few articles lately about how the price of gas is crimping many bands’ touring activities. I’m not surprised given that for a band to get from Portland to San Francisco and back, a round trip of 1,266 miles, a decent van loaded with equipment and band members might get 12 miles a [...]

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Thao performed yesterday on the Filter stage. I didn’t grab any of her live set but I did get to chat with her back stage. Listen to what she has to say about touring in England recently…
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Day 3 begins and it looks like the best day yet for music and the weather. Stay tuned.

Death Cab For Cutie Backstage

The kids hating on Adam Brody for some reason

Blue Scholars signing session

Meet the Blue Scholars

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So here’s a thought…today’s bill was strangely mellow. This morning (Saturday) got off to a quick start with Dead Confederates and Beirut but things slowed down really quickly. The New Pornographers clearly had forgotten to rehearse before turning up; they stumbled through several songs and gave us a grin, a nod and a wink but [...]

Once again the Moose has set up camp at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state. I think this is the 3rd year, maybe 4th, that I’ve made the 5 hour trek from Portland and it’s always worth it. Late into the night Friday the camping crowd was doing the vocal equivalent of the wave that [...]